So awesome! Thanks for sharing. I can see so many uses for this. I live in Saskatchewan, Canada, and this morning it is -30c with a -40c wind chill. There are so many times when even having the block heater plugged in doesn't make a difference when the battery is basically a block of acidic ice. A little further North of where I am, a dead battery could mean a dead driver in the winter. This little device could save a lot of lives in the future! Great job!
canada: cold kills you italy: poverty kills you, hunger kills you, heartquakes kill you, rain kills you, volcanos kill you damn man, you live better than we folks down here
It will not save the driver at minus 40 degrees. Need a real system, not this toy. Such a system exists in Russia. For example: MSKA-108-16-P Rated capacity: 108F Rated voltage: 16V Overall dimensions: 245x100x105 mm
Very nice unit! I made one just like that using super caps and a small 3 phase motor. I think it had a 3 to 5A output. Very handy to carry in the trunk of your vehicle in case you end up with a dead battery. A++
horashia I used 500F 2.7v caps on my 40w crank generator. I've since added a full cap bank using the balance board he shows in this video to the heavy duty crank generator I recently made. In the future I'll show it. I like how compact his unit is.
Truly some awesome energy conversion there.. whether hand cranking over time to facilitate a quick power hungry jump start or when you used the drill, which was definitely something to step back and sort of go "whoa" over. This is one of those things everyone needs to own. These would also be great for people in countries with poor power distribution. Someone could just ride a bike generator for a little while to have some light, or even run an inverter for a little while like you did for various devices. If I was in that kind of situation I'd pedal my brains out and just look at it as daily exercise.
Okay, thought this be Roadrunner Physics... But honest to God, you've opened my eyes to a segment of DIY that's so useful... Well done young man, very well done indeed. You've made a believer. I WILL share you on my Facebook page.
My buddy had this steering wheel with a ball attached like you would find on a sport fishing boat. The attached ball or knob allowed for amazing grip of the wheel during the action of the big blue tuna bight . I say all that to say that I could not imagine a better hand crank than that setup. I love your videos!
something with some gearing to make for a lot fewer turns of a longer crank with (obviously) more input energy, as it looked like the existing setup was super easy to spin. so I would think you could go in that direction a fair bit and still have something that wouldn't be prohibitively hard to crank. overall super impressive!
I had this idea for 2-3 years. I am glad that somebody finally did it. Mine ivolves a solar panel, and I hope that soon I will have time to post it on Instructables.... Thanks for the great video, and your hard work!
Dude... I so want to try this with my boys. A friend sent me your channel because I've been experimenting with some bootleg phone chargers for emergencies using a 9V battery & endcap, usb mini motherboard/plug into an a phone charger. Very cool channel.
You could use on old cordless drill motor and gearbox. If you find a good drill it will have a 2 speed gearbox. Make sure you can physically turn the chuck on the drill before you buy it because some have a braking mechanism to keep them from turning when off. With a drill chuck on the end of the box you can put just about any kind of handle on it. May be handy to hook other projects to. Keep up the great work! I learn a lot from this channel.
hey lazer what you can do is run 2-3 generator motors at a time off of a small gear and chain then run a bigger crank to make up for lost torque be sure to wire the generators in parallel
Awesome! After seeing your earlier videos on the capacitors, and my experience with a tiny lithium jumpstart pack (and measuring its not so great CCA), I was thinking on making such a box with a handcrank on it to always have an option to start the car, also when you are on your own while travelling. And now I see you already did this! However, I would add a couple of solar cells on it, so that it could charge be itself when you leave it behind the window. Just some cells which combined voltage is below the max voltage of the supercaps and you only need a diode, so no regulators or anything.
Many appliances that plug into such ports already have some sort of integrated fuse, so the factor of damaging such appliances is null. However, damage may occur to the superbank itself in certain situations.
@@COVENANT69 The sort of product that cheaps out on a fuse is the sort of product that is likely to incur a fault. With such high current potential why risk it, how much is a fuse? 10c?
