David Bowling's Continuous Charging Device

[hartiberlin]

Seems the principle is pretty easy:
He is using the Newman sparkgap principle because he is using a
DC motor ? ( have not listened it fully yet) in series with the drive batteries to charge
empty batteries.

So he is using the sparking commutator of the motor to
convert the free electrons that show up at the commutator switching
and uses this via the produced radio frequency bursts to charge up his empty
batteries in series with the motor.

You just only have to modify a 12 Volts DC motor a bit to have the commutator graphite brushes
to make the tips a bit more needle like, so they will spark more
and don?t use a capcitor across the commutator, so that it does not suppress the
sparking..

You basically convert graphite ( carbon) to electricity on a direct oxidation conversion process.
You use up in the process some graphite but it is a very efficient process.

Same principle that happens in the Newman machines.

Regards, Stefan.

[hartiberlin]

So basically you can do this yourself, if you got a good sparking commutator
12 Volts DC motor, hook it up to 2 x 12 Volts batteries in series as the source, so your source is
24 Volts DC and then use the 12 Volts motor in series with an empty 12 Volts battery in
series as the load for the 24 Volts DC source.

The sparking motor will produce enough RF ( radio fequency) bursts from the the "burning" of the graphite brush to
charge up the empty 12 Volts battery very fastly.

Then you can switch again the batteries and keep all of them full
all the time this way by cycling them and have the mechanical output of the motor
for free !

Pretty easy.
But you use up some graphite brushes this way and maybe also some
copper inside the motor commutator.

Regards, Stefan.

P.S: It took me about 20 years to find this out and understand it fully, cause Joe Newman himself did not understand
it and was leading us into the wrong direction...

[hartiberlin]

P.S: Did I now prevent him to get a patent by openly explaining it how it works ?

Sorry David...

Now that I have listened to the full interview,
it is clear that it is working this way.

David admitted in the interview, that he did not yet understand it himself, how it works,
so at least he now knows.


He said, that when he loaded his motor mechanically more by slowing it down,
that the empty battery gets charged up even faster.
Well, yes, that is also very easy to understand as you draw a bigger current from
the 24 Volts DC source you will also generate much more sparking and rf bursts at the
motor commutator and this way also charge up your empty battery even faster.

Many thanks to David for showing us this successful system.

I also had already planed from my Newman motor studies to buy soon an electro scooter and modify the battery
system to incoporate such a direct carbon conversion process and now
this is a good idea to do it just this way as David did it.
This way I hope to be able to ride the electro scooter much longer or infinitely
without needing it to reacharge.
Maybe only changing the graphite brushes from the motor once a month.

Regards, Stefan.

[fletcher]

stefan & miki .. if you are right [& I have no reason to doubt you at this stage] couldn't this simple graphite conversion process be used for just about all low voltage electrical motor applications but instead of changing batteries or swapping them while another is charging off the grid, just replace a snap on graphite brush kit every once in a while ? You might wear out brushes a lot more quickly than usual but afterall graphite is cheap & plentiful IINM so wouldn't that make great economic sense as opposed to buying & replacing batteries which are relatively expensive ?! - why hasn't someone actually done this or have they ? - excuse my ignorance !

[TheOne]

If putting a load make the charging process better, just connect another generator on the shaft of the generator and recharge the other batteries faster!!