In order to not interfere with Jagau's experiments with Dr. Stiffler's SEC technology which have many things in common with what Don Smith named "The Don Smith Effect" I'm starting in parallel with Jagau my own experiments with Don Smith's tech.
If this experiment is successful maybe we can unify the technologies these two great teachers demonstrated to us.
So below is my first post in this related thread here.
Fighter
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of
energy, frequency and
vibration."
But with the standard variable capacitor I ran different tests and configurations here and I had between 46 and 63 Vpp while powering my replica of your micro-generator.
The LEDs of the micro-generator were light up almost continuously and I estimated that the current extracted was about 20 mA:
Note: Think about the fact that this energy collected by the plates of a variable capacitor being just 3 cm long is about 20 mA and the total usable length of the big coil is 24 cm; and the fact that we can extract this energy without affecting the input; a very basic estimation tells me we can get about 22 mA x (24 / 3) = 176 mA and, if this process will still continue to not affect the input, we will still have about 20 mA consumption (without voltage booster's own consumption to convert 9V to 42.9 V) which means we will have about 8.8 COP and the device can become a self-running device.
I'll see when I have the customizable capacitor ready for testing but as I mentioned building it is very time consuming and I can allocate only a few hours per day working on it.
Fighter
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of
energy, frequency and
vibration."
The disks are ready for the final assembly meaning to place them on the electrically isolated carbon fiber tube and connecting through two wires the copper disks together and the aluminum disks together:
I didn't add all the disks because I want to have some free space inside the half of the coil to check if moving the customized capacitor inside the coil in different positions would make a difference in the quantity of the extracted energy:
On a very quick check I found out there is still electrical conductivity between some of the disks and their neighbour disks despite having them separated by the teflon layers.
That's a problem but I intend to use the multimeter in continuity-check mode connected to the two wires while assembling the capacitor and address the conductivity problems found when I hear the multimeter's sound signaling the problem.
This part will be also time consumming but it's already usual for the work I'm doing on this customized capacitor.
I'm trying to have it finished as soon as possible and to do at least some basic tests with this component because my time is already limited, I should leave Bucharest soon for about a month; I already postponed the leave with two weeks because I wanted to finish this component and do basic tests.
More experiments (including using high-voltage and the spark gap) will follow when I'll return.
Fighter
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of
energy, frequency and
vibration."
I want to add here the reason why I invested so much time and effort on this customized capacitor.
I created a video with a detail from my previous DSE experiments where I used the standard variable capacitor, notice the difference in the amount of energy extracted when I just rotated the knob of the variable capacitor:
By rotating the knob all I do is to increase the surface of the plates of the variable capacitor, plates which are perpendicular on the Heaviside component produced by the coil. That component which allows me in this experiment to extract energy from the Zero-Point field without affecting the input. Everything else in the geometry of the variable capacitor remains unchanged while I'm rotating that knob.
It is found that creating a dipole and inserting capacitor plates at right angles to the current flow, allows magnetic waves to change back into useful electrical (coulombs) energy. Magnetic waves passing through the capacitor plates do not degrade and the full impact of the available energy is accessed. One, or as many sets of capacitor plates as is desired, may be used. Each set makes an exact copy of the full force and effect of the energy present in the magnetic waves. The originating source is not depleted or degraded as is common in conventional transformers.
Now think that I did that using a variable capacitor having only 19 thin aluminum plates (which I bought from here):
Now think how much energy I should be able to extract using almost 100 copper/aluminum disks (for now, I can more later, up to 120) fully exposed to thew Heaviside component.
Keep in mind that in this experiment we're extracting just a tiny amount from the energy available for extracting. The plates of the variable capacitor are occupying just about 1/10 from the total length of the big coil and are extracting the energy just from that area. From that small area we're extracting pulses of 22mA (the consumption of the LEDs) while the input is not affected and remains constant in the range of approximatively 65-75mA. Much more energy can be extracted by using more capacitor plates placed inside the big coil on its entire length, possibly more energy than we're using on input. Do the math...
