narrcissuss
New Member
Hi guys,
I’m a sophomore physics student trying to design a mechanically driven EAP actuator propulsion system and I’m stuck. First off my understand of electrical circuits is rather limited at this point but the design is relatively simply, here’s gist of it. The system is driven by the same means as a bicycle (pedals and crank) that attach to a dynamo generator to charge an array of batteries to power a circuit board causing the EAP to actuate. The portion of this I’m stuck on is the charging and discharging of the batteries. I’ve read some posts here and there and there seems to be a pretty strong argument for using a capacitor in place of a battery array but all the same I’d like to get some opinion on how to set up the battery array. The charging of the array seems rather simple setting up the charger to run off the dynamo but the process of discharging the batteries while they remain on the charger escapes me. Any info that would clear this up would be great.
I’m a sophomore physics student trying to design a mechanically driven EAP actuator propulsion system and I’m stuck. First off my understand of electrical circuits is rather limited at this point but the design is relatively simply, here’s gist of it. The system is driven by the same means as a bicycle (pedals and crank) that attach to a dynamo generator to charge an array of batteries to power a circuit board causing the EAP to actuate. The portion of this I’m stuck on is the charging and discharging of the batteries. I’ve read some posts here and there and there seems to be a pretty strong argument for using a capacitor in place of a battery array but all the same I’d like to get some opinion on how to set up the battery array. The charging of the array seems rather simple setting up the charger to run off the dynamo but the process of discharging the batteries while they remain on the charger escapes me. Any info that would clear this up would be great.