Piezoelectric vibration nano generator / sensor inquiry

I’m interested in developing an application that uses Piezoelectricity to harvest energy from vibration, such as voice, liquid movement, and similar things throughout an extended period of time.

Like charging a very small battery n a day.

I’m interested in purchasing a 2d thin PZT piezoelectric film with as high d33 as possible. And I was curious if there’s a product with this material that I could use in my application. Or any other Sparkfun product that I can use.

We have this SparkFun Energy Harvester Breakout - LTC3588 - BOB-09946 - SparkFun Electronics which you could combine with one of these first 5 items here :slight_smile:

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Thank you for responding😊. Would this method allow to harvest a meaningful amount of energy?

Probably not, in a practical sense…but that depends on how many mA you need

Solar, even indoors, would probably yield better results

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That is the challenge I’m trying to over come. The idea is to use more than one piezoelectric sensor to harvest energy, throughout a long period of time. And see how much power we could get from this. How can I calculate how much mA/power I can get from these products?

Yes, that’s the reason you’re having a tough time finding answers. Power generation from piezoelectric effect is considered unrealistic and the manufacturers of piezo devices probably wouldn’t bother documenting related characteristics.

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You can’t calculate that, since the power depends on the characteristics of the motion source actually driving the devices.

Buy a couple of samples and do the required experiments.

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