Fighter
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of
energy, frequency and
vibration."
Sorry for the late updates, had a lot of problems assembling the customized capacitor.
First I tried to build it using stranded litz wire, the idea was to have multiple electrical contacts with each capacitor plate through each thread from the litz wire:
But while building and keeping the multimeter (in continuity mode) connected I noticed that when pressing the capacitor there were multiple and random electrical contacts between the plates.
Tried to debug, locate and fix the points where the contacts were made but they seem to be random.
I thought maybe small litz threads from the wire are touching the plates inside the plates holes.
I tried then with one-wire:
This didn't fixed the issue.
Again lost a lot of time trying to debug and locate the contact points for each plate.
And I found the problem, the way I cut the teflon separators was wrong.
More than that, seems when the factory cut the disks there were small borders on the edges which were invisible to the eye but can be felt when touching those portions with the finger.
Those metal indentations touched the plate above through the edges of the teflon separators.
See the photo where I marked how each pair of plates made random contact to each other when pressing the capacitor (the pair of two plates on the bottom of the photo):
In order to fix the problems I tried different ways of cutting the teflon sheet, tested them and came with a configuration which is working, no more random contacts between plates (the pair of two plates on the top of the photo above).
The good part is the problem is solved. The bad part is I'm throwing away about 30 hours I spent building these 92 teflon separators (building each one took about 15-20 minutes).
So now I'm building a new teflon separator for each plate, I add the plate to the capacitor and I test it to make sure when I press the capacitor the multimeter (in continuity mode) is not beeping.
Lesson to learn from this: before spending a lot of time building tens of pieces, build prototipes and test them to make sure they work as expected.
So I'm continuing this work, will take a while.
I must postpone again my leaving from Bucharest because before leaving I want to finish this capacitor and perform at least a few basic tests of it with the DSE device.
Regards,
Fighter
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of
energy, frequency and
vibration."
The study was done with teflon tape which was cut or stretched to produce "carbon dangling bonds or vacancies".
"In this work, we demonstrate that room temperature FM can be realized in Teflon through very simple methods—cutting or mechanical stretching."
Annealing (heating then gradual cooling) the Teflon under certain conditions can remove the FM effect.
Note that the test material was Teflon tape and not Teflon wafers.
Some questions:
Will the greater crosssectional area of a wafer create more/less FM effect?
Will this ferromagnetic anomaly affect the device under test?
Can it be an enhancement or detraction of the desired effect?
Are these carbon dangling bonds conductive as well?
There are articles that support this FM phenomena in similar materials. Consider characteristics of Joel Lagace's Quantum Power Cell and electrets.
Between travels I try to review everyone's projects and hope to actualize some on my punch list as the remote task 600 km away is nearing closure. Hopefully this week will be one of the last ... each trip is tiring and expensive. In one week we hauled 4 farm tractors and implements ... two round-trips in 24 hrs ... 2400 km.
Excellent Inception, the dielectric / plate relationship of a capacitor is very important. Everyone thinks it's the plates that hold the charge in a capacitor, wrong.
It's the dielectric that holds the charge in a capacitor, not the plates. Watch this convincing MIT demo and you'll understand the importance of the dielectric.
As I'm out of time I'm posting the current status here and some preliminary conclusions.
I'm saying preliminary because I decided to run some basic tests with the incomplete customized capacitor.
First, even if I redesigned the teflon separators to avoid any contact between the plates, adding more than about 36 plates (18 copper and 18 aluminum) makes the issue appearing again: random contacts between plates when pressing the capacitor.and the phenomenon becomes easier to trigger as I add plates (even the slightest touch will trigger those random contacts).
I cannot figure out how that is possible through the teflon separators or to locate them.
As a reminder any contact between the plates is compromising the capacitor making it unusable.
