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Battery cable came off!
Matt Ion wrote: > wrote: > > Jim Yanik wrote: > > > >>Matt Ion > wrote in > >>news:Clegh.480395$5R2.401317@pd7urf3no: > >> > >> > >>>Grumpy AuContraire wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Uh, the battery is nothing more thann a large capacitor. > >>> > >>>Actually, they're not. Capacitors /store/ electrical energy. > >>>Batteries /create/ it via a chemical reaction. Charging a battery is > >>>not storing energy; it's (to oversimplify) merely reversing the > >>>checmical reaction. > >>> > >> > >>The plates of a battery have capacitance. > >>They are charged by the chemical reaction. > > > > > > A car battery has many farads of capacitance. In other words, > > it's a very stout capacitor.. > > Not even close. The smaller the plates of a capacitor, the less the > capacitance. The further apart they are, the less the capacitance. Lead-acid > battery plates are EXTREMELY small and EXTREMELY far apart compared to a true > capacitor's. > > If you were to drain the water from a battery and measure the capacitance, I > suspect you'd find it in the low microfarads, if not picofarads. Sure. The capacitance I mention is more of an apparant capacitance. It's not true capacitance per say, but the normal operating car battery does provide a large apparant capacitance to the system. But this would not be the case with a non functioning battery. I use car and deep cycle marine batteries to run radios here in the house. My chargers are unfiltered, but yet I have little noise to my radios. The use of my battery as a cap is a bit different in operation vs a true capacitor, but the final apparant filtering is still there. If the battery were not acting as a cap of sorts, I would have hash and trash out the kazoo.. I don't know if this makes any sense, as it's hard for me to describe stuff like this off the top of my head.. As a quite dangerous test you could try running a car radio off the running alternator with no battery connected. I bet it will be quite noisy, fairly unregulated as far as volume, etc vs rpm. IE: if the rpm dropped too low, the radio might totally drop out due to the low voltage. Hook the battery up, and all is smoothed out. Both as far as regulation, and also filtering. If thats not acting like a large "apparent" capacitor, I don't know what is. The operation is different, but the end results are about the same. This is not something I've really thought about too much, but I've always considered the usual operating car battery to have many farads of capacitance, at least as far as overall function. Maybe not true in the strict sense, as far as true caps go, but as far as the end results of placing it in the system. I dunno if this makes any sense or not.. :/ MK |
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Jim Yanik wrote:
> When you DRAW current from a battery,how does the chemistry knows to start > converting chemicals to electric current? > Where does that initial current come from? > > > Simple,the *charge on the plates* decreases and the chemical reaction adds > more electrons to fill the depletion of the plates charge. Very good, you get a gold star. |
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Battery cable came off!
I think this is getting pretty far afield. Does anybody feel the alternator
would be stable under varying load with the battery disconnected? Mike |
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Michael Pardee wrote:
> I think this is getting pretty far afield. Does anybody feel the alternator > would be stable under varying load with the battery disconnected? Pretty sure it would, yup, because I once had to drive without one for a week (manual tranny, obviously - you get really adept at finding even the slightest grades to park on). |
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Michael Pardee wrote: > I think this is getting pretty far afield. Does anybody feel the alternator > would be stable under varying load with the battery disconnected? > Thanks for bringing it back, mike. I've been reading all the posts very closely. Anyway, as an update, no delayed effects yet, thankfully. Though I'm not willing to repeat the "experiment" anytime soon: Seems like I have a shorted rectifier in the alternator. (Does this mean that I'm getting voltage spikes all the time?) I'm wondering if the battery is now "absorbing" the spikes, so it seems to boil down again to whether the battery is acting as a large capacitor.. Thanks again to everyone. |
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"sharx333" > wrote in message
ups.com... > > Anyway, as an update, no delayed effects yet, thankfully. Though I'm > not willing to repeat the "experiment" anytime soon: Seems like I have > a shorted rectifier in the alternator. (Does this mean that I'm getting > voltage spikes all the time?) I'm wondering if the battery is now > "absorbing" the spikes, so it seems to boil down again to whether the > battery is acting as a large capacitor.. > > Thanks again to everyone. > In my experience, yes, you can expect to be getting ripple of about 1/2 volt to 1 volt even with the battery connected. It should be measurable with a DVM on AC voltage setting, measuring across the battery with the engine running. If diodes in two phases (out of the three phases most alternators use) fail the AC voltage can be over 1 1/2 volts with the battery connected. On an oscilloscope it looks pretty radical. With one phase out the voltage hangs around 14 volts and drops when the bad phase is called on to put out. With two phases out the voltage hangs around 12 volts and spikes upward. Mike |
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test post please ignore
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:08:34 -0700, "Michael Pardee"
> wrote: >I think this is getting pretty far afield. Does anybody feel the alternator >would be stable under varying load with the battery disconnected? > >Mike > test |
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"Michael Pardee" > wrote in
: > "sharx333" > wrote in message > ups.com... >> >> Anyway, as an update, no delayed effects yet, thankfully. Though I'm >> not willing to repeat the "experiment" anytime soon: Seems like I >> have a shorted rectifier in the alternator. (Does this mean that I'm >> getting voltage spikes all the time?) I'm wondering if the battery is >> now "absorbing" the spikes, so it seems to boil down again to whether >> the battery is acting as a large capacitor.. >> >> Thanks again to everyone. >> > > In my experience, yes, you can expect to be getting ripple of about > 1/2 volt to 1 volt even with the battery connected. It should be > measurable with a DVM on AC voltage setting, measuring across the > battery with the engine running. If diodes in two phases (out of the > three phases most alternators use) fail the AC voltage can be over 1 > 1/2 volts with the battery connected. On an oscilloscope it looks > pretty radical. With one phase out the voltage hangs around 14 volts > and drops when the bad phase is called on to put out. With two phases > out the voltage hangs around 12 volts and spikes upward. > > Mike > > > Applying AC straight from one phase of the alternator's output would harm the battery,causing excessive heating.On one-half of a cycle,the battery would charge just like the other phase outputs,but on the 2nd half cycle,it would discharge(thru the ALT),maybe even provide a path for damaging currents to be drawn from the battery.It depends on whether the diode failed open or short/leaky. Open failure would just remove that phase winding's output,lowering the alternator's total output current,and giving more ripple. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at kua.net |
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