If those super caps short out some how, Say you drop a wrench on those posts, you could be in for a world of hurt. It's probably not so fun having copper blobs scraped off your bones...
I will build one of these as soon as I can and have it in my car... the problem with battery based jumpers is that when you really need them, they are either drained or dead... and no one has the time to maintain them by assuring its battery is charged or fresh... I assume this thing can discharge and survive months of living in the trunk of the car... really cool gadget... thanx! cheers!
always great work and nice hang music in the intro.thanks for your labors and sharing freely .a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year to you and yours
I just chain watched a bunch of your videos, and you have great ideas! tons of these could apply directly to drag cars that don't run alternators and quickly topping off your battery inside the car between runs is a huge bonus! Great stuff
That's an awesome project. Add a solar quick connect or hook the to the top post. Side question perhaps another experiment, do you think a worn out door lock motor could be boosted with a capacitor? So instead of replacing it the capacitor could give it that extra emphh to unlock, lock. Thanks for entertaining the idea.
Would putting 12v of solar cells on one side of the box work? Could keep the box by a window to charge when you weren't using it, and to augment cranking it when you needed to do that. Nice little project. I especially liked you running the small inverter off of it.
Great video, what are you using to regulate the voltage going into that capacitors when charging? That motor can produce around 40V, and the caps should only be getting 16 or so.
Fun build! With all that extra space, I'd install some lighting inside the box itself with a switch to control it. And of course, some type of short circuit protection.
Very cool and great work!! Hook those caps up to an atmospheric antennae....constant charging using the Earth circuit. No cranking...no spinning anything :)
That is great... Very well done. Maybe a round disk connected to the motor with a handle on the disk? You could make the disk as big as you like also some gears that make every turn of the handle multiplied.
Excellent idea, I have been using a super Capacitor battery on my car for four years now. I have a spare set of Capacitors and will build one similar to this! Thank you!
A geared rod can be easier on the recharge person when the generator has a weighted flywheel. One push is then followed by continued generator rotations. Ratcheted gear box can be used with the rod or half turned handle you have now. Scissored foot pedal is alt with return spring. This taps into your weight combined with leg power. Pneumatics can feed an air to an air driven motor attached to the pack when mounted in car. So many possibilities.
Several years ago Harbor Freight was selling several hand crank gadgets to charge cell phones. They used a tiny, non-descript motor but what was the key was the multiple gears. Stepper motors produce high ac voltage but the very low torque made them useless for me. What does work well for generators, for me anyway, is geared motors with significant torque. A quarter turn will shoot the voltage up there and they are capable of doing real work.
I watch this and think about the generator itself. first a flywheel, and some sort of gearing/jack shaft setup. so your 1 crank rotation you can get say 10 generator arbor rotations.
wow that is the perfect thing for those below freezing mornings when my truck needs just more juice to turn over... are you gunna build some for sale? I've never soldered anything in my life.
How are you and what is new ? Found a better hand crank ? Could you use a Microwave turntable motor in some way ? I noticed there are many variations of these turntable motors not all the same in design. Hope you are well and love to see new ideas ! UK man trying and testing
with a little r&d i think this could make a fine backpack model with enough energy to last quite a while doing a good amount of work. integrated gooseneck flashlight, integrated lithium battery, battery charger for cordless items, permanent volt meters. if made of 22 gauge sheet metal (saying this as a tin knocker) it'll be much lighter and much more robust. hand crank could be arranged with a square drive or something so it doesn't need to be attached always - and could even be turned with a drill. i don't know how well that would work without the numbers and considering the laws of thermodynamics ... but i think you may be able to get a net positive?
Try hooking it up to a geared bicycle rear wheel on a static frame, would love to see if it can power a washing machine or microwave for the home. One hours heavy exercise might be that's needed for a days power requirements.
You could try fixing a circular weight on the crank and attach a ratcheting pull cord so you could make it a pull start motion rather than a cumbersome cranking action?
