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Low-Power Wireless Charging

Step 6References and Links

K, first off, links to people who have come before me!
Instructables user robotkid249: wireless power transmission over short distances
Instructables user puffin_juice: I need your help. IPT
Robert Coup and Monique Ryan (U of Auckland): Inductively coupled universal battery charger

Now for links from wikipedia (all accessed on or around Dec '09):
Wireless Energy Transfer
Resonant Energy Transfer
Colpitts Oscillator
Resonant Transformer
Cockcroft-Walton Generator
WiTricity
Point-to-Point Construction
Schottky Diode
Stripboard
Secondary Coil: LC circuit resonance

Other links from around the web:
Inductor Calculator
Colpitts Oscillator

Common capacitor values

Wireless power links (just fyi):
Neat RGB LED project, similar setup to this one
Using large capacitors and small inductors instead
Quick-and-dirty method for high power output using a CFL bulb.

I'll reserve this space below for anyone that uses this in one of their projects, just let me know!


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Electrical engineering student, currently working in the video processing silicon industry.