Gibbs:
When I read about people doing Bedini motor setup, they said they can recover 80- 98%. Some even claims that they have >100%. Is this even possible? What is the highest they can go if we ignore all losses?
Sorry, this is not a sensible question.
The real question in this: If I put energy into my Bedini motor with a source battery and charge up a charging battery, how much of the source battery energy can I get back from the charging battery?
The answer is probably about 20%. This might seem shocking but the problem is that nobody does their battery measurements properly. They have to measure the
energy in their batteries and they never do it.
Here is the explanation, and we will use 10,000 Joules of energy for illustrative purposes.
1. Source battery puts 10,000 Joules of energy into the Bedini motor.
2. 7,000 Joules of energy lost as heat, 3000 Joules of energy go into the charging battery.
3. Assume charging efficiency of charging battery is 0.8 -> 2400 Joules become chemical energy inside battery and 600 Joules lost as heat.
3. Assume discharging efficiency of charging battery is 0.8 -> 1920 Joules of energy available to drive an electrical load and 480 Joules lost as heat.
Efficiency is 1920/10,000 x 100 =
19.2% efficiency.These are perfectly reasonable numbers. A typical Bedini enthusiast would be shocked to hear this and might find it very offensive. The problem is that they have never made the proper measurements. I have observed enough Bedini clips to know with a high deal of confidence that a typical Bedini motor is only 30% efficient. I am not a battery expert, but I believe that the charging and discharging efficiencies that I am quoting for a lead-acid battery are reasonable.
All the talk about the "radiant spike" getting the battery to "resonate" and "get extra energy from the environment" is simply junk.
Any Bedini motor enthusiast can make the measurement to determine the efficiency of the motor in step 2 above, it's clearly explained in this thread. Then once they have that they have to make proper battery energy measurements to determine the combined (charging + discharging) efficiency of the charging battery. I am estimating the combined efficiency for a typical lead-acid battery would be about ( 0.8 x 0.8 ) = 0.64. Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely these measurements will ever be done.
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