I have an idea for you! What about using a foot-driven system. Like a bicycle pump which you set down on the floor and step on over and over, to make the pump work. A foot-pump type of setup makes it easy to generate much more energy without getting tired (just compare a simple bike pump using arm strength, as opposed to a foot-pump).
my first thought is to replace the crank handle with a clutch of some sort, and attach it to a windmill so the blades can freewheel when not needed to charge
If you know where to look you can find pretty good capacitors in a junk yard... HvAc units washers and dryers have pretty powerful capacitors often for free. They save a ton of power without them your ac lights would go dim or flip a breaker. More people should use capacitors in DC set ups with power inversion. I use a "run start" HvAc capacitor just after inversion with my solar unit. Helps chemical batteries with any type motor type device in some cases 20-30% efficiency.
Hi, awesome channel. The other day I stopped by to see the solar power wired to the super capacitors. And today I came here. I would like to ask a question. These super capatitors can hold the charge for how long until they discharge itself?
This device linked to the new heated clothing elements could be turned into survival gear . Heated and insulated sleeping bags in artic areas, in cars or on life boats?
ten mins is still faster than a battery charger..i would love to fit this into my Chrysler V6 Voyager.....im sick of buying batteries for it at almost $200 a pop. my question is ..i saw you had a solar panel on it for about a split second and the video moved on.....how long would the panel take to charge it up ?.. been watching your video's for years and just love what your doing. take care LS :). peace from NZ.
So serious question. Why not use a power driver or drill to crank the motor instead of the hand crank or as an alternative to the hand crank? Or a rechargeable battery similar to the ones used in saws or drills to charge the capacitors? Years ago my idea to use rechargeable batteries for drills and saws became standard and now are even being used in weed eaters ect. Hint: capacitors can also be used to bring old rechargeable batteries back to life.
how long will the box hold its charge? here is a thought - leave it hooked up in the vehicle. you only have to crank it one time, then the alternator will charge it for the next start. if the box holds the charge for a day or two, use it instead of a lead acid battery indefinitely (so long as you drive the vehicle every day or so).
nice!!! but the costs are expensive, may you did it with your diy supercapacitor technology?? or the comercial supercapacitors are better that your graphene/graphite SC?
Great job, man! Granted the kit would bigger but using a 0.8 horsepower (or less) treadmill motor and a CV/CC buck converter will charge the capacitors faster. You might have to figure out the gearbox build for it though.
What about using a Gear or Pulley System to get more oomph out of the short handle, basically the opposite of gear reduction so that each spin results in multiple cranks... Good Luck and great project....
great idea! Im going to build one to load my smartphone on longer hikings! but do you still use just one single diode for the motor? you should use a bridge rectifier! it's way more efficient! greetings from Augsburg Germany
Now if you could mount the hand crank in the car, you don't have to get out in the weather to jump start the capacitors if you need to use them. Another cool hack would be to change out the battery cables for posts mounted next to the box and have about 2' of jumper cables coming out of the box that you clamp onto the post that way if you need to jump a friend you can just pull the box out and hook up the jumper wires to their battery, or if you want to sit inside the truck and run a laptop you can put the box inside. I'm curious how well those 6 caps run your headlights at night.
Have you ever considered using a constant power DC-DC converter to keep the voltage flat and regulated for certain applications (to prevent the capacitor's exponential discharge curve) where undesirable?
All right...that's it, ...that's it... I've been watching your videos for the last three days, and can't stand it anymore. I'M SUBSCRIBING!!! :). Awesome stuff here! I want to build one of these. Time to drink some beer and watch more of your videos!.. How's those chickens doing?
to make the cranking time shorter just use a gear system for example like for every 1 rotation you make it has already rotated the motor 2-3 times like a bike chain and gears may need to redesign the box but keeping the hand crank small would keep it convenient
i imagine having a gear assembly might aide you something to increase the rate of rotation while not increasing it for yourself though i imagine it would get more difficult to turn
I am looking forward to your upgraded version. I want to put one of these permanently wired into my Land Rover. I want to mount it under a body panel, so I can stick a crank handle on and crank it if I ever run the battery dead using my winch etc etc. I could have a hole in the body panel, labelled "hand crank jump start" or something like that. I could just leave the crank handle in the cab until needed.
