I hooked the battery that drives the Arduino and switching up parallel with the charge battery, and after a couple of hours running this way all the batteries were beginning to drop in voltage. Then I changed the switching cycle to every 4 minutes and reduced the switching on times from 500 ms to 300 ms. It ran this way for about 5 hours and the battery voltages all continued to gradually drop.
When I saw the initial 17 volts of the charging battery on the first couple of cycles, I got excited thinking this was going to go overunity. Working with fully charged batteries gives better results than after the batteries all get a little lower in charge. As the battery under charge gets near 15 volts, the differential voltage running the machine can drop as low as 10 volts. This is too low to get the desired results from the coil collapse.
This machine apparently isn't going to self run at 12 volts input. Haven't tried it at 24 volts yet. The batteries may be too small for that. Instead, I will probably try swapping 24 volts on my attraction motor first to see how that one performs. It has a lower current draw and pulls a flux gate generator which can recharge the Arduino battery.
Gary Hammond,


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