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I have been lurking here for about 3 months while building my first SSG from scratch. I gave it a test run yesterday and it seem to be working very well- no neons lighting up and the wheel is spinning about 280-300 rpm. After watching Johns video's he strikes me as a bit crotchety and no-nonsense- (which are the guys you want to pay attention to because they are the ones that typically know what their doing)- so for those who are doing this the first time- FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS TO THE LETTER!!!!! Mine worked on the first spin and yours can too. BTW Yes the neons work as I connected a damaged battery and had 'Studio 54" from the neons doing their job. I have to get a couple amp meters so I can map and then "tune" it in before adding the cap dump. I cheated on the cap dump and just bought one from Johns site because I want to get a fully operational unit asap and will learn as I go. IE map it out with just the SSG, then add the CD and re map the times and energy draw vs output.
The first run is using what I had on hand -which is a 12v lawn mower battery ( input) and a "bad" 12v deep cycle marine battery (output). Just watching the voltages I can see the pulse charge bringing the marine battery back as each time the voltage drop in the input is less and less while the resting voltage of the output battery is increasing. However, until I map out the capacities with loads and charge times ect, I'll make no 'Claims" yet. This is just playing around so far. I have a bit of a background in this field being an Electro-Mechanical Technician for some 20 years, working on some very high end power conversion systems, ( US military). As usual, the old school guys berate me a bit, which is fine. Those are the guys who get stale and never break new ground, I am sure this group doesn't have many if any of those here.
I have been lurking here for about 3 months while building my first SSG from scratch. I gave it a test run yesterday and it seem to be working very well- no neons lighting up and the wheel is spinning about 280-300 rpm. After watching Johns video's he strikes me as a bit crotchety and no-nonsense- (which are the guys you want to pay attention to because they are the ones that typically know what their doing)- so for those who are doing this the first time- FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS TO THE LETTER!!!!! Mine worked on the first spin and yours can too. BTW Yes the neons work as I connected a damaged battery and had 'Studio 54" from the neons doing their job. I have to get a couple amp meters so I can map and then "tune" it in before adding the cap dump. I cheated on the cap dump and just bought one from Johns site because I want to get a fully operational unit asap and will learn as I go. IE map it out with just the SSG, then add the CD and re map the times and energy draw vs output.
The first run is using what I had on hand -which is a 12v lawn mower battery ( input) and a "bad" 12v deep cycle marine battery (output). Just watching the voltages I can see the pulse charge bringing the marine battery back as each time the voltage drop in the input is less and less while the resting voltage of the output battery is increasing. However, until I map out the capacities with loads and charge times ect, I'll make no 'Claims" yet. This is just playing around so far. I have a bit of a background in this field being an Electro-Mechanical Technician for some 20 years, working on some very high end power conversion systems, ( US military). As usual, the old school guys berate me a bit, which is fine. Those are the guys who get stale and never break new ground, I am sure this group doesn't have many if any of those here.
I'm sure i will be tapping the extensive knowledge here in my quest. No use paying for the same real-estate twice, so long as the lesson is learned and implemented properly. In a week or so, I'll have the basic instrumentation up to speed and then the fun starts. One question for sure is : I noticed a very sharp/ narrow pole swap between the magnets ( using a compass) as the wheel rotates by. It will be interesting to see what effect that has on the coil/wave form in light of the circuit timing and function, at that moment. And does that possibly fall into contributing to the better "quality" of electricity for the voltage pulse. I would think that reversal - though narrow in width, might be pretty intense. All theory for the moment. I'll be back when I get this first part figured out.
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