THIS VIDEO IS IN BAD LIGHTING. INTENTIONALLY. THAT WAY IT IS A LOT BETTER TO SEE THE PHENOMENON. Besides, the cam I am using did capture every needed detail. Skip to 4:53 to see the phenomenon.
In this video I am watching a phenomenon. The setup is simple. On my roof: some solar panels (in parallel with each other all protected by a diode). Inside my house, I placed an LED light in series with a battery which I am charging. I know the LED light can draw at most 100mA, so I am charging the battery real smoothly.
Now what happens is this: as I short out the LED light, I am sending all power directly to the battery. The amperage will increase, and the battery will fill up faster. How ever, as I was changing between slow and fast charging, I saw a weird thing. As I connected and disconnected (rapidly) the LED shorting wire, the LED light was flashing a lot brighter. Even at moments where the solar panel delivers a voltage below the LED’s needed threshold to light up, pulsing the shortcut wire made it flash and light up brightly.
With a multimeter over the LED you can see the voltage is not exceeding the continuous voltage it has at that very moment. I name it continuously, because the voltage does rise and fall because of clouds and rain. What I think to see clearly, is that the voltage is not rising to a point where it may light up so bright.
Now an LED light works on AC, so if there is some sort of back EMF (hmmm, we are talking about a battery and some capacity in wires and a solar panel with some diodes) or any how a negative voltage spike, the LED would light up as well. If that is the case (which might be the truth if you look up the Bedini way of charging batteries in OU mode) then the multimeter just does not pick it up.
Also note, I do know the LED light does have a rather big capacitor inside. So LED =equals= diodes, so an Avremenko plug might be somewhere in the system without us seeing it.
But I don’t want to be guessing. You tell me. What do you think? Why is the LED lighting up so bright, whilst it is in fact being shorted out?
ps: I have seen this behavior before. In that case I was shorting out against earth. An L.E.D. light would light up because of that, even though it was only connected with one wire. I would have to set it up again to see how it went. I do recall I uses a MOT, but I don’t know all details anymore.
* about my solar panels.
There are two sets. One is a 80Watt panel, the other is a 180W panel which used to deliver 40+ Volt. How ever as partly some cells were damaged, I converted the panel to three rows usable for 12 Volt. Actually they deliver up to 16Volt, which is great. So the maximum power I drew at a sunny day was more than 10 Amps. And if I short them out, I get a tremendous power, and It can burn small wires within seconds. Even if it is DC, I am using housing copper wires which are normally used for 16A 220V AC. I accept some mV or half a Volt loss there.
Post time: Jan-20-2017