Hi Gary,
Do you recall - once the correction was made to the sch. - if the 555 version ever performed well for other experimenters?
I'm getting ahead of myself, but just as you did, I want to build another SG, as the one I’ve made doesn’t have matched transistors and resistors, and I didn’t true the bike wheel with a spoke wrench - all of which will limit what it can do. When I get that one made I'll also switch to a comparator.
Thanks for the advice to use enough FET’s to handle the total capacitance I’ll be dumping. I get a rough idea of the number of FET's to add just reading what you did, but how do you calculate how many FET’s to use in relation to the capacitance?
I’d prefer to just run the SG and charge batteries directly from it (assuming that’s what generator mode means) but I want to start a business restoring dead vehicle batteries so I'll need to condition them with a cap dump.
On a bit of a tangent, I saw a post once saying that if one connected multiple batteries on the output side (apparently in series) that those after the first battery would be conditioned by it and thus would work as run batteries/batteries that would accept hot current later. Is that correct?
Do you recall - once the correction was made to the sch. - if the 555 version ever performed well for other experimenters?
I'm getting ahead of myself, but just as you did, I want to build another SG, as the one I’ve made doesn’t have matched transistors and resistors, and I didn’t true the bike wheel with a spoke wrench - all of which will limit what it can do. When I get that one made I'll also switch to a comparator.
Thanks for the advice to use enough FET’s to handle the total capacitance I’ll be dumping. I get a rough idea of the number of FET's to add just reading what you did, but how do you calculate how many FET’s to use in relation to the capacitance?
I’d prefer to just run the SG and charge batteries directly from it (assuming that’s what generator mode means) but I want to start a business restoring dead vehicle batteries so I'll need to condition them with a cap dump.
On a bit of a tangent, I saw a post once saying that if one connected multiple batteries on the output side (apparently in series) that those after the first battery would be conditioned by it and thus would work as run batteries/batteries that would accept hot current later. Is that correct?
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