Hi John,
Thank you for your distilled wisdom which I will carefully consider.
Re your points:
1. I built my rotor based system using a battery swapper so the primary drive and charging batteries would be rotated every minute or so. I had reason to believe that once the ZPE had entered the battery it became 'regular' electricity and so was ok to supply the system. Whilst that method may not be the most efficient it works and does not require another power supply to get involved. Running the generator at 36V maybe more effective but the timer and decade counters work at lower voltages (max 15V), hence my need for the Buck converter. I take the point though.
2. Ok. However it's too late for three of my six batteries as I put them straight to work being charged with ZPE. I might try and do some comparisons.
3. If my fully charged batteries are reading 15.8V (and gassing) maybe I should limit the voltage they reach to 14.8V with a Zenner Diode or other voltage regulator (or 44.4V if charging a bank of three batteries in series)? Doesn't Peter Lindemann recommend charging batteries up to about 15.8 (Point P in the attached) and say that all regular chargers are short changing us? Maybe that is for open wet batteries and not the gel type I am using? Thanks for the Google reference.
Setup Frequency: I understand the principle of what you are saying but am not sure how to adjust the coil saturation. Presumably adjusting the frequency is the main way. Would adjusting the duty cycle of the feeds to the FET gates, which is currently about 50%, make any difference?
Coil Sequence: I was concerned that the circuit current at 12V with 0.28 Ohms would be too high and burn out something (probably me!). Revising the circuit based on your suggestions is possible but a significant undertaking at this moment. What my system may lack in radiant spike voltage (they are around 500V) due to the sequential coil firing arrangement is probably more than made up for by the high and variable frequency rate. "Less bang per spike but more spikes per second"
Regards,
Jules
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