SSG-No Bloody Secrets

[MarkE]

I agree with what Tinman has shown here.

My SSG using 2 new motorcycle batteries really cranked out the rpm's.  I was thrilled with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfprTzG5SY4

BUT, after several battery swaps (charging battery/run battery) it would not work well anymore.  I stuck both batteries on a
standard battery charger and...I could never get them to come back...at least I got the core charge back when i turned them in.

The only thing I did not try was to use supercaps instead of batteries.  In my other experiments, it appeared that these capture high spikes really well and probably in a more efficient manner than those lead acid bats.  I might get around to trying this one day, I don't know if anyone has done this yet but...
I am not getting my hopes up.  My guess is that they will last longer and for more cycles than the bats but...eventually, more energy will have to be added from an outside source.

Bill

That's right:  Capacitors are better at capturing current pulses than electrochemical batteries.  A couple of well connected capacitors can drop the peak pulse voltage down by a factor of 50:1 or more which is all good for efficiency.  The SSG is as in the figure I posted earlier just a power converter built out of kinetic art.  It is not a particularly good one.