Need help in determining the component Specifications of this circuit

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debapam.roy

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Dear all,
I have somehow designed a circuit that I require for an instantaneous force that is required for an application. I am from mechanical background and an automation engineer. I request the experts to authenticate the concept and help me build it. Feel free to change the complete design if necessary. My purpose is to charge a capacitor bank of nearly 10Nos. 2000uf capacitors and to divert the energy stored instantaneously to the coil.


I may be totally wrong in the schematic. Please help me with the circuit.
Thanks
Debu
 
The 1st thing wrong is you have no specs for desired output, thus no way to verify your design.
2nd and more importantly, there is no purpose specified, as the 24V battery has far more Farads than all your Capacitors.
3rd L& C elements will resonate according to 2pi*f=1/√(LC) with ringing dampened on half cycles due to diode and R load.
4th. What is the diode? a laser? LED string? a strobe panel?
Whatever, what specs?

Always start any design with Specs for output, then process then inputs avail. This should also include any important requirements like cost, reliability, time and Environment specs for compatibility.
This requires skill and is the expected output of any Engineer.
 
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Thanks for the valuable inputs, I have understood the points. What I want I will redefine. Please help me in this. There is a DC source( 6v) available in the concept unit that I am designing.

step 1:- To convert 6V (6V4.5 Ah Battery) to 220V, ~130 mAmps( I have a circuit, will definitely get it reviewed by you) ,

Step 2:- To charge a capacitor bank of 300V capacitors ( farads should be sufficient that the bank charges to about 200V in 0.2 secs, which is the cycle time).

Step 3:- The circuit similar to the one I had started with. The purpose is to disconnect the charging unit first and then transfer the total energy stored to a coil which in turn is going to pull a lever. The coil will be designed to accommodate the energy discharged from the bank depending on the derived Farads. I want to avoid using relay for this energy transfer to avoid sparking. Instead, I want to use a simple 3v/6 v relay coil to trigger a Mosfet/Transistor which will do this switching.

Thanks
 
One important note:-
The 3v/6v relay is driven by the lever that is getting pulled and the moment the lever comes to the center of the coil, the discharging from the capacitor bank is cutoff to the coil irrespective of capacitor being fully discharged or not. I feel that sudden switching off the coil may divert residual energy back to destroy the electronic components and hence I had used that diode D1 ( regular ones used for unidirectional current flow) and the resistance R2. If this is not required, I will delete them.

This is a development project and I need to have this electronic switching platform with me. My desired output is to have maximum possible power collected from the battery and drain it at once for huge instantaneous magnetic energy. To maximize the impact of the lever under the given constrain of the 6V source, nearly 25-30 impacts per battery and a max of 0.5 secs of cycle time.

please help me evaluate the possibility.
 
I still think your specs for overall task are unclear.

It should spec. Force and distance. Basically you want a Solenoid and this approach will not give predictable results.

There is no reason not to use low voltage DC with a properly designed solenoid unless the battery chosen has excessive ESR. Then one needs a better battery such as LiPo proerly sized to match the load.

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