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Here are some simple electrical converters that may help you.

I found another cool ‘how to’ pdf file on the net that would show how to create your own home made batteries that will last almost forever.

I did finally get around to testing this and I have posted it below. It works!!!!!

Very cool. Try it yourself.

You can run as many of these together as you want to create as much energy as you want…even to charge a 12 volt battery bank. YeeeHaaa!

You could for example run 12, 14, 24 of them and they would keep your 12 volt battery bank fully charged. Now, what could be cooler then that?

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The pic on the left shows the small LED lit up very bright. Very cool. The pic on the right shows a piece of copper pipe that I bought and cut into sections to use for these cool projects. I also used flat aluminum stock bar and cut it to the lengths I needed. For the aluminum you could also use like the leg of an old lawn chair…You know one with the web in it that is trashed that you have not thrown out yet;-p

The pic on the left shows the volt meter and 3.364 (under load from the LED) Very useable energy!

The pic on the right shows a plasic container I used. I put bleach and water into it, cut 1 piece of copper tube 6″ long. The same with the aluminum stock. I put them into the bleach and water (making sure they did not touch!) and then connected them together to double my volts output.

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There are different ways to connect your battery bank or cells depending on what you are trying to achieve.

“How am I supposed to connect my battery if I want to double the capacity?”, or similar questions. It can be confusing if you’ve never done it, but hopefully this’ll make it simpler. Be sure to read the important notes at the bottom to protect yourself
from damaging any equipment! Connecting in Series
When connecting your batteries in Series you are doubling the voltage while maintaining the same capacity rating (amp hours). This might be used in a scooter, Power Wheels kids vehicle, or other applications.
Just use a jumper cable between the negative of the first battery and the positive of the second battery. Run your negative wire off of open connector of the first battery and your positive off of the open connector on your second battery.

Connecting in Parallel
When connecting in Parallel you are doubling the capacity (amp hours) of the battery while maintaining the voltage of one of the individual batteries. This would be used in applications such as laptop batteries, some scooters, some ups backups, etc. Use a jumper cable between the positives of both batteries and another jumper cable between the negatives of both batteries. Connect your positive and negative wires to the same battery to run to your application.

Important notes:
When connecting batteries in a pack there are some important things to keep in mind -

- Find out the requirements of your application. For example:
Don’t double the capacity on your Power Wheels vehicle if you’re not supposed to…you could burn up the engine. Follow the recommended guidelines for your application.

- Don’t use two different chemistries when connecting a pack. Usually the voltages will be different, but more importantly the charge rates will be different and the capacities may be different, thus resulting in a shortened life span.

- Try to match capacities as much as possible. When connecting batteries in a pack you should try to match the capacities as much as possible to avoid discharging one battery quicker than another. A pack operates at a combined voltage so your one cell that discharges quicker will likely discharge deeper than it may be able to recover from.

“Used by permission, - Zbattery.com

I put the Amatek beside the Wind Blue Alternator for this video. In the video it looks like the alternator will out perform the Amatek however in all fairness the Amatek is only using 3 blades which makes it take more wind then the Alternator with 6 blades. The more blades the easier its starts to spin in lower winds. (at least here @ my location)

The Amatek was quickly taken down after this video as there was no way this small thin tower would be able to handle the stress from the wind today.

On this rare day we actually have some wind here in New Buffalo Michigan. The 6 Blades are spinning like crazy. I am worried that the torque from the 6 blades might rip the tower apart.

Last night I ran the already low battery bank to the point of being DOA. I hope that I didnt wreck them as I ran them so low before correcting some problems I had with wiring.

Even at the top of the ladder here next to the garage ( 3 feet from the blades) you can not hear any wind from the blades. Nice!

Anyway, there is still alot of work to do and testing on this.

I shot 2 videos on this today for this document.

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