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Can you get a nicrom wire to glow ? If so you can insulate it an put it in
to the hot section of a sterling engine and convert it to rotational
energy.....they do this to test new sterling designs.
On Feb 21, 2018 10:26 AM, "Warren Keillor [email protected]
[EVGRAY]" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Sven
> It may be that Hector has found local electrical work as there is still
> not much electricity in his country. People are desperate in places with no
> light, or refrigeration, according to information that leaks out, here to
> Canada.
> I have used 300 volt DC spikes to charge 12 volt lead acid batteries
> directly.
> However, the spikes were nearly zero amps.
> Do you have a voltage reading of how much voltage the spikes are
> delivering?
> You know my preferance for rectifying to dc, then causing motors to turn.
> If the voltage is too high, put more motors in series. To test amperage put
> loads on motors, such as belt drive them to other motors.
> If all of this seems awkward, remember this is just an experiment, and the
> motors are in effect, instruments, very sturdy instruments.
> If you can light light bulbs, you can heat water. Hot water is like a
> battery, and very predictable.
> Don't use led light bulbs. Use old fashioned energy killing clear
> incandescent types, if you can find any in Germany.
> I buy mine at the cheap little corner stores while they are available.
> Soon there may be import restrictions, and they may be unavailable.
> The beauty of using them, while so cheap, is you don't cry when you pop
> them like fuses.( if they "pop" you have been successful hah!)
> Again series and parallel these resisters.
> The nice thing about the tungsten filiments in them, they can give some
> cushion to pulses which when slower, you can see, and faster, well it can
> be useful as a poor man's oscilloscope.
> With such simple apparatus, it is not a big jump to practical devices for
> the home, or vehicle.
> I hope this is some help
> Cheers Warren
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> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 1:08 AM, [email protected] [EVGRAY]
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hello Ole, Warren, Douglas and all,
>
> Yesterday I experimented again with the Tranverter and found that you can
> watch the diode plug well synonymous of the input sine on the coupling
> capacitors on the diode connector page well.
>
> The thyristors discharge very fast because there is nothing to improve
> even with 500 watts of load purely resistive load as a light bulb.
>
> But you can modulate the signal from there as a sine well with the
> adjustable ignition of the thyristors. So that one receives short empty
> steps and lo and behold the input power decreases despite full luminosity
> at the output.
>
> I wonder, can you load these spikes of the Pushpull transformer via a FWBR
> directly into a battery?
>
> I tried to connect a 2 transformer in parallel but the impedance is so
> high despite a short circuited secondary that the thyristors can not turn
> off.
>
> Then I switched 2 of the transformers on the primary side in parallel,
> then it just happened. It's pretty hard to work that way, it would be
> nicer if you can shut down the SCR appropriately, but they are almost
> indestructible to an IGBT or Mosfet. I also do not think that an IGBT can
> stand the high current increase unless it is pulsing fast.
>
> What about Hector, is he swallowed up from the ground?
> I feel that general topics are being relayed and project related
> information is not arriving. Somehow I have the feeling there is already
> method behind it.
>
> regards
>
> Sven
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