Great Build!!! Hey how about the option of using a cordless drill to crank it? If it could start your car if battery went dead would be a lifesaver if stranded. Going to need to build one of these. What is your estimated build cost?
I like that a lot. Ten to one if your battery is flat you'll be in the middle of nowhere. What I'd really like to see is one that could start my DT466.
Awsome video!! I would like to learn more about these capacitors..I'm thinking about a whole house backup system using batteries and I wonder if these super capacitors would be an asset
A bigger crank handle is just going to turn to the generator slower... What you want is a small gearbox with a fly-wheel. This will increase the crank speed while keeping up the momentum so you don't tire so easily. Think old telephone voltage generators from WWII. They measured about the same height as your box, had a small crank, and kept turning due to the flying wheel momentum.
Hi your work it's amazing. i have a doubt about the project. What are the specifications of generator? and how time do you turn of crank for charge the supercapacitor? I am from Chile. Sorry, if i my english is regular :) I am work in my tesis project, it's a system of emergency for turn on the car
Hum, with a gear box to speed it up a little, that could make a great emergency booster pack for cars. Un here in canada, we use them a lot, but it's always a hassle to recharge them and they the battery drys down and they become useless. I bet there is a great market for a compact system you could carry in the trunk and use it whenever needed.
When you started your car, the alternator would try to charge your capacitor bank like it was a battery. Did you have to turn your car off quickly so they don’t overheat or explode?
So awesome! Thanks for sharing. I can see so many uses for this.
I live in Saskatchewan, Canada, and this morning it is -30c with a -40c wind chill. There are so many times when even having the block heater plugged in doesn't make a difference when the battery is basically a block of acidic ice.
A little further North of where I am, a dead battery could mean a dead driver in the winter. This little device could save a lot of lives in the future!
Great job!
canada: cold kills you
italy: poverty kills you, hunger kills you, heartquakes kill you, rain kills you, volcanos kill you
damn man, you live better than we folks down here
The electrolyte in the capacitors could still freeze tho...
Ey, if it's that cold, why don't you give the battery a heater as well? I mean, if you're gonna hook it up to mains anyway...
@@olliestarkey6022 You don't know what poverty is unless live you're in a 3rd world country you stupid fuck
It will not save the driver at minus 40 degrees. Need a real system, not this toy. Such a system exists in Russia. For example: MSKA-108-16-P
Rated capacity: 108F
Rated voltage: 16V
Overall dimensions: 245x100x105 mm
How is it ensured that the alternator that gives 60 to 100A does not destroy the BMS, can it withstand such currents?
Very nice unit! I made one just like that using super caps and a small 3 phase motor. I think it had a 3 to 5A output. Very handy to carry in the trunk of your vehicle in case you end up with a dead battery. A++
what's the type of the capacitor
horashia I used 500F 2.7v caps on my 40w crank generator. I've since added a full cap bank using the balance board he shows in this video to the heavy duty crank generator I recently made. In the future I'll show it. I like how compact his unit is.
Would 120f 2.7 will work?
horashia
Place 2 cap banks of 6 in parallel.
M2ripper Metin2 Sure does.
Truly some awesome energy conversion there.. whether hand cranking over time to facilitate a quick power hungry jump start or when you used the drill, which was definitely something to step back and sort of go "whoa" over. This is one of those things everyone needs to own. These would also be great for people in countries with poor power distribution. Someone could just ride a bike generator for a little while to have some light, or even run an inverter for a little while like you did for various devices. If I was in that kind of situation I'd pedal my brains out and just look at it as daily exercise.
I just wanted to thank you for sharing all of the amazing things that you do with the rest of us. You research is truly inspiring.
Man you should design a commercial unit for people to jump cars with a little cranking. It could save lives.
Okay, thought this be Roadrunner Physics... But honest to God, you've opened my eyes to a segment of DIY that's so useful... Well done young man, very well done indeed. You've made a believer. I WILL share you on my Facebook page.
