Hello,

I'm trying to take a DC signal from a battery and convert to a pulse signal, essentially identical to a fully rectified A/C Signal. Any comments on how to do this would be appreciated.

 

Hello,

I'm trying to take a DC signal from a battery and convert to a pulse signal, essentially identical to a fully rectified A/C Signal. Any comments on how to do this would be appreciated.

How about a picture of the output?

 

Hello,

I want to make the following signal from a battery;

 

While you don't mention the desired voltage or frequency...

The easiest way I can think of doing this is with a micro-controller.
Connect a DAC, drive it from a SINE table stored in memory.
If the desired frequency is low enough, you could use a PWM output instead of a DAC.

Alternatively, (with more difficulty) you could use a sine wave oscillator and a precision rectifier circuit.

What's this thing for?

 

I would like to power an electromagnet while also transferring energy through a set of coils, thus needing pulsating but also DC power.

 

Then the output wave shape is of relatively little importance.

If I understand your concept: you want an AC signal with a DC component to create a DC magnetic field, while also transferring some power through induction?

Your biggest problem will be avoiding saturation in the magnetics.

Cant help much more until you fully explain what you are trying to accomplish.

 

What I want to make is a solenoid in an electrically operated hydraulic valve that will also power an agitator feature when engaged.

The system runs on 24 Volts (two 12 V batteries). When engaged, the electromagnet (primary coil) will switch the position of the valve by pushing a spool. At the same time i need to transfer power from the primary coil to a secondary coil installed on the spoil via induction, which in turn will power the agitator (simply mechanical turbine system powered by small dc motor but sealed).

I'm not sure if this is possible to do the way I'm describing?

 

Interesting project. Apart from the difficulty of getting current to change in an inductor I think the inductive coupling of sufficient power will be a major challenge if the primary coil is moving relative to the secondary. Can you post a sketch of the spool/coils arrangement?

 

Some questions to help us out:

What is the peak output voltage?

What do you expect the peak current to be?

 

What I want to make is a solenoid in an electrically operated hydraulic valve that will also power an agitator feature when engaged.

The system runs on 24 Volts (two 12 V batteries). When engaged, the electromagnet (primary coil) will switch the position of the valve by pushing a spool. At the same time i need to transfer power from the primary coil to a secondary coil installed on the spoil via induction, which in turn will power the agitator (simply mechanical turbine system powered by small dc motor but sealed).

I'm not sure if this is possible to do the way I'm describing?

The pattern you show can be created using software PWM in which the MCU produces small slices of that half-sine wave. You will see a similar approach for micro-stepping stepper motors.

As to your more general application, are you trying to create dither to overcome the stick and release ("stiction") in your valve? Here is a high-level overview of that process: http://www.qualityhydraulics.com/blog/what-dither-versus-pwm/

There are many links on the web that address its design.

John

 

The peak output voltage should be 12 volt and peak current 2 amps.

 

Quick note: One problem with 6 kHz is that it is the range of most people's hearing.