Lidmotor (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Here is what I want to do: Build that rig but small, put it in the freezer to super cool it, and run the experiment under cold conditions. That would be REALLY interesting!! If a light is on in the freezer and no one sees it is it really on??? LOL

InventorGadget (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

heey that's really sweet! nice and clear setup. Ok, something to try out if u like: Use 2 supercap (20F) INPUT and 2 supercap (20F) OUTPUT. Charge IN-caps up, and run the system.. Let's see how long u can run it on ONE charge.. then swich IN/OUT caps, and run again!! How many times will it run? That shoud give some info on how efficent this system really is, i think. Grate build!

Lidmotor (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thanks, What an amazing device and what an amazing idea to let people from around the world work together on this. Great idea from Imhotep and Shiva.

waterhouse24 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Awesome demo Lidmotor glad you are part of the "team" ;)

Lidmotor (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is not an overunity device. It eats energy. The energy goes away in heat. The purpose of this demonstration was to show that this circuit could recover SOME of the energy being used to drive it. Imhotep's purpose for this invention was as an emergency CFL lighting system that was very simple to bulid. I believe that Dr. Peter Lindemann worked on the energy recover part. More and more replications are showing up. I have seen none that even mention overunity.

OmegaThe1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Of course, whether you can do it will depend on the voltage you need to operate the circuit. Light is not so important here, its only a load and if you manage to get back the spent energy even if the load is not there, you have overunity.

OmegaThe1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thats 2.4F at 11.5V effectively on source side, which means it has 158.7J of energy initially. At 6V its 43.2J, which means u spent 158.7-43.2 = 115.5J. This means you need to charge your target cap to 421.5V to get back the spent energy. You can't check that with a 100V only cap as target, so I suggest that you use 2x10F at source and 2x10F at target and repeat the experiment again.

Lidmotor (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I ran this experiment with the parts that I had on hand: Source super caps-- (1) 2.3V 50F and (4) 2.3V 10F connected in series. Target electrolytic cap--1300uf 100V. The source super caps keep driving the oscillator until the relay stops working at about 6V. I didn't record the target end voltage as I discharged the cap along The way. It would be interesting to run the experiment with matched digital display car audio farad caps to see what happens. And don't forget about the light!!!

OmegaThe1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Very Good work ! 1- Can you plz tell us what are the exact values of source and target capacitors ? 2- What is the voltage on source capacitor after the target is charged to its full rated voltage ? 3- Can you repeat the experiment with identical caps (say 100uF each)? This way the energy gain is simply V2/V1 and no messy calculations are needed.

Lidmotor (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This design is all about resonance. Getting the frequency dialed in makes this thing sing.