My buddy had this steering wheel with a ball attached like you would find on a sport fishing boat. The attached ball or knob allowed for amazing grip of the wheel during the action of the big blue tuna bight . I say all that to say that I could not imagine a better hand crank than that setup. I love your videos!
something with some gearing to make for a lot fewer turns of a longer crank with (obviously) more input energy, as it looked like the existing setup was super easy to spin. so I would think you could go in that direction a fair bit and still have something that wouldn't be prohibitively hard to crank. overall super impressive!
Yes, it was very easy to spin. A better geared generator with a large size crank will be a much better fit for this project.
Joanna, that has a worm gear. You cannot spin the output shaft of a worm gear assembly and spit the motor. Worm gear will act as a rack in that case.
Joanna Brown You are not spinning a wormgear from the output shaft.
I had this idea for 2-3 years. I am glad that somebody finally did it. Mine ivolves a solar panel, and I hope that soon I will have time to post it on Instructables.... Thanks for the great video, and your hard work!
this is an amazing jump starter kit thingy, you dont have to worry about keeping it charged!
Ten minutes of cranking is not bad to start a dead car 🚗 pixie trapper box
That would be my cardio and arms workout for the day. ;-p
haha heck yeah!
Ten minutes is great especially if stuck out in a remote location several hours walk from the nearest help!
walter and jesse would BEG for one of these
杨恒 yeah bitch magnets!
Attaching something like an arc lighter to the output would make for a really good survival tool for starting fires
Dude... I so want to try this with my boys. A friend sent me your channel because I've been experimenting with some bootleg phone chargers for emergencies using a 9V battery & endcap, usb mini motherboard/plug into an a phone charger. Very cool channel.
Thank you, man. The world is a better place when ppl like u around with such projects. Please build a bigger one ))
You could use on old cordless drill motor and gearbox. If you find a good drill it will have a 2 speed gearbox. Make sure you can physically turn the chuck on the drill before you buy it because some have a braking mechanism to keep them from turning when off. With a drill chuck on the end of the box you can put just about any kind of handle on it. May be handy to hook other projects to. Keep up the great work! I learn a lot from this channel.
So very cool. You should go into production with that little device. Its brilliant. Just absolutely brilliant.
I like how precise you are in your movements. Do you study martial arts, yoga, or other type of regular physical training?
Excellent project... Can you make one of the batteryless jump starters that use the leftover energy from a dying battery to jump-start a car?
Great demo !
It's incredible what super capacitors can hold nowadays.
That should increase your solar product line quite quite substantially.
Its always fun to see your stuff , with a bank large enough with a alternator stationary bike you could ride a home while staying lean.
hey lazer what you can do is run 2-3 generator motors at a time off of a small gear and chain then run a bigger crank to make up for lost torque be sure to wire the generators in parallel
Love projects like the one you made, making your own energi is always interesting to me.
Very nice! Is the protection circuit just some zener diode with a transistor and an LED in the overvoltage shorting path ?
Thanks for a great video.
Great voice over, great photography. not overly hyped.
5 stars, matey !
Awesome! After seeing your earlier videos on the capacitors, and my experience with a tiny lithium jumpstart pack (and measuring its not so great CCA), I was thinking on making such a box with a handcrank on it to always have an option to start the car, also when you are on your own while travelling. And now I see you already did this!
However, I would add a couple of solar cells on it, so that it could charge be itself when you leave it behind the window. Just some cells which combined voltage is below the max voltage of the supercaps and you only need a diode, so no regulators or anything.
Roland I
...No fuse on the cigarette lighter output port? With a bank of supercaps? Exciting times ahead :-)
hahahahaha, I literally spit my coffee everywhere!!!
It's fine without it.
Many appliances that plug into such ports already have some sort of integrated fuse, so the factor of damaging such appliances is null. However, damage may occur to the superbank itself in certain situations.
@@COVENANT69 The sort of product that cheaps out on a fuse is the sort of product that is likely to incur a fault. With such high current potential why risk it, how much is a fuse? 10c?
