Originally Posted by Sephiroth

I am incredibly puzzled...

Still experimenting with solid state and getting some very encouraging results...

but not the way I want to

My best results have been with discharging high farad capacitors a few volts over the charging voltage. (Aaron's method)

But John uses high voltage discharges so I would expect that to perform better...

but I have just run a 24 hour test discharging a 160uf cap 100v above the charging voltage every second and the battery has only gone up .03v in all that time!!!! when using high farad caps the batteries would be fully charged by now!

These are very well conditioned batteries so I can not understand why the charging effect is so poor with high voltage.

Anyone care to comment?