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Once I was on a trip and I had a problem with recharging my gadgets. I traveled for a long time on the bus, did not have the
opportunity to charge my phone and knew that I would soon be without communication.

So came the idea to create a kinetic charger, which will not depend on the power outlet.

If you need to recharge your gadget on a trip, hike, on the beach or in transport, then Elveet will help you. You can just shake Elveet
or put it in your bag (backpack) and go to work (go hiking, to the beach, to the mountains, etc.). The device is charging when you are
moving.

Elveet is a kinetic charger.

The principle of operation Elveet is based on the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction

Step 1: Component Parts of the Elveet

1. The Inductor consists of a 9-magnetic Halbach array and three coils.

2. PCB contains an inductor 200mA step-up-converter, a battery charger, and a battery step-up converter 5V 2A output.

3. The lithium-polymer battery 2800 mAh.

4. The case consists 4 parts and is made with 3D Printer.

The whole project is created in Fusion 360.

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Step 2: Elveet Inductor

The inductor converts the kinetic energy of your movement into an electric current. The efficiency of the inductor is the most
important parameter. The amount of accumulated energy in the internal battery depends on the efficiency of the inductor.
The inductor consists of three coils, a Halbach magnetic array, and three diode bridges.
The working field of the coil is the part above which the poles of the magnets pass, that is, the longer this part is, the more energy we
can get.

Further, the outputs of each coil are connected to the diode bridge, that is, the coils are independent in voltage. And the current of all
three coils is summed up after the diode bridges.
Diode bridges use Schottky diodes with very low forward voltage PMEG4010 produced by Nexperia. These are the best diodes for
such applications and I do not recommend changing them to others.

The magnetic Halbach array concentrates the magnetic field on one side. On the other side, the magnetic field is very weak.

Halbach array requires almost double the number of permanent magnets but the efficiency of the Halbach assembly is very high.

The magnetic array passes over two parts of each coil and always the poles pass over different parts. Since the coils are electrically
independent due to diode bridges, their influence on each other is excluded.

The inductor uses an assembly of 9 neodymium magnets 5X5X30mm N42. Two more magnets 2X4X30 N42 are used as springs.

https://www.indigoinstruments.com/magnets/rare_earth/

The efficiency of the inductor depends on the rate of change of the magnetic field. For this, the path of the magnetic assembly is
increased. Thus, the rate of change of the magnetic field is increased substantially due to the large acceleration of the magnetic
assembly during motion.

This inductor is much more efficient than an inductor with a cylindrical magnet in the center of the coil. The cylindrical inductor has
only the upper and lowers working part of the magnet. The middle part of the cylindrical magnet almost does not work in the
current generation. Therefore, its efficiency is low.

The Elveet inductor has a 4-pole magnetic system which is directed strictly perpendicular to the wires of the coils.

After the diode bridges, the current of the coils is summed up and fed to the converter and charger board.

Step 3: Elveet PCB

The circuit and all components of the boards.

It contains three main parts:

1. Step-up 200mA converter inductor current. The chip NCP1402 is used.

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This chip receivesAll5 volts from the inductor or from an external source (via micro-USB) and charges a Lithium-polymer battery with
a capacity of 2800Apple
mA. The inductor current and the current from the external source are decoupled via Schottky diodes.
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All parts of the case and the magnet holder are printed on a 3D printer.
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Case dimensions:

18 - 54 - 133 мм (5, 24 - 2,13 - 0,728 in)

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On a rectangular base 5x35 mm high 8 mm, we reel coil with a wire of 32 AWG (0.2 mm).

The coils are made with a wire of 32 AWG (0.2mm) on a rectangular base. The number of turns is approximately 1200.The width of
the entire coil should not be more than 20 mm. You can apply a thicker wire, but for a boost converter, this will be a heavier mode of
operation. A thinner wire will give more voltage but the current will drop and ohmic losses will increase.

After winding all coils should be wrapped with PTFE tape.

Step 6: Board Diode Bridges

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To do this, you need a thin board, which is mounted 10-15 white LEDs and one capacitor of approximately 2200 microfarads.

LEDs are connected in parallel and soldered to the board of diode bridges.