If those super caps short out some how, Say you drop a wrench on those posts, you could be in for a world of hurt. It's probably not so fun having copper blobs scraped off your bones...
I will build one of these as soon as I can and have it in my car... the problem with battery based jumpers is that when you really need them, they are either drained or dead... and no one has the time to maintain them by assuring its battery is charged or fresh... I assume this thing can discharge and survive months of living in the trunk of the car...
really cool gadget... thanx!
cheers!
Talk about a useful handcrank power box. That should be in the back of every loggers toolbox in their pickup bed.
always great work and nice hang music in the intro.thanks for your labors and sharing freely .a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year to you and yours
I just chain watched a bunch of your videos, and you have great ideas! tons of these could apply directly to drag cars that don't run alternators and quickly topping off your battery inside the car between runs is a huge bonus! Great stuff
That's an awesome project. Add a solar quick connect or hook the to the top post.
Side question perhaps another experiment, do you think a worn out door lock motor could be boosted with a capacitor? So instead of replacing it the capacitor could give it that extra emphh to unlock, lock. Thanks for entertaining the idea.
Would putting 12v of solar cells on one side of the box work? Could keep the box by a window to charge when you weren't using it, and to augment cranking it when you needed to do that. Nice little project. I especially liked you running the small inverter off of it.
Great video, what are you using to regulate the voltage going into that capacitors when charging? That motor can produce around 40V, and the caps should only be getting 16 or so.
GREAT VIDEO..... Can you use GEARING on this to produce more power for less amount of cranking? Oh and the word ur looking for is Capacitance.
This is great man! You should patent it and make a commercial version 👍💯. The ones on the market don’t have a cranking hand generator.
Fun build! With all that extra space, I'd install some lighting inside the box itself with a switch to control it. And of course, some type of short circuit protection.
Very cool and great work!! Hook those caps up to an atmospheric antennae....constant charging using the Earth circuit. No cranking...no spinning anything :)
That is great... Very well done. Maybe a round disk connected to the motor with a handle on the disk? You could make the disk as big as you like also some gears that make every turn of the handle multiplied.
Excellent idea, I have been using a super Capacitor battery on my car for four years now. I have a spare set of Capacitors and will build one similar to this! Thank you!
Which kind of capacitor used
Wow that's a really neat idea! Also impressive it could start the vehicle.
A geared rod can be easier on the recharge person when the generator has a weighted flywheel. One push is then followed by continued generator rotations. Ratcheted gear box can be used with the rod or half turned handle you have now. Scissored foot pedal is alt with return spring. This taps into your weight combined with leg power. Pneumatics can feed an air to an air driven motor attached to the pack when mounted in car. So many possibilities.
Several years ago Harbor Freight was selling several hand crank gadgets to charge cell phones. They used a tiny, non-descript motor but what was the key was the multiple gears. Stepper motors produce high ac voltage but the very low torque made them useless for me. What does work well for generators, for me anyway, is geared motors with significant torque. A quarter turn will shoot the voltage up there and they are capable of doing real work.
I watch this and think about the generator itself. first a flywheel, and some sort of gearing/jack shaft setup. so your 1 crank rotation you can get say 10 generator arbor rotations.
wow that is the perfect thing for those below freezing mornings when my truck needs just more juice to turn over... are you gunna build some for sale? I've never soldered anything in my life.
Awesome build and neat jumper and light tool!
Definitely a future project to build. I can envision many applications. Thank you for this video.
How are you and what is new ?
Found a better hand crank ?
Could you use a Microwave turntable motor in some way ?
I noticed there are many variations of these turntable motors not all the same in design.
Hope you are well and love to see new ideas !
