Joule thief / Joule Ringer to boost low power generation

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hi_tech_guy_18
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Joule thief / Joule Ringer to boost low power generation

Post by hi_tech_guy_18 » Sun Nov 09, 2014 5:17 am

Staring to see a use for Joule thief / Joule Ringer as a way to improve collection & transport of low power DC to make sure solar panels in an overcast days to make there much lower power generation reach the battery bank

Solar pannal are only outputting below 12v (11v > 2v)
what if we can up that at the solar panels side as High-frequency Pulsed DC with a Joule thief / Joule Ringer
So we can make use of 2x Microwave transformers Transmitter (step-up) - Receiver (Step-Down) to help improve the cable transport

on the Receiver side (115V Winding output)
with a GBPC2504-E4, Bridge Rectifier Single Phase, 25A 400V, 4-Pin and cap on the other end That Feeds into a 150W DC DC Boost Converter Regulator to convert it to 24V DC so the MPPT can do something with it

Solar panels > Switch Relay > Joule thief / Joule Ringer > Output to 115V Winding on Microwave transformer HV output to long overhead cables (like the power company's do) (electric fencing wire and isolators on 10ft high fence posts) that can carry this scary voltage back to the house and into the HV windings of the Receiver Microwave transformer and stepped down to the rectifier to the voltage the limits of the Cap + 150W DC DC Boost Converter Regulator voltage range to be stepped up to be a constant current (& voltage) to the MPPT

You could put magnets on to the Joule thief coil Plus the Receiver Microwave transformers to force Negative back EMF so you get A True AC polarity back flip when the pulse is over you get some extra juice due to the negative flip

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Re: Joule thief / Joule Ringer to boost low power generation

Post by techman » Fri Nov 21, 2014 1:31 pm

Each one of those devices uses a little bit of energy to run and has some loss in the circuits.

But an MPPT solar charge controller has a couple simple circuits in it. There is a buck inverter (step down) and a boost inverter (step up) which are both simply DC to DC converters.

I got some cheap boost and buck inverters off ebay one time and hope to experiment with them one day during winter when the tiny house construction is slowed down

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