DIY Hand Crank Capacitor BoostBox Starts V6 - Hand Crank BoostPack
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- This easy to make box uses no batteries but can still power a lot of stuff. It really is a very versatile little BoostPack based device. It would be the perfect thing to have on hand in times of emergency.
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Man you should design a commercial unit for people to jump cars with a little cranking. It could save lives.
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
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!
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.
Talk about a useful handcrank power box. That should be in the back of every loggers toolbox in their pickup bed.
this is an amazing jump starter kit thingy, you dont have to worry about keeping it charged!
You should put the handcrank on the front of your Honda... kicking it old skool
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.
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.
So very cool. You should go into production with that little device. Its brilliant. Just absolutely brilliant.
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.
Nice. Put some solid state capacitors in there and this thing would be a life saver in cold weather.
Great demo !
It's incredible what super capacitors can hold nowadays.
That should increase your solar product line quite quite substantially.
Attaching something like an arc lighter to the output would make for a really good survival tool for starting fires
you have revolutionised electric cycles, you just don't know it yet.
...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...
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.
This was a really good one lasersaber.
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.
On an old WWII movie about the Phillipines I remember seeing a hand crank generator being used to power a two way radio. Used some metal legs and was used by both arms to power it. It might have been possible to use ones legs to do the same thing with less effort. Larger muscles anyway. I'd use legs made of pvc pipe and fittings, maybe one inch or so.
Another option might be to use something like a 5 gallon bucket to mount the capacitors and some kind of pedal system, similar to bike pedals.
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 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.
Impressive! Can be very useful as an emergency power unit for your home, car etc.
my god this is one off those things that save your ass in a bad situation, i must build some like this, you can crank you can charge you dont get stuck
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!
Thanks for a great video.
Great voice over, great photography. not overly hyped.
5 stars, matey !
im impressed all to hell. we started out with cars and a crank and now were back to a crank and a car. should do a permanent mount under the hood, longer crank, less cranking involved before the caps are charged.
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.
Impressive, I figured you would just be jumping a low battery but full replacement that's impressive.
Wow that's a really neat idea! Also impressive it could start the vehicle.
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
Love it!!! Bordering on can't live without it
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
Use a bridge rectifier so you dont need to worry about cranking direction ;)
seriously cool & useful little invention.
This Is Your Best Work Yet!
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.
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
Cool! An exercise bike as a crank! Not portable but efficient! Rig a quick connect gear.
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.
You could figure out the energy of those caps with math. (C*V^2)/2 gives joules. 1 joule is 1 watt*second. Do the conversion for watt hours or amp hours.
That is the Coolest Cigarette Lighter that I have ever seen !
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.
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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.
Definitely a future project to build. I can envision many applications. Thank you for this video.
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.
You're making some interesting technical builds, I'd like to see You couple that with morally ethical material choices.
Such as?
Dear Mr. Saber sir, this was really great, I should like to build one, but, I want to wait for your next version1.01, Thanks much, pierre from New Mexico
You could put one of those LED lamps inside, it would work well with the clear cover
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?
Nice idea.. i feel like that box could have been a lot smaller in size tho.. other than that.. well done.
Maybe you alt to try instead of a hand crank, try a spring actuated return foot pump with a 10 pound fly wheel. It would make this generator stress free for most people. Just my opinion. Good day
Have the hand crank connected to gears, with the right ratio you can spin the generator motor faster depending how much work you want to put in
You should feel real proud of your self mate . That's awesome to start a v6🤓
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 think having battery terminals on this kind of device is pointless since it is best served as a emergency starter. Couple of alligator clips would suit it much better in my opinion.
I like the idea, more so, I imagined something like this myself recently, I am glad to see it comes to life.
you should have hooked the drill up to the generator! come on man! use your brain. lol
;-)
no such thing as overunity. come on man use your noodle.
True, but it would be fun to try it.
