French Pulse Charger

[froggie]

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)

[wooferhound]

It gets talked about a LOT here

http://www.fieldlines.com/?op=search&offset=0&old_count=30&type=story&section=&s
tring=pulse+charger&search=Search&count=30

[wooferhound]

Here is a story with a schematic

http://www.fieldlines.com/story/2004/2/12/23130/7578

[Jerry]

Hi Woof.

I havn't used that one for a long time. The 120 vac unit is so simple and easy. I've built 6 of those and there all working great.

                    JK TAS Jerry