Timeline for Maximum power out of a piezo?
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| May 9, 2011 at 13:49 | vote | accept | endolith | ||
| May 6, 2011 at 5:24 | comment | added | SimonBarker | Cool, well MIT (and maybe Berkley if my memory is correct) have done work into the idea of bionic soldiers powering their own kit. Piezoelectric backpack straps and knee braces have been produced so far. MIT also made a piezoelectric shoe heel insert a couple of years back now. Have fun! | |
| May 5, 2011 at 18:46 | comment | added | endolith | My end application is curiosity. :) Thought I guess I'm imagining things powered by human movement. But other methods (like in self-winding watches) may be better than piezos, this was just a tangent. | |
| May 5, 2011 at 16:44 | comment | added | SimonBarker | Not really related, although Ferrari did present a paper at the 2008 IEEE Sensors conference where they attempted something similar - replacing passive diodes with switched FETs. Have a read of jim.sagepub.com/content/17/8-9/831.abstract or "Toward Heat Energy Harvesting using Pyroelectric Material" DANIEL GUYOMAR or iopscience.iop.org/0964-1726/16/6/028 what is your end application? It's worth bearing in mind that any clever processing/control added in needs to use less power than it creates | |
| May 5, 2011 at 16:04 | comment | added | endolith | For purposes of this question, I do want to get really fancy. Can you elaborate on SSHI? Any relation to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_rectification? | |
| May 5, 2011 at 15:41 | history | answered | SimonBarker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |