@ Pirate88179

Quote from: Pirate88179 on June 08, 2009, 12:19:45 AM
This cap will charge up in a matter of hours, not days.Bill

Wow! That EB must be generating a lot of current. Thanks.

Quote from: Thaelin on June 08, 2009, 02:55:44 AM
Pirate:
   On that camera, could you give me some specs as to its brand and model. I am impressed with the output. I bought one and it looks like I am filming from the back woods somewhere its so far away. Cant do a close up for squat.

thay

Sure.  It is the Traveler 5MP HD Digital Video Camera.  If you have the same, or similar model, there is a macro switch on the right side of the lens as viewed from behind the camera as you are using it.  One way is macro for close-up, the other way is for distance which with my lens is anything over like 4 feet.
Now that you mention it, I just realized I videoed my 400 led vid with the macro switch on which may easily explain why the light is cut down and the leds in the distance (about 6 feet) look out of focus.  Damn, I learn something new every day.

Let me know if your is this one and I can tell you a few things I have learned about it.  It really is the best bang for the buck camera I have seen I just don't like it for low light conditions but, maybe if I had the macro switch in the correct position.......

Bil

Quote from: xee2 on June 08, 2009, 03:14:21 AM
@ Pirate88179

Wow! That EB must be generating a lot of current. Thanks.

It really isn't.  I believe the secret is these supercaps.  I think the energy, as seen in some of the scope shots posted by Jeanna and Jim, spikes here and there...comes and goes, ebbs and flows...and I believe these caps charge to the highest volts and current they are exposed to.  It is hard to explain since I don't really understand all about it but I think these caps fill with whatever the EB can put out at various levels and then the cap gives it back what we need when we need it.  I am getting much more out of the caps than the EB could ever keep up with alone.  Of course, that means I will empty the cap eventually so I need bigger and many more caps, ha ha.

Bill

@ Bill

Quote from: Pirate88179 on June 07, 2009, 03:55:08 PM
Jim:

Thanks for your kind words on my latest video.  Yes, I have 2 10 farad sc's.  I can short them, and place one on the EB and it will be fully charged in less than an hour.  I have hooked them in parallel to increase amps and series to increase voltage, either way works fine.  That why I used them in parallel when I ran the Fuji the first time.  I did not want higher volts as that might fry the Fuji so, I need more grunt and got it.

I have to say those 10F caps which I used to think were huge storage devices, now seem like small toys compared to Gadget's 650F cap I am playing with now.  I hope you can get one of these sometime Jim.

Thanks again for watching my videos and commenting.  I really do appreciate that.

Bill

Thats quite allright Bill, I enjoy see your YouTube videos on your NS and JT research.
excellent mate.

jim

@all,
Today I decided to do something, that no-one has done to my knowledge in the last couple of years on this NS forum.

I decided to make one of those Stubblefield Composit Earth Batteries.

I traced a circle on the copper plate and the steel plate, then cut them out with my trusty tinsnips.
The hole is doug, the disks fit snuggly.
Tomorrow it will be assemble time, due to the lack of daylight.
Here are a few photos.
Help needed with this, I need to ask some questions later.

0884 = The hole
0873 = Coppersheet with 10 1/2" dinner plate as the former
0877 = Starting the cut in the copper sheet
0880 = Drawing the disk onto the steel sheet
0882 = Beginning the cut in the steel plate (thin steel)
0884 = Last of the cutting (until next time)
0885 = Both disks, what they look like flat on the ground
0886 = How this composite battery should look like, just the two disks
hmmm  this is the profile, last photo


jim

@Bill,

It won't be long before you are able to run all those LEDs for 24 hours 7 days a week.

Quote from: Pirate88179 on June 08, 2009, 04:36:34 AM
It really isn't.  I believe the secret is these supercaps.  I think the energy, as seen in some of the scope shots posted by Jeanna and Jim, spikes here and there...comes and goes, ebbs and flows...and I believe these caps charge to the highest volts and current they are exposed to.  It is hard to explain since I don't really understand all about it but I think these caps fill with whatever the EB can put out at various levels and then the cap gives it back what we need when we need it.  I am getting much more out of the caps than the EB could ever keep up with alone.  Of course, that means I will empty the cap eventually so I need bigger and many more caps, ha ha.

Bill

Reading this you are able to charge your SC in less than an hour, (wicked that), ok if you had a timing device that could automatically switch between 3 caps, working on a rotating cap basis, then thats it.

have 2 caps on the EB charging, the other is discharging, at the end of the hour, it is switched back to the EB, then next in line is switched through to the JT etc.

jim