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Kevin · #32 (**permalink**) 08-23-2007, 12:48 AM

Wow, for years the only person I had to talk to about the exciting things I was discovering while building and experimenting with with the BSG was Aaron....

oh, yes, there were those that said, "Hey can you build one for me to power my house", but they were not the least bit interested in building one themselves and understanding what all was going on.

Now with Shamus, amigo and others, it is fun to share in what we are/have learned!

Shamus, I too could hear the harmonic resonance while the wheel was standing still. Since I had a pot in my circuit I could change the pitch of the sound by just turning it. However, I was never able to charge a battery without the wheel spinning.

Another thing that I tried was to hook up a little bicycle generator to try and capture some of the mechanical energy. I was able to do that, however, the generator put a load on the wheel causing it to draw more energy from the source battery. Thus my net gain did not improve at all.

I do believe on my next generation it will be large enough (heavy enough) that I should be able to capture some of the mechanical energy and experience a net gain. However, that is yet to be proven or dis proven.

Amigo, please post your pics and experiences!

A few other misc. notes:

I have almost always used the neon bulbs to protect the circuits. The few times I did not I burned up the transistors.

I have a BK Precision Model 600 Battery Capacitance Analyzer that I have used to measure energy input into batteries that I have charged. It gives one a general idea on what kind of "charge" you are putting into a battery. However, the best way is to actually use the battery and measure the energy being used over a period of time (real-world situations).

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I have also experimented with using 24 volt input....I did not achieve as high a COP rating with 24 volts as 12 volts.

I have had some critics say that my little unit was picking up radiant energy from the electricity in the walls and ceilings...that if the electricity went off, I would not be able to put more energy into the batteries that I was charging than I was taking out of the source battery. Soooo, at the time I was living in a remote area on the island of Maui. I went up into the jungle (about a kilometer from the nearest structure, overhead or underground wire, etc. The unit worked exactly the same. Maybe 1 kilometer is not far enough away, but I did not want to hike any further through the jungle!

My overriding motivation in all this is to be able to generate electricity without having to have an external fuel source that I was dependent on others for. So, I have not spent near as much time understanding all the minutiae as I have spent my time experimenting, tuning, refining to get the most amount of energy stored in my batteries for the amount spent running the charger.

My best rendition so far can consistently produce 1.9 amps output for every 1 am input.

Oh! Another thing! The longer you charge a battery with these units the more the better the battery works! Aaron can expand further on this, it is referred to as conditioning the battery. Bottom line-in real world applications: Once you have charged and discharged a battery for several weeks (or longer) using this charger, the more energy the battery will store per amp expended to charge it!

Shamus, I hear you about spending an hour here and there to work on my next rendition. I sat down and looked at the plans again. Whew...32 circuits, 8 coils....I really do not want to do all soldering for those circuit boards. I don't mind winding the coils as much, but I am going to find someone to do the soldering for me.