He was joking... I hope :)
lasersaber obviously he was being silly but if you could do it, that would make a great video, especially if you could see the volt meter! Come on, let's see how long the energy can be recycled for :)
Adding electric brushless motor to crank and automatic switch to recharge capacitor when level is too low. creating a never ending cycle of available power.
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.
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?
put some gearing, a flywheel and a larger motor as the generator. that should reduce the cranking time, the flywheel will help with some momentum when you get tired so you dont need to stop completely
u could add gearbox to the hand cranks so that u make higher force but less time , u could even use foot pedal and make pedalling to generate electricity
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?
Thats well cool, i was going to buy another battery boost pack for my car as i keep letting it go flat. This would be much easier!! Just have to make sure it doesn't fry the ecu!
Holy Batman. U should make this as commercial product
Yeah with a small solar panel under the lexan cover to keep it topped up.
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.
I'd like to see these used in an ebike - charge them up by running the pedals, tap them to propel yourself with a electric motor on a wheel, then pedal some more to recharge them.
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
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?
you should mount the crank on the top of the box and make it a little deeper. This way the box would not have to be taken out of the car in order to be charged. it would also allow more space for capacitor banks if placed sideways and stacked vertically.
Erosion139. he would better buying ultra caps on. kinda suprised these tiny caps can start the car
May as well continue buying the same caps since he started with those. Yes Ultracaps would be better but the caps he is using seem to work. May as well build upon the caps he already has.
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
You need to mount that just above the bumper behind the grille and get an olde timey hand crank for a model T or something.
Awesome handcrank flashlight. Use a car's headlamp next.
I saw a similar setup a few years ago.
It would be really cool to implement this in racing vehicles.
i think you should use some sort of gear mechanism between crank handle and the crank generator, this will definitely reduce the charging time
Uhh, That was a lot of corrosion on your car battery. I would clean that before you have a problem starting your car.
Looks like we found one of his battery issue. He should buy one of those 5 Dollar terminal cleaners.
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A load power crank generator !
For a vehicle outlet ! Cheap ! Affordable !
And dead batteries will be a thing of the past !
Same concept of how I run no battery on motorcycle. Few capacitors to store charge from kick start. Have a lawn mower that uses similar starting tech to charge capacitors.
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.
Very nice! Is the protection circuit just some zener diode with a transistor and an LED in the overvoltage shorting path ?
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I didn't see this project on your website for the components... just the mini box.
A foot crank, kind of like a foot pump but works the generator like a trains crank arm to move the wheels.
I suppose you could add another handcrank generator or 2, and link them together to the one handcrank, so you have all 3 charging at once. I figure with a bigger handle, you'd have more leverage.
nice idea to create a car "battery" so even if it discharges ...you just hand crank it and you've got the power :P
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....
Wow! Really like the BoostBox, great work!!!
you can even build a bycicle version of it, like the one in the "billions in change" video
I think i might have to make this for a friend as she tends to leave her lights on all the time and save me from going over giving her a jump every time.
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.
make one that spins a motor that does the cranking :)
Then build a monitor that monitors the lights turning off and turn the motor crank on, which then will automatically charge itself. This way you can use the energy and never have to charge it again.
Double the # of capacitors and use a planetary type mechanism similar to a cordless drill, i think the handle length doesnt matter, to me yours looks perfect
you should add gearing to the crank and have that turn the motor, might b hard to start but should make charging faster
if your going to use this for boosting cars you should upgrade the wire size between the battery posts and the capacitor bank as well as beefing up the connections on the circuit board between the caps
That hand crank generator looks very much like a cordless drill motor. I wonder if it is...
i like the new boost pack. its so efficient!
I am sure someone has pointed out by now that you could find a cordless drill and charge it directly without using an inverter.
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.
What about a circuit so you can charge them in parallel but discharge them in series. You could charge them from a "dead" car battery as long as its more than 5v, you can step it down for the caps. Once they are all charged, in a series circuit it could output enough the start the car (which the dead battery wouldn't have been able to do).