As Lidmotor says, the loading is crucial. Really, what we're doing is running the machines at all times, as though they have a load. As though they are doing a job of work and not just running themselves.
If you think about it...if the circuit puts out more energy than it takes in, the excess can only charge say a cap or battery so far...and then it has to go somewhere.
In Romero's case, this was a build up of heat from his DC converter, which in and of itself isn't crucial to the design. What it is crucial to, is removing excess energy that has no place to go. Notice how he keeps an eye (or finger) on the temperature of the converter in the self run video.
The whole system reacts differently to no load than with a load. What that load is, or where it is most efficient, is determined by the excess generated. In Lidmotor's case, he's found an LED works fine to soak the energy. In Romero's case, it was a 12V bulb. In an industrial machine, it may be a block full of houses.
Here's an example, hopefully quite succinct and showing what I mean by load.
It's one of my White Crow circuits, powered by a wall adapter to try and rejuvenate a puffed out 12V house alarm battery that I got from Freecycle. Watch the bulb and how things change with that load applied. I hope it demonstrates load running
YouTube - ‪Pulse motor - amazing current effect‬‏
If you think about it...if the circuit puts out more energy than it takes in, the excess can only charge say a cap or battery so far...and then it has to go somewhere.
In Romero's case, this was a build up of heat from his DC converter, which in and of itself isn't crucial to the design. What it is crucial to, is removing excess energy that has no place to go. Notice how he keeps an eye (or finger) on the temperature of the converter in the self run video.
The whole system reacts differently to no load than with a load. What that load is, or where it is most efficient, is determined by the excess generated. In Lidmotor's case, he's found an LED works fine to soak the energy. In Romero's case, it was a 12V bulb. In an industrial machine, it may be a block full of houses.
Here's an example, hopefully quite succinct and showing what I mean by load.
It's one of my White Crow circuits, powered by a wall adapter to try and rejuvenate a puffed out 12V house alarm battery that I got from Freecycle. Watch the bulb and how things change with that load applied. I hope it demonstrates load running
YouTube - ‪Pulse motor - amazing current effect‬‏
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