Little Beam's Father-- 5 Day Test
Uploader Comments (Lidmotor)
All Comments (11)
-
I'm glad you were able to get this going so fast.
-
Paul-- The SEC does not transmit wirelessly very far. I don't have a LUX meter yet. You can find Doc's circuits at Stiffler Scientific
-
killzpwnzOred----I was just thinking tonight about recovering energy from the light bulbs in my house with solar cells. It wouldn't be much but it all adds up.
-
5 Stars! Fantastic! You know I believe that "energy recovery" is as important or more important then simply trying to produce lots of it. I often times leave a couple of batteies hooked up to a large solar panel sitting on my desktop. The CFL above me does charge the batteries. I need the light to conduct business anyway and although I am not getting more out then I am putting in, I am able to recover some of the light that is falling onto my desktop and therefore able to charge a couple of AA
Excellent work Lidmotor.
Very Nice looking setup.
GBluer 2 years ago
GBluer---Thanks. I was trying to get this as close to an exact replication as I could.
Lidmotor 2 years ago
Thats smart! Direct recovery to the batt is much better than via solarcells.. Nice work!
InventorGadget 2 years ago
InventorGadget----You can do both. The SEC 15-3 in this video has a "recovery straight to the battery" feed back loop as well as the little solar panel. They work well together.
Lidmotor 2 years ago
Great talking with you.
I finished building this last night. I believe my 8 dollar 9 led flash light out preforms this, but the one wire, and no wire energy transfer is just amazing. I have started trying to tune this bad boy it pulls from 25 - 50 millamps in my tests. The real comparison is the number of joules in the batteries the large 6V batteries have a good number of them compared to the AAA batteries in most leds.
marthale7 2 years ago
Mart ---Thanks for the call. Sounds like you are settling in nicely down there. This my first experience with a small 6v SLA and it is working quite well. It's a good "Joule box". lol. A 30 milliamp draw on a SEC is about right but on this feedback circuit you can still get good ligth for 1/3 of that. Tuning is the hard part and without a spectrum analyser to see the peaks it is hit and miss thing. The lights come on at different peaks but just a few are efficient frequencies.
Lidmotor 2 years ago