Originally posted by John_Koorn
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Hi John K.
Thanks for the correction about the quote for the Telsa switch and your input. Are you running the SG in Gen mode in position 1 of the diagram, but between the two negatives? Have you tried reversing the SG leads and if so what did you find?
The way I have the small brushless motor set up will be changed to the way you are running your machine, between the two positives or the two negatives while a second SG is connected across the two charging a 4th battery. This way seems like it could be a good way of doing things and I will compare.
My early results... I have found that my Conventional DC motor system configuration, which is between the two positives according to position 1 and was used periodically to recharge the primary battery, never drained the overall system when run. Voltages between the primary and secondary always seemed to end up at the near same place or even a little higher after a primary recharge with the DC motor. After a six hour rest the system seemed to have lost some voltage, the loss was very small indeed like perhaps .04 of a volt over the course of a 12 hour period but it could be attributed to overcharging the primary and wasting current this way. I need to do some controlled experiments to find out for sure.
With all that said there has to be an optimum configuration for the best results and that will take some time to find out what that will be.
Dave Wing
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