Imhotep Radiant Oscillator -- Solar powered

[breakdanc3]

It might seem a bit redundant .. but i would definitely use a solar powered light system to light my fish tank .. it would turn on automatically and turn off with the rising and setting of the sun. thats one thing you could do with it ..

[hunthard3254]

Dude all that RF is messing with your camera. Thats pretty cool.

[MattBlytheTheOne]

With a 40 watt solar panel and an amp draw you could easily step up that voltage to power multiple bulbs. A 555 dc/ac converter is one way...

[Lidmotor]

In my next video I use a 2 watt solar panel. I just used the big one the day I made this video because it was handy and I wanted to make the point that solar energy can be used to power the device. The real news here is that this thing charges up another battery while it lights the light.

[MattBlytheTheOne]

the real news is it doesn't matter if you use a 2w or a 40w solar panel! the circuit will still only draw the same current :)

[MattBlytheTheOne]

have you tried directing the sunlight onto your solar panel using mirrors? or glass focusing lenses? apparently it ups the effeciency of the solar panel 100 fold!

[cribcat1]

In my opinion a combination of all of the technologies that we have available such as Bedini, Ecklin, Jonson, HHO, solar, semiconductors, parabolic reflectors can turn the home and car into a self sufficient energy plant. Good work... keep going!

[Careica]

So? You said that your solar panel give you 40W

So, there is nothing special that it can light up those bulbs...Or what Im missing?

[Lidmotor]

Check out my next video. I run this on a small 2 watt panel.

[Drevtoobe]

Hey for what it's worth, I am almost sure that your capacitor is a 300-volt 36,000 PICO-farad capacitor. I could be wrong but if I am correct that means that it is actually quite a small capacitor. One think for your toolkit that would be very interesting would be something like a 30-volt 50,000 micro-farad capacitor. It might be a bit larger than your 36,000 pico-farad capacitor and would be a much better match for your solar panel and store a million times more energy for a given voltage.

[Drevtoobe]

Another little idea and I may be repeating myself: Note that you have a "classic" batt charging circuit in this setup, the coil discharges through a single diode, or sometimes a FWBR.

Instead of looking at the charging batt voltage rise, wouldn't it be more interesting to actually know how many watts of power are going into the charging batt?

To do this you just swap out the charging batt for a big cap in parallel with a resistor and measure the voltage across the resistor. As easy as pie!

[Lidmotor]

Thanks. I like easy as pie.  This invention by Imhotep and Dr. Peter Lindemann is sweet and easy ---- and it works.

[Drevtoobe]

In case you did not know, the power is simply the voltage-squared divided by the resistance. You assume that the capacitor is large enough to smooth out the pulses from the coil so that the voltage is near-DC. You make an accurate measurement of the resistance ahead of time with your multimeter. Then you make an accurate DC voltage measurement, crunch the numbers and you know exactly how much power would be being pumped into the charging battery if it were in the circuit. Exactly.

[Drevtoobe]

It may be counter-intuitive for you but the big capacitor makes the voltage spikes from the coil completely disappear. They only make the capacitor voltage nudge up a tiny little bit when they fire. That's why you can make a very accurate power measurement, the resistor is simply bleeding off the power coming from the spikes and they are equal to each other. The battery muffles the spikes a lot, but not nearly as well as the big capacitor.

[dodoshlodo]

thanks, that really helps me to measure power on my Bedini

[Drevtoobe]

Yes, that little trick will allow you to measure now much power the Bedini or Newman motor is able to send to the charging battery. It only works for coils with collapsing fields though, and will not work for external pick-up coils that generate power from magnets on the rotor flying by.

If you are a keener and want to measure the actual power consumption of the motor, then try this:

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It may look a bit unusual, but it should work just fine.

[marthale7]

sweet :) I have an extra 555 laying around... May have to go shopping..