A Very Small Wireless Power Transfer Receiver Circuit - Three Components

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Channel: patrickikis · 2014 · Science & Technology

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The transmitter is much more complicated, but I was able to pull power from the transmitter using only an inductor (which acts as a poorly matched receiver coil), a diode (which acts as a half-wave rectifier to remove the negative swing of the received AC waveform), and a red 3mm LED (A visual indicator).  If I added a 10-100uf capacitor and a 470R resistor, I could improve this circuit greatly, but I wanted to make the circuit as small as possible.  In any case, it isn't an efficient circuit.  It is interesting though.

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