Capacitive Battery Charger

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How-To build & operate the simplest, most versatile, efficient and effective battery charger ever conceived, for less than $5.!!!

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Capacitive Battery Charger

Super Efficient, Versatile and Simple. by George Wiseman, Copyright Oct., 1996, Nov., 2009 This battery charger will be called the Capacitive Battery Charger or CBC in this document. The CBC was developed as a spinoff of Eagle-Researchs Energy Conserver technology. The potential to use this circuit for battery charging and for other project power supplies became immediately apparent. The CBC uses capacitors instead of a transformer to change high voltage into low voltage. The home builder can upgrade the CBC to a larger amperage any time he (or she) desires, with no efficiency loss. This battery charger has several other advantages when compared to battery chargers using transformers to step down high voltage AC into low voltage AC. (1) The CBC is less expensive to build because capacitors are easier to make than transformers and require less actual material. (2) The CBC is lighter in weight, although about the same size, compared to transformer battery chargers of the same capacity. (3) The CBC is easier to design, for any particular application, because you dont need to worry about all the factors involved in matching the transformer inductance to frequency, voltage and amperage. With the CBC, you simply add or subtract capacitors to get any

amperage you want; frequency and voltage are negligible concerns. (4) The CBC has much less electrical loss. Transformers typically get warm and buzz when in operation, all warmth and noise is lost electricity. Capacitors stay cool and nearly noiseless. The only loss in a capacitor is when electrons actually cross the resistance of the dielectric between the capacitor plates inside the capacitor. High quality capacitors have extremely little loss. (5) The extreme simplicity of the CBC allows people to assemble battery chargers from surplus parts or used parts that can be obtained for free or at little cost. (6) The CBC automatically adjusts its voltage to the battery voltage it is applied to, plus the voltage needed to push the required amperage through the battery. (7) You can charge batteries of various voltages in series or similar voltages in parallel. This increases the versatility of the CBC. The CBC can charge several batteries at once (in series) at a high amperage rate. For example, a one amp CBC will charge 2 six volt batteries and three 12 volt batteries equals 48 volts, all at one amp and all at the same time. A one amp CBC maintain a large battery pack (in parallel) by splitting the constant amperage between all the batteries. If you have six batteries in the 12 volt battery pack (in parallel), then each battery will receive 1/6 of an amp, constantly. (8) No matter what the battery voltage, the amperage (current) of the CBC stays constant. Constant

current chargers are noted as the best means of charging a battery. (9) You adjust the CBC amperage easily by adding or subtracting capacitance. You can add capacitance by the flip of a switch, thus you have a very efficient variable rate charger. (10) It doesnt hurt the CBC to short the terminal leads, in fact, this is the recommended storage position. Clamp the terminal leads together. If the power is turned on while the leads are clamped together the CBC will draw no power from the AC source and there is less danger of getting shocked. Of course, if the leads are not hooked onto anything, there will be no power draw from the AC source either, but there is a high voltage danger. (11) Even low amperage CBCs seem to charge batteries much faster than their higher amperage transformer counterparts. I believe this effect is a by-product (not only of the natural high efficiency of the CBC but) of the particular wave pulse formed by the rectified high voltage AC with capacitive feedback and the battery itself doing the clamping. (12) It is a tested fact, that my CBC of the same amperage as my transformer charger draws 57% less power from the AC source, tested by a watt-meter. Im sure that there are transformers of greater efficiency than the one I tested. But this should indicate to you how I assembled in a few minutes from surplus parts ($5) a battery charger that flat out beat a store bought charger, for which I paid $40.00. This test can easily be confirmed with the utility watt-hour meter that 1

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meters the power into most homes and businesses. The formula to figure watts from your watt-meter is Number of revolutions of the wheel (I usually do one rev.) times Kh (read Kh on face of meter, most will be 7.2) times 3600 (seconds) this product is divided by the time (in seconds) that it took to turn the number of wheel revolutions above. The answer is watts. #Rev. X Kh X 3600 = watts time of #Rev. To get joules (watt-seconds) you multiply the watts you just got times the seconds it took to turn your watt-meter wheel revolutions. There are 3600 watt-seconds (joules) in an hour. There are 3,600,000 watt-seconds (joules) in a kilowatt hour. (13) Plugging any CBC into 240 AC volts instead of 120 AC volts, will simply double the amperage output. Thus you can get more amperage capacity if your capacitors are rated for the higher voltage. Be sure your capacitors are rated for 240 volts. (14) The CBC works just as well on 50 cps as 60 cps (cps = cycles per second or Hertz); thus it can be applied anywhere in the world. As a general rule, increasing the cps of the AC source will increase the amperage output of the CBC. (15) Small transformers are notoriously inefficient. Thus, especially in small applications, capacitive power supplies are doubly effective. (16) In addition, I see the CBC becoming the charger of choice for electric vehicles. It is super efficient and reliable. It is insensitive to frequency and voltage 2

fluxuations. It is inexpensive to build and can be built in many small components without losing efficiency. This makes it easy to tuck the CBC into odd shaped spaces in an automobile. Because they operate cool, there is no need to design ways to get rid of the excess heat. It has a unique wave form that is particularly good for charging batteries. (17) The CBC will charge batteries that transformer chargers have trouble with. For example, a lot of heavily sulfated batteries are tough for a transformer charger to charge because they cant get their voltages high enough. The CBC will charge them with little trouble because the voltage is whatever it takes to overcome the resistance. My transformer charger, while charging one amp @ 12.10 VDC, was drawing (according to my volt and amp meters) .4 amp @ 120 VAC from the wall. It took 546 seconds to turn the watt-meter wheel one turn. Thus it actually draws 23.74 watts. Since it is using 23.74 watts to put 12.10 watts into the battery, it is 51% efficient. The product of 546 seconds (for one wattmeter wheel) and 23.74 (watts) is 12962.04 (joules). My one amp CBC (charging at 12.10 VDC) takes 945 seconds to turn the watt-meter wheel one turn. Thus it draws 13.71 watts. Since it is using 13.71 watts to put 12.10 watts into the battery, it is 88% efficient. The product of 945 seconds (for one wattmeter wheel) and 13.71 (watts) is 12955.95 (joules). Note that the joules are nearly a perfect match, showing the comparative efficiency of using the wattmeter as a measuring device in this case. My watt-meter Kh is 3.6.

We divide 546 by 945 to get 57.77% comparative efficiency between the transformer charger and the capacitive charger. I think other people in the past have come up with this idea but have been fooled by the strange way you have to look at electricity to see how efficient the CBC is. When one amp is flowing in one part of a circuit, it is flowing in all parts of the circuit. Normal electricians see amperage times voltage equals watts; which is normally true. So when they read one amp and 120 volts coming from the AC source, they assume that it is 120 watts, without even testing with a watt-meter. In this case, such an assumption is wrong because of the characteristics of the circuit that makes the CBC. You have capacitors in the circuit and capacitors do not consume any power (ideally). Thus, the voltage drop across the capacitors must be subtracted from the source voltage to get a better understanding of the actual wattage draw of the CBC. In the example above, where we draw one amp from the AC source, at 120 volts; we find that the AC voltage reading across the capacitor (24 uf), while charging a 12 DC battery is about 118 VAC. So if we multiply (120 VAC - 118 VAC ) X 1 amp = 2 watts. In actual fact the CBC is not quite this efficient, if it were so it would be charging the battery (12 VDC X 1 amp = 12 watts) with 12 watts while only drawing 2 watts from the wall. There are other factors which reduce the CBC efficiency. However, the CBC efficiency is well above transformer chargers, at least the ones Ive tested.

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