Alternative Energy Experiments and Resources

-- GaryHammond 2012-11-23 02:27:59

My Bedini SSG

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After initial testing and setting the air gap last night the charge battery was completely charged and the primary batteries were down a little, so I took 1 AH (one amp for one hour) out of the charge battery and put the primaries on the 1AU charger overnight. This morning the primaries were sitting at 13.08 volts and the charge battery was sitting at 12.58 volts. I hooked up the SSG in generator mode while logging the charge on my CBA III analyzer. The current draw on the primaries according to my analog ammeter was 1.6 amps for 29 minutes. The run voltage on the primaries started at 12.54 volts under load and only dropped to 12.52 volts during the run. The charge battery went to 16.0 volts, fully recharged in that 29 minutes. One hour after the end of the run, the primaries had recovered to a standing voltage of 12.87 and the charge battery was resting at 12.81 volts. (The charge battery always sits a little lower than the primaries when fully charged).

So 1 AH drawn from the charge battery, and it was then recharged by .8 AH from the primaries. That's a COP of 1.25 electrical, and doesn't even include the energy used by the wheel and two fans!!

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