Hey Fourm
My name is Elliott I am a senior in highschool and im currently working on a science fair project in which I will be representing my Highschool in state and national competitions. My project encompasses around the use of Thermoeletric Generators and energy harvesters and how they can harvest energy and take little amounts of energy and essentially boost it. But im running into a small problem with my circuit and im coming to this fourm for both help and guidance for the continuation of my project. Because as of right now im stuck and time is one of the things I dont have on my side. First and foremost my main question is... Is it possible to wire 2 energy harvesters in parallel to one another in order to produce a higher power rating. Basically harvesting the TEG power and that harvested power is being doubled by another harvester. What Ive tried is wiring my TEGs to a ltc3108 demo board harvester that I ordered from DIGIkey, now the harvester works to a degree. It seems to boost my power but it has no form of storage so I attached a 16v 450uf capacitor from its output VCC 3.3v and Gnd and the capacitor seems to store 3.3v continuously but doesn't seem to charge up more than that. Then I try to take that power and revert it into another energy harvester, that can supposedly take .80v-5v and harvest it to 5v. I treid wiring this all together and nothing happens. This is about 1 of 3 problems i currently have and I just want to get one solved at a time and go from there. Baisically what im asking is can anyone help me re configure my circuit so I can add the additional energy harvester!!?
By the way im a newbie and taking on a topic that im trying to learn as much as i can about. So i apologize for the lack of know how and intellect as im currently teaching myself to the best of my ability.
My name is Elliott I am a senior in highschool and im currently working on a science fair project in which I will be representing my Highschool in state and national competitions. My project encompasses around the use of Thermoeletric Generators and energy harvesters and how they can harvest energy and take little amounts of energy and essentially boost it. But im running into a small problem with my circuit and im coming to this fourm for both help and guidance for the continuation of my project. Because as of right now im stuck and time is one of the things I dont have on my side. First and foremost my main question is... Is it possible to wire 2 energy harvesters in parallel to one another in order to produce a higher power rating. Basically harvesting the TEG power and that harvested power is being doubled by another harvester. What Ive tried is wiring my TEGs to a ltc3108 demo board harvester that I ordered from DIGIkey, now the harvester works to a degree. It seems to boost my power but it has no form of storage so I attached a 16v 450uf capacitor from its output VCC 3.3v and Gnd and the capacitor seems to store 3.3v continuously but doesn't seem to charge up more than that. Then I try to take that power and revert it into another energy harvester, that can supposedly take .80v-5v and harvest it to 5v. I treid wiring this all together and nothing happens. This is about 1 of 3 problems i currently have and I just want to get one solved at a time and go from there. Baisically what im asking is can anyone help me re configure my circuit so I can add the additional energy harvester!!?
By the way im a newbie and taking on a topic that im trying to learn as much as i can about. So i apologize for the lack of know how and intellect as im currently teaching myself to the best of my ability.