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@m0rtifiedpenguin
@m0rtifiedpenguin 2 сағат бұрын
Definitely replicating that motor with PWM on the high side.
@user-zn8ru4cs6p
@user-zn8ru4cs6p Күн бұрын
Your explanation is way too technical. I give your video a thumbs down .
@johnstillman2935
@johnstillman2935 2 күн бұрын
well done !
@swarfegakid
@swarfegakid 2 күн бұрын
Excellent, thanks.... I'll get connecting my 12v lead acid batteries in parallel.....
@glenpush3150
@glenpush3150 4 күн бұрын
Thanks dude, that was an excellent explanation of how memory dumps work.
@Stevef-sk3jc
@Stevef-sk3jc 5 күн бұрын
and ill tell you why.. that yagi has rf blockage because your boom is too wide
@elijahbyers7700
@elijahbyers7700 6 күн бұрын
Is it ok to look at these towers
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV Күн бұрын
why would it not be?
@camelbyte626
@camelbyte626 7 күн бұрын
best simple explanation so far 👍
@curiosity_saved_the_cat
@curiosity_saved_the_cat 9 күн бұрын
Are there parts in the newer power supply that weren't available back in the days, or were they too expensive?
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 9 күн бұрын
Yes, mainly the switching transistors.
@curiosity_saved_the_cat
@curiosity_saved_the_cat 9 күн бұрын
Maybe it's possible to rapidly charge a supercapacitor with a large generator and then use the stored energy to charge the battery.
@shawnreinhardt945
@shawnreinhardt945 9 күн бұрын
Had to watch this 6 times b4 I finished it, I kept falling asleep
@ashutom14
@ashutom14 10 күн бұрын
You can reduce the time to look at a certain angle. In my view it's high so it may be wasting all energy in looking for sun.
@AlejandroFernandezDaCosta
@AlejandroFernandezDaCosta 10 күн бұрын
I am not a native english speaker but I know you are a excelent comunicator
@davidwright1752
@davidwright1752 10 күн бұрын
Imagine the info structure cost $50k for car and $50 to $150 k for each charger
@sokauo
@sokauo 11 күн бұрын
hi, you should have try to moove the reciever coil so it bearly pick the signal, you would have a much better sensitivity
@corysamoila
@corysamoila 11 күн бұрын
Well done Interesting and informative Thanks
@wernervanschie
@wernervanschie 12 күн бұрын
It should also find its ultimate tilt angle 😀Plus, what would be the difference of Wh yield when it’s being oriented to the south with a tilt angle of 37°?
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 12 күн бұрын
You could make it dual-axis although I suspect it wouldn't help my setup much, since early in the morning/late in the evening (when a different tilt would be most useful) the sun is behind trees and houses anyway. I'd like to do a proper comparison between tracking on vs off to see how much it really helps, and I want to do it soon, but the difficulty with this is that I need two completely sunny days in a row haha. If I had to take a guess based on some incidental power numbers I measured I'd say I expect it to be around 15-20% more energy over a day.
@Yurii_Ko
@Yurii_Ko 14 күн бұрын
So far it looks it uses more than produces 😂
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 14 күн бұрын
The motor only uses about 10 watts, and runs for less than half a minute at a time, then the thing goes to sleep for 15 minutes before re-adjusting again, so over a whole day it uses very little energy.
@NicholasVincent-ol1zk
@NicholasVincent-ol1zk 16 күн бұрын
The seedy dude. How does cd work.
@NicholasVincent-ol1zk
@NicholasVincent-ol1zk 16 күн бұрын
#themseedydudesprank10
@kaleygoode1681
@kaleygoode1681 17 күн бұрын
Norty putting magnets on the rotor! Must do the inductive version, minimised hardware and physical size, maximised control... Then you can sell the PCB! Home made pancakes motors are awesome for tiny and low power PTZ control of covert CCTV cameras, for example, so low-speed uses are interesting, especially if you create a design using an axial absolute position encoder, high precision servos etc... Turbine generator projects also interesting. I hope you keep this up long enough to do all the things!!!
@tabprintt
@tabprintt 17 күн бұрын
I just need to say thank you for the amazing video. Well explained!
@marcbloch1963
@marcbloch1963 18 күн бұрын
The question is: Is it harmful for the solar panels to be exposed to higher heat if turned off for prolonged time.
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 18 күн бұрын
Well, it's probably worse (the lower the temperature the better of course) but I suspect the difference in temperature is too small to cause a significant difference in lifespan of the panels.
@plorks445
@plorks445 19 күн бұрын
Very good video. Straight to the point in a very clear and concise way.
