i think the charging drops! because the big caps charges better
but im still playing with it.if i take the ground off i can use the big cap as ground!
but im still playing with it.
Sparking of the commutator inside the hobby motor can make your meter erratic. If you want to rule this possibility out buy a simple panel meter or analogue gauge and place it in parallel with your digital meter. If you still get erratic readings you could be onto something. Or if your DC motor is brushless then this is a different story. Remember a commutator is like a simple switch, in a way it is similar to the single relay circuit shown recently by Imhotep. So the make and breaks of the commutator inside the hobby motor causes the inductive spike, in this case it doesnt have anywhere to go, its not directed anywhere upon coil collapse. You will probably find that your meters continue to become more erratic the more you try to measure this type of electricity, I have about 8 cheap DVMs sitting here which all do the same thing.



Sparking of the commutator inside the hobby motor can make your meter erratic. If you want to rule this possibility out buy a simple panel meter or analogue gauge and place it in parallel with your digital meter. If you still get erratic readings you could be onto something. Or if your DC motor is brushless then this is a different story. Remember a commutator is like a simple switch, in a way it is similar to the single relay circuit shown recently by Imhotep. So the make and breaks of the commutator inside the hobby motor causes the inductive spike, in this case it doesnt have anywhere to go, its not directed anywhere upon coil collapse. You will probably find that your meters continue to become more erratic the more you try to measure this type of electricity, I have about 8 cheap DVMs sitting here which all do the same thing.

It really works neat. I modified the relay so it would oscillate a simple CFL circuit at the same time that it was charging. I ran the relay off my small 2 watt solar panel. Really cooooollll. I didn't hookup the ground or antenna to it---yet.
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