I want to design a circuit that I will call a " total charge accumulator". Want I want to accomplish is storage of minute amounts of charge from a very very low wind with a wind turbine. . Example: the turbine is turning in a 2 mph wind, but is only producing 1 volt. This is always just thrown away charge. It could produce charge like that for millions of years and all be thrown away. If there was a way to store all of that charge and then put it all back together at a certain charge level that would be useful, it would be a good thing.
So far ideas I've come up with involve charging a group of Ultra capacitors , one at a time, to 2 volts each, then connecting them together into a battery of capacitors ( in series) to get battery charging potentials of around 14 volts. This would have to be a very complex , descrete component circuit or micro controller based circuit. Question is , am I missing the obvious? Overthinking the problem? The use of a joule thief type circuit does the boosting of low voltage to high voltage, but uses lots of current to produce the potential to charge the battery, and in my opinion throws away lots of charge doing that job. In other words very inefficient.I want to use ALL of the virgin charge.
I have been rolling this problem over in my mind for a few years now. If someone can wake me up it would be good. Or give me ideas to help how to do it.
So far ideas I've come up with involve charging a group of Ultra capacitors , one at a time, to 2 volts each, then connecting them together into a battery of capacitors ( in series) to get battery charging potentials of around 14 volts. This would have to be a very complex , descrete component circuit or micro controller based circuit. Question is , am I missing the obvious? Overthinking the problem? The use of a joule thief type circuit does the boosting of low voltage to high voltage, but uses lots of current to produce the potential to charge the battery, and in my opinion throws away lots of charge doing that job. In other words very inefficient.I want to use ALL of the virgin charge.
I have been rolling this problem over in my mind for a few years now. If someone can wake me up it would be good. Or give me ideas to help how to do it.