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Wireless Power Supplies!


adsl1981

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Hello,

 

Im wondering if there is anyway of making a wireless power supply IE transmiting power without cables ? im doing it for a littele experiment.

 

Thanks you guys for all my help on the other question aswell :D !

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You could put loadsa of smaller power sources together (as I_A said).

 

As for "beams" well that does kinda exist as far as light "beams" from the sun and then using a solar panel to convert that into electrical energy, however you will get 240V out of those unless you had a lot and a lot of solar panels on a very bright day!

 

Or NMajik idea of making a spark cover the distance, not so practical as the spark could jump, a high voltage is needed before hand (although 240V through transformers would do) and obviously it wouldn't cover very long distances and there could be nothing but air between transmitter and receiver.

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Two methods of cable-less power transmission being considered for future use are; induction (already used in small-scale use), And high energy microwave, where the example quoted was a solar power collecting satellite beaming the enegy to earth as microwaves.

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So the only practical solution appears ro either lugging batteries around, or converting electrical energy into radiated energy, but dont stand in the way of the radiation, or you will fry your family jewels. Conversion efficiency, concentration and directional control would be the problems. Not exactly a little home science experiment. If it were easy, the power transmission companies would have it sewn up already.

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