Ah the joys of veroboard ! you have obviously spent hours wrestling with it ! Seems as hard as I try with that stuff it still looks like a rats nest! Having said that there's some great stuff that’s been designed and built on it by others.
My sight forces me to work very slowly with the stuff which hasn't always been so I find it very frustrating that what once took an hour now takes a day and looks like a dogs dinner.
Thanks for the information re Tesla coils A.king I haven't messed with them much but I was pretty much aware of those variables. I was really just wondering how much of an advantage the time and trouble of building a PLL would offer over one of the simpler circuits. (Zero voltage switching)
I have in the past worked on UHF hand held transceivers and tuned to very sharp resonance curves which I found something very like finding the resonance points on a lead acid battery. Sharp and difficult .
I would also suggest the manufacture and construction of a LA battery now is very different from an example thirty or more years ago. For all the hype about 'save the planet' super duper maintenance free LA batteries are not very long lived.
I would also hazard a guess that they are much harder to hold at resonance than their fore runners, by design for obvious reasons.
As for COP >1 ? well I thought so when I saw battery posts frosting up but me thinking in a logical way doesn't make it so, does it?
Logic can be patient, for it is eternal
Oliver HeavisideThinking in a logical way for me runs rather like this , If a machine is running apparently with no known energy source and it contains a battery regardless of the machine something extraordinary must be occurring about that battery , Time and again these forums split away to discuss one system or another with its own band of loyal acolytes the focus is then lost The needle in the hay stack and we suckers the bee's …
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labour.
Nikola Tesla Also if the system has merit planted in that group to add insult to injury, is a agent of deception one who seems 'all knowing' his/her paid job is to get the hounds chasing the wrong scent and eventually their own tails. It works a treat!.. think about it!
This particular thread is aimed at capacitive battery charging and has branched off Clarence's subject. I initially opened it under a thread called 'magnetic current' It makes little mind to me' its a case of wherever the wheels gain traction . If I were simply off the cuff the write down a few systems , 1/ David Bowlings 3BGS
2/John B's Tesla Switch, 3/ The scalar Battery charger 4/ Clemente Figuera's machines there are many more ...
if you do but think logically. In this vintage clip by EPD at 40sec would you like to hazard a guess what’s actually happening when the contacts go screwy ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwu8rspxQWE (might I suggest the frequency happens to be series resonant with the batteries for a while ?) It might help if you take every system you know of that contains a battery then consider how that particular machine might be adjusted so it is projecting series resonance at the battery. Also keep in mind with coil systems either end of the coil is anti phase w.r.t each other and so the centre tap obviously .. isn't . It is also then neither Sine nor Cosine.
Whilst I am certain sure the secrets of the LA battery don't hold anything like all the answers, there is it seems to me something in the crystal formation that can convert 'magnetic current' instantly to usable energy. Just conjecture of course but I Think T.H Moray discovered a stable crystalline substance that would do that very same job but without all the will O' the wisp stuff that is forcing us to consider tracking what I promise you is a very difficult resonance. (In fact it isn't even really one resonance but rather a progressive series just as MJN describes else where) It seems he used the crystal Quartz or more precisely 'blasted Quartz' (metastatic) but like chemistry, batteries and oh so many other things its another area I know little about but I am trying to grasp. I guess if you want to make a rabbit stew the first thing you have to do is catch the rabbit. Here then I suggest Is the job of series resonance, The conversion is another chapter if not a whole book.... veroboard calls
Kind regards Duncan