My first 555 based Inductor Kickback Desulfator
After spending days reading through most of the posts on this board, I have finally built my own desulfator that I wanted to share the design/results back to the board.(Technically, this is my second...
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Steve (serisman) Excellent build. Your layout is very clean. Good choice of components.Thank you for posting pictures of your desulfator.Mark
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Mark,Thanks for your reply, and for all the knowledge that you have shared on this board. I have learned a lot from your posts.Do you think my oscilloscope results look 'normal'? Because it is...
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I agree with Mark. You've done a fantastic job. Your photos and illustrations are very, very helpful. I'd say that your scope shots do look normal. Please let us know how your battery responds to the...
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Steve It is difficult to determine if your scope photos are "correct" because the effect of inductance and resistance in your connections. Such fast rise times and high currents make these...
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Well, I had my first casualty yesterday.I went to go check up on how things were working, and smelled something fishy. Almost immediately I noticed capacitor C4 was enlarged and trying to escape...
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Steve Very good. Check the temperature after it has been running a while. A low ESR cap will run cooler and thus last longer. Notice that large aluminum electrolytic capacitors have an hour rating on...
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Tucsonshooter wrote:Steve It is difficult to determine if your scope photos are "correct" because the effect of inductance and resistance in your connections. Such fast rise times and high cur...Read...
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Dieselmonk The tread is in the Pulse Charging and Desulfation topic. Here is a link to it. This is when I discovered that using a series resistor to measure peak current is a bad bad idea.Read More
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Tucsonshooter:O.k I read that thread, your observations seem to be what I expect there, but I can't verify that (yet). I guess I have to get me a CT that I can hook that to my scope and see. Fun...
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