Here is a video with about 36 plates assembled:
I stumbled upon this article which suggests that Teflon can become ferromagnetic (FM) when cut or stretched.
Room temperature ferromagnetism in Teflon due to carbon dangling bonds
The study was done with teflon tape which was cut or stretched to produce "carbon dangling bonds or vacancies".
"In this work, we demonstrate that room temperature FM can be realized in Teflon through very simple methods—cutting or mechanical stretching."
Annealing (heating then gradual cooling) the Teflon under certain conditions can remove the FM effect.
Note that the test material was Teflon tape and not Teflon wafers.
Some questions:
Will the greater crosssectional area of a wafer create more/less FM effect? Will this ferromagnetic anomaly affect the device under test? Can it be an enhancement or detraction of the desired effect? Are these carbon dangling bonds conductive as well?
Thank you, I understand what you are saying: instead of helping, the teflon separators could block the Heaviside component minimizing the energy which could be axtracted.
According to Don Smith's design here he used a plastic sheet as dielectric separator but I searched and found that the best dielectric separator is the teflon. That's why I decided to use teflon sheet. Maybe that's wrong, I'll clarify this in future trials.
My questions right now is: pressing a teflon sheet make it electrically conductive too ? Because that's what seems to happen with the random electrical contacts between plates as I add more plates and I press the capacitor.
I don't have an answer to this now, I need to investigate more this issue.
Because of that issue I decided to do some basic prelimninary tests with the partial capacitor I have now.
For Jagau, this is the current capacitance of this incomplete capacitor (2.5 nF):
I must specify that, even if I named this "capacitor", it's a unusual device and doesn't really behave like a standard capacitor: it seems to be in some kind of electrical equilibrum and repeated touches make it produce small voltages in range of tens of milliamperes.
Here is a video with its behavior:
I don't know if there is a standard/known explanation for this behavior, I didn't made any reasearch about this yet.
What I want to mention is I cannot use is as a capacitor to power something connected to its two wires like we usually do with a standard capacitor. The only way to power something is to connect the load between its copper or aluminum plates (one of them at a time) and the grounding (as usually I use the grounding wire of the electrical installation).
So one of the images from this post can be misleading, I imagined something like this:
Seems I was wrong or maybe it really can power a load when using high voltage in the coil; at this point I don't know.
If I put the scope's probes on the two wires of the capacitor this is the result:
As you can see it's a very small voltage and that 50 Hz frequency is most likely the frequency of the electrical grid.
But when using one of its wires and the grounding to power a load the effect is still there: the input is not affected, it cannot see the load.
This is a video where I'm using the wire connecting all copper plates and the grounding connection (the black wire in video) to power the energy harvester:
You notice the energy harvester is slowly blinking even when it's not connected to capacitor's wire, that's normal: it's very close to DSE's coil and it's receiving energy from it through the metal grid embedded in energy harvester's breadboard.
And here is another video where I'm powering 5 x 12V/30mA/0.36W LED light bulbs for cars which I bought from here:
In both videos I'm showing input values in 3 stages: the consumption of the voltage booster, the consumption of the voltage booster plus the coil and the consumption of the voltage booster, the coil and the load.
You'll notice when connecting the load there are small variations on input like 1-3 mA which are really insignificant compared to the energy we extract.
I must note that I also tried to power some small resistive light bulbs but none worked, maybe there will be more current available for extraction when the customized capacitor will have its full length (all copper and aluminum plates added).
For future references I'm adding here 3 photos of the test and the waveform between the wire connecting capacitor's copper plates and the grounding wire:
Also I'm adding here 3 photos of the test and the waveform between the wire connecting capacitor's aluminum plates and the grounding wire:
In the current configuration I can't power any resistive light bulb, so I'm thinking if it will still not work with the fully built customized capacitor maybe I will need to go with the high-voltage devices I bought and presented here.
I'll add updates here when I'll have more info.
Regards,
Fighter
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of
energy, frequency and
vibration."
