Tesla Switch need help

[Groundloop]

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[plengo]

@Groundloop,

yes I tried with other battery types. The lead-acid is the best to receive those high voltage spikes and convert them into real voltage and charge. The other batteries will simply get depleted faster and produce lost of "ghost" voltages.

I know about destroying the battery, but here is the thing, my worse battery "B" (long ago I kill it when playing with SSG) is now my BEST in receiving this HV and converting it to real power. It is simply amazing. I "cold boiled" it once and I think that's the secret.

BTW, good job on your designs. I am still going to play a little bit with the relays (I bought some good ones on jamenco) and after that I will try your circuit.

Fausto.

[Groundloop]

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[plengo]

Some observations that i have:

- the batteries are depleting in this one node setup, but, they are never depleted totally. It is always producing enough energy back to run it again and generate watts for hours and days.
- faster switching is not necessarily the best. What seams to matter is that the destination battery gets some HV pulses and the source battery IS drainned so that it allows the charges to move or better, to resonate.
- impedance matching is very important, without it the source battery only drains very fast.
- There is a difference in the kind of electricity that is collected on my B3 and B2 (see drawing above) and the using a capacitor at B3 does not work as well as using a NIMH. B3 will have a "ghost" voltage but that voltage is changing the dynamics of the whole circuit.
- Switching the batteries back and forth FASTER is better.
- Having frequency pulsing IS important. So there are two things here: pulsing and switching the batteries or source of current.
- 4+ days now and still generating power with almost depleted batteries (technicaly they ARE depleted).
- The high voltage seams to be the same when B1 is giving 12v or 2v. Very strange.
- The voltages between B1 and B2 will be balancing each other. So starting with a higher voltage in one and lower in another will first cause a fast balancing and them you will be able to see some of the effects above.
- The residual voltages I have now are consistent with the drop voltage of the LEDs (load). Hmmm.

I can barely wait to start testing with 3 batteries (2 nodes).

Fausto.

ps: 4 day video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8TqhPbGDUE

[maxc]

You can try and make Tesla switch with the "back EFM recycler circuit" no diodes and FETs. Can't find those threads at the moment.