1-Hour "ON" 2-Hours "OFF": A Mix Of Good And Bad News - Post #58
First, the bad news.
The DC Augmentation as per post #56 had a dismal result, and upon closer inspection I can conclude that the source batteries which happens to only have 1x strong battery (the other 3x are half or almost dead) can not cope when the discharge cycle (2 hours) takes place. Further, during the charging cycle (1 hour), the 3x half-dead source batteries can not take the charge from the DC grid effectively. I will have to buy myself some new batteries and will go back to the said setup later on.
Now, the good news.
As I am not the type of person that gives up so easily, I re-arranged the DC augmentation circuitry and came up with a version 2.0, illustrated below:
The version 2.0 above somehow replaced my frustrations with version 1.0, clearly displaying some manifestations that I can not once again explain even to myself. Weird behaviors from such circuit that can not be denied as far as results are concerned.
EFFECTIVELY WEIRD STUFF I SHOULD SAY
So how weird and effective really? I will just enumerate:
If we try to observe the version 2.0 circuit, the source batteries are now “in series” with the GRID DC augmentation voltage; whatever circuitry the power supply have, I am sure that at the end of it is just a capacitor as the reservoir of the converted DC voltage from the grid AC. A capacitor (with voltage) if connected in series with a battery will not “add up” its voltage with the battery. The version 2.0 circuit when not yet oscillating is exactly like this behavior. But once the circuit is “jump started”, the voltage from the source battery “positive” and the grid DC “negative” is equal to both voltages added, with said combined voltage clearly powering up the circuit because if we turn off the grid DC voltage the circuit simply stops operating.
The 2x source batteries “seemingly” are not even discharged, and to be very safe I will describe it as “discharging very slowly”
The grid DC current as pulsed can be measured on the clamp meter at a very low range of 70 milliamps to 300 milliamps; there are times that the voltage of the auto-power supply will go “negative” and yet the circuit never stops running
The captured frequency as per the frequency meter is at the 10s of Khz ranges; very very high as well as a first for me in this setup
The capacitor at the GI pipe end can accumulate a very high voltage of 300 volts to 500 volts all the while lighting up 3 watts or 9 watts 200 volts LED bulb; this can only mean that the more LED bulbs added as a “load” to the capacitor, the more power this version 2.0 circuit can deliver
The “new” capacitor as added for version 2.0 at the ground connection end is also another DC voltage accumulation that is able to flicker the 3 watts LED bulb, said flickering is giving us the idea that it can be used to charge another set of batteries in the 24-volts range
The charge batteries are charging up steadily as all behaviors from #1 to #6 are displayed during the circuit operation
Really weird behaviors right? But no matter how weird, as long as it is working to our favor then all fine with me.
Just do not let me explain WHY, I can not really, for the life of me, possibly know why the circuit even starts up when the source power has become “a mix and in series” of battery energy and capacitor energy (from grid supply).
I can only report the HOW and the WHAT as far as these circuits are concerned.