My Solar powered Bedini mistake?

This is a load test of a 15 Watt solar panel with no Bedini, no capacitor, and with or without a battery. The results were interesting.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Bedini
• SSG
• Newman
• motor
• solar
• energy
• electronics

[marthale7]

Did you convert the fan to be a bedini, or is it just a standard fan?

[Lidmotor]

It is just a 12 volt fan. That is what I found interesting was that it ran so well straight off that solar panel. I have thought of converting it to a Bedini but now have decided to just use it the way it is.

[marthale7]

Ok, I am SUPER impressed with this regulator, I have been running for 24 hours straght with my large battery, charging up 2 9V batteries at a time, that babby just works the main battery is down to 12.10 from 12.22 after this many days...

Very impressive

[Lidmotor]

Good news. I got mine in the mail today-- finally. I burned up the first two regulators and my Bedini project really relies on that thing. Like you, I have become very fond of the way it works. I will be very very careful with the one I just got. We need to start doing record keeping and performance testing on it to see just how much it is helping.

[Drevtoobe]

"You can get measurable energy from water, it is simply the water pressure times the water flow rate."

I am going to be nit-picky and correct myself. It should read:

"You can get measurable POWER from water, it is simply the water pressure times the water flow rate."

And of course, the energy is the power times the time. Duh! lol

[Drevtoobe]

You could even emulate a transistor with a water system.

You can get measurable energy from water, it is simply the water pressure times the water flow rate. When you look at an electrical circuit it can help if visualize it like flowing water. Usually the top of the schematic is the supply voltage rail, and the current flows downwards, dropping in voltage through resistors, transistors, etc, until it reaches the bottom supply rail, which is at ground potential (no more water pressure left!).

[Drevtoobe]

A very long length of narrow pipe is identical to a resistor. The water experiences turbulence as it flows through the pipe and burns off energy. If you measure the water pressure in the pipe at the start, middle, and end, you will notice that the water pressure drops the further you go along the pipe, exactly like an electrical resistor drops voltage. The pipe is literally giving off heat when water is flowing through it.

[Drevtoobe]

You know when you are in the basement and you turn the valve to cut off the water too fast to the house and you hear banging in the pipes? That's because the water flowing through the pipes has momentum, and you get a bang when the moving water smashes into the closed valve. This is exactly the same as an inductor discharging in a Bedini motor. There is a brief spike of very high water pressure as the water current drops to zero. Remember the water pressure is identical to the voltage.