Re: [EVGRAY] Cap charging and use

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Should be more efficient .
On Oct 8, 2018 9:56 PM, "Mick [email protected] [EVGRAY]" <
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> James,
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> This is an interesting way of going about it, with high voltage often caps
> are used in voltage divider networks instead of resistors.  Good idea!
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> The only problem is the larger caps are usually lower voltage else very
> expensive and the lower voltage caps can be damaged by the initial pulse
> prior to charge diffusion even though the voltage does go lower based on
> the larger farad capacity.
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> On 10/8/2018 1:53 PM, James Glinski [email protected] [EVGRAY] wrote:
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> I would try dumping them in to much larger cap there by dropping the
> voltage way down say to 15.5 volts or 4 volt to dump into a lead battery or
> lithium .no transformer needed .
> On Oct 8, 2018 10:30 AM, "Mick [email protected] [EVGRAY]" <
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>> Kone,
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>> Once one has a way of charging caps reliably and quickly what is the
>> best way to make use of a bunch charged to 800v say?
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>> What do you do with the output of your Konehead / Muller motors?
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>> I guess one way would be to dump them into a buck converter then use for
>> charging a buffer battery or supercapacitor but what are some uses you
>> have come up with?
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>> I think the dream Norm had makes sense in that we should just be
>> powering everything off caps as there are multitudes of ways to
>> efficiently charge these puppies.
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>> How quickly conventional oil caps can be charged by influence machines
>> is another interesting query as these can be voltage limited with GDT's
>> so we don't blow up our run caps with more than 800v, suppose one could
>> have a long line of these charged quickly indeed?
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>> Don't bother with electrolytic they truly suck and act as if there is a
>> load on the source so waste lots of energy and charge slowly.  They may
>> be ok for lower voltage buffers one we have converted back to watts.
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