why don't you guys use ammeters to measure how much power is actually being used by the chargin battery and how much power is absorbed by the others. Or use a device that measures the instantaneous voltage and current every second or so and have it graph V*I of all three batteries. The energy is the area under the graph. Judging energy using only the battery voltage doesn't seem very scientific.
Don't forget that current is not energy just like voltage is not energy.
You can do this, but it is very tough to do without slowing the time
dynamics down so that the signal doesn't pulse. Removing the pulses can
be done with a buffer - a capacitor. The motor's nature is to be dynamic -
so what you have to do is drain some energy off as DC and measure that
excess. Once you have it, you adjust to drawing off as much as possible
and have the motor still run. This is your estimate which you divide by the
amount of time, known as the integration period, and start integrating
again for the next value.
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To: Plengo
You really want your goal to be "Science" put before "Finishing
the Project". To do this you want the instrumentation and control
power supplies to be independent of the "core circuit activity"
until you have proven or have an estimate of how much extra energy
has come from the core circuit (/time). Reed relays and opto's can do the
isolation. This leaves the overunity energy intact in the core circuit.
Raw transistors don't isolate (especially bipolar transistor) so for this
part of the project you simply have the transistors drive reed relays,
that do the actual signal switching.
Now once you have proven,the overunity energy and approximately how
much, you can design the control and instrumentation circuitry with merged
power supply with the core circuit that use just the sufficient fraction of
what is being created...that has to take place before the unit is claimed
to be full overunity – but it need not be the first goal. It’s the overunity
of the core circuit that is important, but technically the control and
instrumentation need to be “paid for†from the core overunity eventually.
– leaving user energy.
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By the way, the source and charge battery that are back-to-back you
might try placing power diodes backward across these batteries. Current in
one direction discharges one battery or the other and the extra diodes
would provide a “non-discharge†pathway. (If it doesn’t break circuit
operation), that is.
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It's very easy to convert an old spare slow PC computer, into a
process control computer, and it can be somewhat
easier to program in your favorite HLL,-then it is to program
a microcontroller. The input and output bits can then be read
and written into something called a Port Expander. I've done several
projects in this way and they are a lot of fun. If you can control a process
manually, then it's easy to control it by computer. Let me know if
you would like to do this and I can send you a port expander circuit
expandable to any number of Input and Output signal bits.
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In the long term - gross battery voltage increases are state of charge
increases, but only in the long term - assuming the batteries are functioning
normally.
Also, if the circuit works as advertised then the control microcomputer
can be used to draw off the excess energy and dissipate it in a load
(while measuring the total amount). This will need to happen
by some method if it is functioning.
:S:MarkSCoffman