On a different note... When you boost voltage don't you get a drop in current? Power is VxI so wouldn't the current drop as a result?
This whole campaign is really frustrating to watch. There is clearly conflict of interest from people whom they interview.
Of course.
The Indiegogo video has the former CEO of K-Mart, because he's on the Batteriser board as the Chief Strategy Officer.
And it seems all the professors they are getting to support it are colleagues.
It's a big circle jerk thinking they have the greatest invention in historyQuoteDoes anyone know how much money is actually involved in this company?
No idea. But clearly they are not just relying on the Indiegogo money. The money they must have already spent on the professional videos and marketing must be a lot. I suspect they don't really need the Indiegogo money, it's probably just a big pre-sales marketing vehicle and looks good to future investors.
If one were to assume that the time versus the voltage drop is a linear function
The time it takes for the battery voltage to drop by 0.1V is longer at lower voltages versus at higher voltages.
It is smarter to build the electronic into the battery: http://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Kentli%20AA%202800mWh%20%28Blue%29%20UK.html
Yeah, that's certainly at the forefront of the controversy. I did find it interesting that they have considered that it could be added to a battery during manufacture. I assume if that were to happen it could be done very cheaply since it would be effectively disposable single use.
Never going to happen, even if it cost nothing to integrate into the battery, because of the simple fact that it would render all battery guages in every product non-functional. Actually worse than non-functional, it would show 100% all the time and then your product dies instantly. No one would buy such a battery that did this.
The best strategy I think is to keep encouraging young and old people alike to foster an interest in basic science and electronics with places like EEVBLOG where people from all walks of life can learn. If anything, this Batteriser debate has done more to help promote EEVBlog than it has to market Batteriser. This is the best thing about having this open forum.
The more we discuss these and other projects, the more videos by Dave and others, the higher the search rank in Google, the word will get out to those who want to hear it. People have to want to hear it though. You can't force a fool to keep their money.
This shows that there are scenarios (possibly theoretical only) where the serial resistance does matter, even if we measure the voltage at the source.
Weirdly enough: Those are the exact same devices that EEVBLOG forum members predicted the batteriser might be worth using with.
It would appear their 800% claim came from this video.
13% battery, being boosted to 1.5volts, so the indicator shows 100%...
I guess seeing as batteries store 1.5volts of energy, it all makes sense!
The Garmin Dakota is a pretty old GPS. It can be had off Amazon, but I'm not sure about local availability.
I just took a look at the "batteriser" site. Wow, just wow! A group of apparently successful, educated people running this! An awful lot of money has been spent on marketing and production "values." I wonder what kind of insurance they have, it's a class-action lawsuit waiting to happen.
I am tempted to run down a pair of actual batteries, while logging the voltage all the way. That will have to wait until the weekend though.
I'm not sure if anyone saw this but on the Batterizer video the dude has his oscilloscope hooked up to the test signal contacts on the oscilloscope which are used for probe compensation. The square wave looked pretty shitty.
Edit: Just read all the post comments.. Dave mentions it at sometime
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