Hey all. Do you remember someone linked to the French-designed pulse charger built by Jean-Michele Cour?
I went to the page, was quite interested and so I emailed the guy - very friendly he was too and he replied pretty much straight away.
Turns out the link we posted was a really old mirror page and he's done a lot more work since. The current English site is here:
http://www.tunecharger.com/index-261812.htm
Quite a nice little unit. It'd always frustrated me that when my panel dropped below battery voltage, I extracted nothing at all. This pulse charger will work from any source 5V and up. He pulses at 25V which gives good results on 12V batteries.
I saw someone mention they built their own pulse charger to operate at 120v. That would scare me a little, that's one hell of a pressure to kick across it.
Any comments? I think I might try and built some kind of pulse charger. Is there a good easy design or are they all equally hard work?
Thanks guys!
froggie - otherpower reader for a fair while, wind & sun power nutcase for life.
(been reading tesla patents all morning, hence I'm thinking in pressure instead of voltage)