Originally posted by clarence
Finally finished and ran the system with the improvements of the Supercap banks as the lead receiver of the charge voltage from the Batt charger prior to the battery itself.
The draw on the battery this time was 10.6 amps (a lot I believe).
used my 3000 watt Aims inverter - others were too beat up to use any more.
the toroid didn't perform at all this time - It's amp was 112.9-113 amps.
It remained the same reading all the time.
Last time I had 8 #10 AWG turns around the mid of the toroid loop
and it showed it was furnishing amperage by induction to those eight turns.
this time I had stepped it up to 64 wraps and it didn't give up anything.
Evidently more is not better. Will drop to just 4 wraps over the weekend
and see what happens going with less.
This time I had two batteries being charged at the same by the Xantrix charger (specs say it can do three at a time !) One was used for the test
and the other was idle while being charged ( not connected to anything
except it's own supercap parallel to battery leads from charger.
Took only about 4 minutes to charge it from 12.2 to 14.3 ready to go.
The charger and a 100 watt CFL were self looped back to the charging of both separate batteries.
The run was shorter this time because it had no help from the large wire toroid unit.
Still the run was long enough coupled with the fast enough charge of the idle battery to convince me that a 24/7 hour option is possible - all at 60 Hz.
To accomplish that it would just be necessary to switch the idle battery into service and the being used battery out of service. the out of service battery still has its own incoming charge since it is already connected to the charging circuit and would only take about 4 minutes to be ready to go again.
I have located a Make..then Brake battery switch that is made and designed for just this purpose to switch batteries UNDERLOAD so as not to interrupt service and without damage to normal components the inverter is powering.
The switch I will order will be in by late next week and I will build that
system to make use of it.
Be mindful that this is a MANUAL switch. It will have to be updated with a
timer/servo control to make it automatic for the end user.
Still lots to do but that's better than sitting on a dead ass twiddling thumbs.
No jpg pics at this time - nothing worth the effort.
thanks for listening BRO,
Clarence








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