UK man trying and testing
with a little r&d i think this could make a fine backpack model with enough energy to last quite a while doing a good amount of work. integrated gooseneck flashlight, integrated lithium battery, battery charger for cordless items, permanent volt meters. if made of 22 gauge sheet metal (saying this as a tin knocker) it'll be much lighter and much more robust. hand crank could be arranged with a square drive or something so it doesn't need to be attached always - and could even be turned with a drill. i don't know how well that would work without the numbers and considering the laws of thermodynamics ... but i think you may be able to get a net positive?
nice project laser, a 10 to 1 pulley setup would lower crank time down. maybe go 4 to 1 so the pulley isn't so big.
great idea, I love freee energy ideas, have you thought of using 18650 batterys the stored power would last much longer
You're making some interesting technical builds, I'd like to see You couple that with morally ethical material choices.
Such as?
Love it!!! Bordering on can't live without it
Nice. Put some solid state capacitors in there and this thing would be a life saver in cold weather.
Try hooking it up to a geared bicycle rear wheel on a static frame, would love to see if it can power a washing machine or microwave for the home. One hours heavy exercise might be that's needed for a days power requirements.
Impressive, I figured you would just be jumping a low battery but full replacement that's impressive.
You could try fixing a circular weight on the crank and attach a ratcheting pull cord so you could make it a pull start motion rather than a cumbersome cranking action?
I have an idea for you! What about using a foot-driven system. Like a bicycle pump which you set down on the floor and step on over and over, to make the pump work. A foot-pump type of setup makes it easy to generate much more energy without getting tired (just compare a simple bike pump using arm strength, as opposed to a foot-pump).
Impressive! Can be very useful as an emergency power unit for your home, car etc.
Everyone needs something like this in their trunk. A hand crank jump starter would be amazing when you have a dead battery in the middle of nowhere.
my first thought is to replace the crank handle with a clutch of some sort, and attach it to a windmill so the blades can freewheel when not needed to charge
This Is Your Best Work Yet!
This was a really good one lasersaber.
If you know where to look you can find pretty good capacitors in a junk yard... HvAc units washers and dryers have pretty powerful capacitors often for free. They save a ton of power without them your ac lights would go dim or flip a breaker. More people should use capacitors in DC set ups with power inversion. I use a "run start" HvAc capacitor just after inversion with my solar unit. Helps chemical batteries with any type motor type device in some cases 20-30% efficiency.
Hi, awesome channel.
The other day I stopped by to see the solar power wired to the super capacitors.
And today I came here.
I would like to ask a question.
These super capatitors can hold the charge for how long until they discharge itself?
This device linked to the new heated clothing elements could be turned into survival gear . Heated and insulated sleeping bags in artic areas, in cars or on life boats?
How about using foot pedals, wouldn't that give a bit more juice pr minute?
Btw, I love this project!
ten mins is still faster than a battery charger..i would love to fit this into my Chrysler V6 Voyager.....im sick of buying batteries for it at almost $200 a pop.
my question is ..i saw you had a solar panel on it for about a split second and the video moved on.....how long would the panel take to charge it up ?..
been watching your video's for years and just love what your doing.
take care LS :).
peace from NZ.
check out how much power a microwave turn table motor puts out,. they make great hand crank generators.
So serious question. Why not use a power driver or drill to crank the motor instead of the hand crank or as an alternative to the hand crank? Or a rechargeable battery similar to the ones used in saws or drills to charge the capacitors? Years ago my idea to use rechargeable batteries for drills and saws became standard and now are even being used in weed eaters ect. Hint: capacitors can also be used to bring old rechargeable batteries back to life.
how long will the box hold its charge? here is a thought - leave it hooked up in the vehicle. you only have to crank it one time, then the alternator will charge it for the next start. if the box holds the charge for a day or two, use it instead of a lead acid battery indefinitely (so long as you drive the vehicle every day or so).
nice!!! but the costs are expensive, may you did it with your diy supercapacitor technology?? or the comercial supercapacitors are better that your graphene/graphite SC?
Great job, man! Granted the kit would bigger but using a 0.8 horsepower (or less) treadmill motor and a CV/CC buck converter will charge the capacitors faster. You might have to figure out the gearbox build for it though.
how many revolution of crank you have to put to load it fully ? what sfull storage in joules / kwh. btw. great idea and nice builid you made.