When moving the magnetic assembly over the coils, all the diodes should shine brightly.
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Now you are completely energetically independent!

Good travel and good charge to your gadgets!

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EugeneGTI 2 years ago

Hi Tetyano! It looks like there is a mistake in the number of turns for the coil. I just did a 1200 turn
coil (manually), and it came out 35mm wide, and 65mm long, with .2mm wire. Is it possible that the
number of turns should be lower?

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sabyasachi.panigrahi18 3 years ago

what are he voltages value of capacitors used

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chinu.panigrahi18 3 years ago

Two more magnets 2X4X30 N42 are used as springs. Where these magnets will be placed and what's
the difference if ill use N50 magnets

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Burans 4 years ago

Would it be a problem if we choose magnet 30x10x5 ?

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astrophotography.lk 4 years ago

This is one of the best Instructables out there - not only you are generous enough to share your
unique design of this practical kinetic energy charger, it's also very well documented with all the
required details. Many thanks Tanya, keep up the great work!

Do you have any idea of making couple of these as DIY science kits? That would be really wonderful,
and I will be more than willing to order few of these for educational purposes to be used in my
school.

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romaniukma 4 years ago

How did you create the pcb?

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romaniukma 4 years ago

where can you get the diodes?

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EW1348 5 years ago

Hi Tanya, my pcb manufacturer is having trouble with opening the pcb file, do you have a lower
Contests version of it or an application to open it?
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Leonardodiserdavincy 5 years ago

What is the average distance to charge the battery 100% with the equation thanks

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 offtherails2010 5 years ago

Good day to you !

OMG this is BEAUTIFULLY GORGEOUS !!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks so much for, 1- Keeping this project open-source and providing your PCB too, and

2- taking the massive amount of time to document every step, this is truly amazing and an awesome
gadget that promotes 'keeping fit' lol with an everyday-use gadget when one is no where near a plug
socket - OR on a Desert-Island lol

Well Done !

oh by the way, what software did you use for making the PCB ??

I'm too old to learn new tricks, lol, so i only use CadSoft-Eagle for all my PCB Creations, it has a
massive community behind it and likely that whatever part you wanna use, someone has
documented it for us to download for free lol

Once again, thanks for an amazing project to sink our teeth into lol

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GrassoK 5 years ago

The magnets are no longer available in that size on the website you recommended. Would this work
if I modified the design to use 30x2.5x2.5mm? Or would I be better off going to another site and and
getting the correct size, but with a 36N SH energy grade.

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Artem Vardanyan 6 years ago

Hi Tanya!

Very interesting! Could you give me the links of all components?

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balascientist 7 years ago

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lm386 7 years ago

Hi Tetiana / Tanya

Very good article

How critical are the size of the magnets, 5x5x30 seem difficult to find?

You show a pattern in the 9 magnets and look like they are placed in a certain way, can you tell me
how they are lined up.

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warhawk8080 7 years ago

Got an idea...would using a very low voltage energy harvester chip instead of the NCP1402 chip be
better...then put a button cell .47F supercapacitor on the output side of the coils (where the 10uf
tantal is located)...the below chip can charge down to .08vdc (startup voltage of .33vdc)
Coils dump voltage/current into the supercap...the BQ25504 trickles into the 4.2vdc Li Ion...much
more efficient use of the low power pulses from the motion of the magnet and coils?

http://www.ti.com/product/BQ25504?keyMatch=energy%...

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the_3d6 7 years ago

The main problem with kinetic chargers is a tiny amount of energy. For this setup, you'll need to
shake it about 6000 times to theoretically put in enough energy to charge 100mAh battery (so in
practice, with friction and all conversion losses, you'll need at least twice more).

Although it can make a nice emergency light

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jenov 7 years ago

Hi TanyaAkinora, do you have the drawing for the diode bridge board? Thanks

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Sepherim 7 years ago

I love your idea... i had an idea about it myself:

Why not add same pole perm. Magnet strips to the end of the moving magnet and the encasement of
the magnet like:

|+ +|movingmagnet|+ +|

This may you can stop harder impacts from happening inside the Charger AND you can even use
these harder impacts to make it bounce back and forth a few times.

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jenov 7 years ago

Thanks for sharing this wonderful battery charger. :P

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