Emergency Power – Survival Style

What would you say if I told you it is possible to build an effective simple battery charger for an emergency backup battery that is cheap, has no moving parts, has no generator, works day or night, and has no solar cells and when weather conditions worsens, the better it works?

如果我们能够利用这种自由能量,并在飓风之后使用它在我们没有其他方法之后在我们的处于此次活动后向您的紧急电池充电时使用?

如果我告诉你大多数火腿已经拥有这个充电系统的主要组成部分已经安装在他们的运营位置?

Most all of us have learned to pick up our coax and to tap the PL-259 connector against the case of the radio or ground to bleed off this charge before connecting it to our radio equipment.

How few of us have ever been forced into a situation to have to think about how we can turn this everyday static problem into free energy?

众所周知的事实是,巨大的电荷可以在长线天线上积聚,电线越长,它将构建的电荷越多。大多数火腿认为这是一个劣势。我想进一步探索如何将其转化为紧急备用电源和荒野无线电能量的明显优势的可能性。

I know that our antennas are supposed to intercept the vertical DC current coming down from the sky. This typically represents a high voltage at a few micro amps (the higher up your antenna is located off the ground, the higher the voltage values on your antenna.)

We can further validate this information by trying this little experiment that only a ham operator would actually be caught doing:

首先让我们从天线上挂上一个NE-2灯泡,然后在黑暗的房间里观看灯泡。它应该重复开始闪烁。一旦看到灯泡闪烁,尝试串联串联一些NE-2灯泡,以确定您的天线线可以产生多少电量。对于那些可能不确定的人可能是什么样子,这是照片:

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You can “approximate” the voltage available by adding more NE-2 light bulbs into the circuit chain until they won’t flash anymore.

In this experiment, we can assume that each bulb adds about 100V to the trigger voltage. If you can persuade a series chain of 10 bulbs to blink, then your antenna is probably putting out at least several hundred volts, maybe even a 1000V!

Let’s start this project by choosing a good marine battery. Marine batteries will typically hold a charge longer than regular car batteries. Regular car batteries can loose a charge just sitting around at a rate of almost 2 amps a day… This means precious backup power will be literally lost into thin air! Our objective in this situation is to store as much emergency backup power in reserve as possible, for the longest period of time possible.

Generally speaking, batteries that are rated in “reserve minutes” will typically outlast batteries that are rated in “crank amps.”

Next you will need a working spark plug. I prefer the V groove type, but any old spark plug will work just fine. Start by hooking up the spark plug tip to the end of your antenna wire (antenna wire described later) and then run the ground end of the spark plug (where the threads are) into the top cap of a 12-volt automotive coil. Any old salvaged working coil will do. (Of course, except for the one your wife currently uses in her car.)

It is important to choose only insulated antenna wire for this project, as this will work best. The wire should be completely insulated from end to end with no breaks or soldered connections anywhere in-between. It doesn’t seem to make any difference whether you lay it out in a straight line, is a looped antenna configuration, or if it weaves back and forth. Length is the key, not its footprint size.

Old discarded phone line, old cable TV coax, practically any wire that is insulated and long will provide satisfactory results provided that you don’t tear the neighbor’s cable TV wire out of his lawn, you shouldn’t have any problems using any type of insulated wire for this project.

要将线圈连接到电池,我们将使用通常连接到汽车中的点的汽车线圈的底部连接器。这将连接到紧急电池的正面。电池的负面柱子简单地挂在良好的地球上。

您可以通过将临时接地杆进入地球,然后将地面直接连接到电池上的负柱中,使其在现场,荒野或便携式无线电操作中进行工作。

接下来,我们安装一个1到3 KV电容器。的capacitor value will work best if it is around a few pico-farads like those typically found in the horizontal section of a television chassis. The capacitor is then connected from ground back to the wire where the top of the spark plug is connected to the antenna.

除了电池的地面柱外,没有任何东西应该是触摸的地面。约。200英尺的绝缘电线每2或3天将完全充电12伏深周期!一千英尺的电线将更快地做到这一点,但电压将接近致命的水平。

This works as a charging system because the long antenna wire acts like a capacitor building an electric charge on the antenna wire. When a few thousand volts are reached, it will be discharge by “sparking” across the spark plug. The spark plug then delivers the electric charge to the coil, which in turn “downconverts” it to a few hundred volts. The electricity is then injected into the battery from the coil. The coil works by “pulsing” the charge into the battery at regular discharge intervals.

天气控制在白天或夜晚的任何时候在空中静电在空中有多少静电。然后可以提供这种电力来充电。

The real advantage of this particular charging system during an emergency situation is that the worst the weather gets, the more electricity you will have at your disposal for charging your battery.

When conditions such as wind and super cold air are frequently persistent, you will be able to weld the fillings in your teeth together! …Be careful!

The higher you get the insulated wire of the ground, the better it will work in capturing DC current from the air for this highly effective, but low cost emergency battery charging system.