Hi All,
I just put together a 3 battery Tesla switch based on Nityesh Schnaderbeck's tri-symmetrical design shown in the following thread ....http://www.energyscienceforum.com/sh...ll=1#post18655.
I modified the circuit to power a single load while swapping the three 12 volt LABs. The load is a small SSG charging another 12 volt battery that runs the switching circuit. The SSG also has a genny coil powering a single LED. The circuit has a total of twelve optos switching twelve MJE3055T transistors. Four are on at a time, then the next four, and finally the last four all in rotation.
The circuit runs, but some of the transistors heat up and have too much forward voltage drop to run the load all the full difference of potential of the batteries. The SSG also runs too slow on the reduced voltage and doesn't charge well as a result.
When I tried this while manually switching the batteries with direct connections, the SSG ran very well charging the extra battery with a 100MA LED panel attached to the battery. So I have ordered 3 relays to replace the optos and transistors to eliminate the heat and voltage drops. I think this will run as well as the manual switching.
I'll post an update when I get the parts and get it running.
I just put together a 3 battery Tesla switch based on Nityesh Schnaderbeck's tri-symmetrical design shown in the following thread ....http://www.energyscienceforum.com/sh...ll=1#post18655.
I modified the circuit to power a single load while swapping the three 12 volt LABs. The load is a small SSG charging another 12 volt battery that runs the switching circuit. The SSG also has a genny coil powering a single LED. The circuit has a total of twelve optos switching twelve MJE3055T transistors. Four are on at a time, then the next four, and finally the last four all in rotation.
The circuit runs, but some of the transistors heat up and have too much forward voltage drop to run the load all the full difference of potential of the batteries. The SSG also runs too slow on the reduced voltage and doesn't charge well as a result.
When I tried this while manually switching the batteries with direct connections, the SSG ran very well charging the extra battery with a 100MA LED panel attached to the battery. So I have ordered 3 relays to replace the optos and transistors to eliminate the heat and voltage drops. I think this will run as well as the manual switching.
I'll post an update when I get the parts and get it running.
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