I think the present board contains only a diode to shunt the energy from the collapsing field in the inductors back to the battery. Sure they recover some energy if they do this but they also damage the battery. If they did not do this, the reed switch would fail sooner due to arcing from the collapsing inductor field.
Elsewhere we explored gating inductors to redirect energy between them; but, the fact that you cannot store energy in the magnetic field of the inductor (unlike the electric field of the capacitor) means you have to be cognizant of the potential for damage to the gates. A switched inductor's potential will seek infinity in order to drop the magnetic charge, often deadly to mosfets. IGBTs worked better. Terry On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Esa Ruoho <[email protected]> wrote: > anyone want to hazard a guess as to what the other 2 slots will contain at > the start, and at the end of the january demos? > > one already contains a PCB with a reed switch (or uhh, did i just get all > that wrong?) > > what could the 2 other slots possibly contain? im guessing here but would it > be possible that they'd start an orbo up with a battery, then switch to > capacitors to keep it running - and then? > > an orbo running a second orbo? > > it really seemed to me that the measurement input/output will be addressed > in january. i dont think you machine 3 slots "for fun". its possible that > the armchair skeptics are going to get their nose rubbed on their own pride. > > i have a feeling that anyone who's currently claiming "naw, nevermind them, > seen it, not gonna do anything, its a scam" is being led down a road they > are very willing to walk - whilst basically just tightening the figurative > noose on their neck with their brilliance.. > > > so, what would anyone here suggest could fill the slots, if we are to just > start with the wildly random premise that they actually know capacitors > exist... > > > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > " Light bulb! Light bulb! Light bulb!" >> >> Calm down, Mongo. Here, have a nice candygram. >> > >
