Hi Mikey,
Thanks for the video. One thing that I notice right away is that you at least seem to be powering it with a charger, from the grid. I understand you are simulating a solar panel but if I am seeing and understanding correctly you have the charge on the primary and the machine also drawing from it. If this is how you are running than you will never charge your primary up in a real world setting with a solar panel. I do think the tracker systems from Mr. Bedini can do that but you appear to be just putting the primary battery in-line to the AC charger. That's cheating Bro ;-)
Let's suppose that charger is a solar panel for a moment. It will try to charge your primary up but never make it because you are pulling a load at the same time, a pretty heavy one at that 2.2A. Ok so what would happen when the sun goes down. Your primary will be at about 12.4 or so and then it needs to run your system under it's own power. I imagine you would only get a few hours of run time before that battery craps out.
The thing to do is have one primary charging on the solar(charger) and the another running the system. That charger shouldn't be in-line if you want to simulate the solar setup.
I am only talking about a simple scenario here. But I am curious if you ever simulate the sun going down, ever unplug the charger? I do not think you are getting the same power input as you would from a true DC source such as a Solar panel but it is close maybe. Power supplies do some strange things on these systems that you do not see when using true DC. I know because I used to cheat with one myself and I noticed that when I went to batteries only on the input the system ran much differently. I also started learning to manipulate my power more efficiently because a couple hundred ma can make a huge difference on your run time.
Anyway just something to think about.
Thanks for the video. One thing that I notice right away is that you at least seem to be powering it with a charger, from the grid. I understand you are simulating a solar panel but if I am seeing and understanding correctly you have the charge on the primary and the machine also drawing from it. If this is how you are running than you will never charge your primary up in a real world setting with a solar panel. I do think the tracker systems from Mr. Bedini can do that but you appear to be just putting the primary battery in-line to the AC charger. That's cheating Bro ;-)
Let's suppose that charger is a solar panel for a moment. It will try to charge your primary up but never make it because you are pulling a load at the same time, a pretty heavy one at that 2.2A. Ok so what would happen when the sun goes down. Your primary will be at about 12.4 or so and then it needs to run your system under it's own power. I imagine you would only get a few hours of run time before that battery craps out.
The thing to do is have one primary charging on the solar(charger) and the another running the system. That charger shouldn't be in-line if you want to simulate the solar setup.
I am only talking about a simple scenario here. But I am curious if you ever simulate the sun going down, ever unplug the charger? I do not think you are getting the same power input as you would from a true DC source such as a Solar panel but it is close maybe. Power supplies do some strange things on these systems that you do not see when using true DC. I know because I used to cheat with one myself and I noticed that when I went to batteries only on the input the system ran much differently. I also started learning to manipulate my power more efficiently because a couple hundred ma can make a huge difference on your run time.
Anyway just something to think about.
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