12 Volt Charging

[Randy Gross]

If you answer 'yes' to either of these
questions, look up 'Law of Entropy' and
'perpetual motion machine' on the
internet.

I understand this. That was my concern in the beginning. I knew that at
some point the system would equalize and stop. Using the law of Entropy,
I realized I would have to keep the system in a state of disorder. It is
the same for an auto rolling along an interstate, if nothing is done to
interrupt Entropy, the car will come to a halt. I am trying to apply the
same physics here. How can I interrupt Entropy to keep this system
running. It's not Perpetual Motion. There are two sources of power here.
I believe that once a prototype is running, no matter how erratically,
someone will fill in the pieces.

 

[John Miller]

You all mean energy, not power, right? Ratch

You bet. Under the circumstances, it seemed that it would be less confusing
to the original poster to correct only one error at a time.

--
John Miller
Email address: domain, n4vu.com; username, jsm

Ask not what's inside your head, but what your head's inside of.
-J.J. Gibson

 

[Peter Bennett]

This alternator is hand built with two banks of 3 phase windings. The
rotor has 16 permanent magnets separated on a two 8 pole disk. This is
the power source and, along with the battery, are consumable. I am
simply trying to arrange it to where they work together to produce the
result I want and stay within the law. Each one of these devices
produces power, one has to be charged, the other rotated to produce. My
problem is the handshake.

The alternator does not _produce_ power or energy, it only _converts_
the mechanical energy that drives it into electrical energy, and it
does that with less than 100 % efficiency, regardless of how fancy you
make it, or how many sets of windings it has. The total power out of
the alternator will always be less than the power required to drive
it.



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