What about using a Gear or Pulley System to get more oomph out of the short handle, basically the opposite of gear reduction so that each spin results in multiple cranks... Good Luck and great project....
great idea! Im going to build one to load my smartphone on longer hikings! but do you still use just one single diode for the motor? you should use a bridge rectifier! it's way more efficient! greetings from Augsburg Germany
I didn't see this project on your website for the components... just the mini box.
Now if you could mount the hand crank in the car, you don't have to get out in the weather to jump start the capacitors if you need to use them. Another cool hack would be to change out the battery cables for posts mounted next to the box and have about 2' of jumper cables coming out of the box that you clamp onto the post that way if you need to jump a friend you can just pull the box out and hook up the jumper wires to their battery, or if you want to sit inside the truck and run a laptop you can put the box inside. I'm curious how well those 6 caps run your headlights at night.
Have you ever considered using a constant power DC-DC converter to keep the voltage flat and regulated for certain applications (to prevent the capacitor's exponential discharge curve) where undesirable?
All right...that's it, ...that's it... I've been watching your videos for the last three days, and can't stand it anymore. I'M SUBSCRIBING!!! :). Awesome stuff here! I want to build one of these. Time to drink some beer and watch more of your videos!.. How's those chickens doing?
to make the cranking time shorter just use a gear system for example like for every 1 rotation you make it has already rotated the motor 2-3 times like a bike chain and gears may need to redesign the box but keeping the hand crank small would keep it convenient
i imagine having a gear assembly might aide you something to increase the rate of rotation while not increasing it for yourself though i imagine it would get more difficult to turn
Can you power a Washer/Dryer Machines? If it does that would be very helpful and awesome!
You should put the handcrank on the front of your Honda... kicking it old skool
I am looking forward to your upgraded version. I want to put one of these permanently wired into my Land Rover. I want to mount it under a body panel, so I can stick a crank handle on and crank it if I ever run the battery dead using my winch etc etc. I could have a hole in the body panel, labelled "hand crank jump start" or something like that. I could just leave the crank handle in the cab until needed.
Great Build!!! Hey how about the option of using a cordless drill to crank it? If it could start your car if battery went dead would be a lifesaver if stranded. Going to need to build one of these. What is your estimated build cost?
I wonder if a planetary gear reduction can be used to over drive the handle. or just a over drive gear set to simplify it.
I like that a lot. Ten to one if your battery is flat you'll be in the middle of nowhere. What I'd really like to see is one that could start my DT466.
Awsome video!! I would like to learn more about these capacitors..I'm thinking about a whole house backup system using batteries and I wonder if these super capacitors would be an asset
A bigger crank handle is just going to turn to the generator slower... What you want is a small gearbox with a fly-wheel. This will increase the crank speed while keeping up the momentum so you don't tire so easily. Think old telephone voltage generators from WWII. They measured about the same height as your box, had a small crank, and kept turning due to the flying wheel momentum.
Multiple generator units with a larger handle to offset the opposing mechanical force.
More power in the bank means a faster charge, yeah?
Hi your work it's amazing. i have a doubt about the project. What are the specifications of generator? and how time do you turn of crank for charge the supercapacitor?
I am from Chile. Sorry, if i my english is regular :)
I am work in my tesis project, it's a system of emergency for turn on the car
you have revolutionised electric cycles, you just don't know it yet.
You should feel real proud of your self mate . That's awesome to start a v6🤓
Hum, with a gear box to speed it up a little, that could make a great emergency booster pack for cars. Un here in canada, we use them a lot, but it's always a hassle to recharge them and they the battery drys down and they become useless. I bet there is a great market for a compact system you could carry in the trunk and use it whenever needed.
i think you should use some sort of gear mechanism between crank handle and the crank generator, this will definitely reduce the charging time
Use a bridge rectifier so you dont need to worry about cranking direction ;)
This is really one of the coolest things I've seen on TH-cam! Two thumbs way up, because I do not have three.....do big toes count?
When you started your car, the alternator would try to charge your capacitor bank like it was a battery. Did you have to turn your car off quickly so they don’t overheat or explode?
This is a fantastic invention.