As my research is directly related to this topic,i will post my research results here from now on.
First off,i have spent the last two weeks solid carrying out tests with capacitors,transferring energy from one cap to another using all sorts of series transfer methods--E.G resistors,motors,inductors etc.
Im sure you have all heard or believe that when doing a cap to cap transfer via a series connected resistor of some value,you end up with half the voltage on each cap,and loose half the energy in the transfer.
Well,i would like to tell you that that is not true when using large value capacitors.
From 1F(and even lower than this) and up,the end voltage on both caps after the transfer is higher than half the value of the voltage that was across the source cap before the transfer.
You also do not loose half the energy,and as you increase in capacitance value,the less energy% you loose in the transfer.
I have been seeing large gains above the half voltage,and half energy loss !theory! over the last two weeks of testing,when using caps in the range of 50F.
ION did a sim of a transfer between two 1F cap's,and came out with half the starting voltage across each cap,and half the energy lost during the transfer-- as per accepted results say it should be.
I carried out a real world test,using two 1F caps.
The results are in the video below.
We all know about DA(dielectric absorption)--pay close attention to the meter on the left during the transfer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoEXIB2qwWk.
With the caps i have,and the results gained over the last two week's,that continually show a COP1+ result,i decided to spend a bit more money toward this project.
As my limit ATM is two 100F caps (2 banks of two 50F caps hooked in parallel),a few days ago i ordered 6x 500F caps to continue my experiments with.
I am hoping to see larger gains with the larger capacitance values.
This gives me a much larger energy transfer,and over much longer test run times.
This will allow me to log the data at a far greater accuracy--even though results so far are quite accurate.
Brad
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