@rzee4331
@rzee4331 19 күн бұрын
Consider savings for public charging sites: pad in the ground is more robust and is faster/cheaper to install and maintain than a wired connector. Then there are autonomous vehicles. You don't even need level-5 autonomy -- just auto-park in a private fleet lot, for example.
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 19 күн бұрын
They are probably more robust/lower maintenance in the long run. Not sure if they're cheaper to install, that seems like a similar job to me, although I don't install EV chargers.
@Voidroamer
@Voidroamer 19 күн бұрын
this is a surprisingly good video! +1 interaction, if i see you again in my feed i just might sub!
@garbageman3992
@garbageman3992 20 күн бұрын
this is such an amazing and brilliant video. I have a few questions about this too. with these motors would they run more efficiently if they were dirven with a sinusoidal voltage rather than a constant pwm? with permanent magnet motors they benefit form sinusoidal voltage input but since this has no permanent magnets would it? it still seems so since the primary reason for sine wave is motor geometry and angular velocity but would you know? and i think its really awesome how you release all your code and diagrams, i could never design something like this myself but having some designs to copy, learn from, and tinker with is great. and would it be better to do fast switching on the high side mosfet for the same reason that the diodes are necessary? if you switch the mosfet that feeds the phase quickly then it doesnt experience the high voltage from inductance. im also a novist everything I sad here could be wrong. its a very good video though.
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 17 күн бұрын
Due to the way the motor works, the ideal current waveform is a perfectly square wave. The drive voltage to obtain this, is usually some very weird shape. The reason doing PWM on the top mosfet is better, is because the top mosfet is driven using a so called "boot strap capacitor", which limits the amount of time the mosfet can remain on. That limits the length of the power stroke if the top mosfet is used for the slow switching. More info on the motor is on my other video about the motor itself. btw thanks for watching 👍
@toohardtowatch
@toohardtowatch 20 күн бұрын
Very cool. It's such a fascinatingly simple motor design. I'd be interested in seeing if it can be run at low RPM in conjunction with more accurate feedback. A multi-axis hall sensor perhaps, or a quadrature encoder. Or maybe holding arbitrary fixed positions, micro-step stepper-driver style. Regarding balancing, you might check out the setups to balance rc props for balancing the rotor. It's basically a levelled stand with two pair of low-resistance steel wheels for the shaft to run between. A similar arrangement of four cheap skate bearings with the shields removed might work as well? Although the shaft would probably be needed to be straitened out first. Or if you have a scope, there is a video on dynamically balancing a motor with a small speaker as a contact vibration sensor, that seems it could be applicable? Rather than referring it to a BLDC, since that seems ambiguous, perhaps call them PMSM, permanent magnet synchronous motor. That seems to be an accepted terminology. Also, if I understand correctly, the SRM stator and physical arrangement of poles are similar to a PMSM, and the relative magnetization forces between rotor and stator would seem to be functionally identical between them. Therefore the difference between SRM and PMSM is in how the process of inductively magnetizing the rotor for smooth rotation requires very different driver voltage waveform in the stators? Just to clarify.
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 20 күн бұрын
The motor can run as slow as you want, even with simple sensors like these, but because my controller uses the top mosfets for commutation, and these can only be turned on for about 1 second at most, making the slowest speed possible about 0.3RPM. (due to something called bootstrapping, which is needed to drive high side mosfets). This is why I recommended using the low side mosfets for this instead, it avoids this problem. (Potentially there is a workaround for my poor design, in which the top mosfets are briefly turned off during the power stroke to recharge the bootstrap capacitors) In a nutshell, the big difference with a permanent magnet motor is that in a PM motor, you can have say a magnet north pole on the rotor being attracted towards the next (south) stator pole, while being repelled by the previous (north) one. This push-pull action doesn't happen in an SR motor, since rotor poles can never be repelled, only attracted. This is why phases need to be driven independently, and why the direction of the current in the coils is irrelevant. It also means the drive waveform is not a pure sine wave. For the smoothest operation ideally you want the current to be as close as possible to an ideal square wave. (Which may require a very weird drive voltage waveform). I'll keep your idea for balancing in mind, it may be useful for my boat propeller too 👍
@wlmsears
@wlmsears 21 күн бұрын
Great video. Explains why wireless car charging *is* feasible. Now the question becomes "is it worth it." Well, I think it is if you car is a self-driving robo-taxi.
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 20 күн бұрын
I'm not a fan of the idea of robo taxis for other reasons, but putting that aside, if I were to operate a fleet of these things, I can see how wireless charging would be quite useful indeed :)
@chris993361
@chris993361 22 күн бұрын
I'm simply lazy enough to do it without a good reason.
@portalkeeper978
@portalkeeper978 22 күн бұрын
What a great video, thank you! I was curious about this actually. I personally like automating minor annoyances such as finding your keys to unlock your front door every time you leave the house and come back. I would pay for these electronics personally, would be even cooler to do a diy installation of this concept beneath your garage floor so everything is hidden and sleek. Now I’m hearing that electric cars are worse for the environment just because of the lithium mining. I’m not sure how all those numbers compare to ICE’s, but I think the bigger problem is getting that sodium battery technology going. A big draw to electric vehicles (just my opinion) is that your main gas station is at home, unless you go on long trips very often. So I don’t think getting more charging stations is too much of a major issue (again just my opinion). If anyone has any other thoughts and reasoning, let me know.
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 22 күн бұрын
It's another long one haha. Hope you enjoy watching it :) Some more info: - The Witricity system is based on SAE J2954. This standard contains more design detail for these coils and possible circuitry. The document is however, (of course), behind a paywall that exceeds my usual budget for videos, so I haven't considered these specs. Feel free (if you want to spend a couple 100 dollars) to compare my example coil to the actual designs in the standard, but if anything my assumptions were probably in favour of the WPT system, so it wouldn't really change the conclusion much.
@mr_crabs670
@mr_crabs670 23 күн бұрын
But doesnt a wine glass have multiple natural frequencies depending how you hit the glass?
@jennycorcuera56
@jennycorcuera56 24 күн бұрын
Sorry I have a question, I need to kee my truck battery charged, but in that truck I also have a tennis ball machine that has a battery if different size but both have the sane chemistry. Would this method work to keep not betteries charged with one solar panel Thank you
@AKIOTV
@AKIOTV 22 күн бұрын
If they're both 12v lead acid it should be fine. I'm not sure if I'd also keep the batteries in parallel while starting/driving the truck. Perhaps also put a fuse between them so a short on the tennis ball machine won't short out the (big) truck battery.
@earlhanger6509
@earlhanger6509 24 күн бұрын
Look up company called Edison motors in BC Canada. They are doing commercial logging trucks trucks that are diesel electric and they’re also going to be getting into work trucks 1 ton and bigger.
@earlhanger6509
@earlhanger6509 24 күн бұрын
Look up company called Edison motors in BC Canada. They are doing commercial logging trucks trucks that are diesel electric and they’re also going to be getting into work trucks 1 ton and bigger.
@alexandrumacedon291
@alexandrumacedon291 25 күн бұрын
sounds like trash
@barryporteous4904
@barryporteous4904 27 күн бұрын
Great bike analogy!
@brianmcrock
@brianmcrock 28 күн бұрын
Good stuff, man! Well done. Thanks!
@jers5935
@jers5935 29 күн бұрын
Your so cute
@shahzadnasir1052
@shahzadnasir1052 Ай бұрын
best thing on mppt
@GavinRichardson-jx7mm
@GavinRichardson-jx7mm Ай бұрын
Perfect, great analogy with the gears too. Thank you
@n5sdm
@n5sdm Ай бұрын
What a horrible explanation. 1. You demonstrated a de-tuning effect of a coil near a metal object. Not how modern two coil detectors work. 2. You should have a second pobe on the TX coil to trigger the oscilloscope trace for the timing of the rx coil. 3. This would allow you to null the rx coil so that the signal strength is near zero. 4. Place metal near the coils and you could witness the signal strength and the phase change on the rx coil. 5. This would demonstrate the ability to detect size and depth on a metal as well as its conductivity for a generalized identification of metal and size/depth. keep learning.
@Bedogg25
@Bedogg25 Ай бұрын
Guess I’m not the only one who random had a crisis about how tf a disc works 😂
@lajoswinkler
@lajoswinkler Ай бұрын
Since the transformer casing is connected to the nuts, when the whole thing is under tension and sitting on a damp concrete floor, it might kill you. If you put it on a conductive table you're leaning against, it will easily kill you. This is really playing with death and just a horrible design. Thumbs down and reported.
@eugenecastro7557
@eugenecastro7557 Ай бұрын
Great video!! Love the voice 💯🤜🤛
@doubleooh7337
@doubleooh7337 Ай бұрын
The risk of blowing the phone outweighs the benefits
@justifyl
@justifyl Ай бұрын
Let's say you are finding this token device, and it takes some good amount of time , AND THEN we press the button for it to give us an 8 digit code. how will that be sync since the click was later on then the servers'
@baseer_vlogs
@baseer_vlogs Ай бұрын
So well explained ❤ I have a 1080 by 1920 smartphone display
@marquito31813
@marquito31813 Ай бұрын
After 2 hours of looking through laser printer videos I finally found one that is actually useful