"solid state free energy device" - rebuilt it but unsuccessful

[TinselKoala]

Thanks!! Actually the camera is fine, a Panasonic HD, but its files are huge.... a ten minute video is a Gigabyte of data and would take hours to upload, so I convert it to a compressed .avi for upload, reducing it by a factor of about 9 in size, so it uploads in a reasonable time. This hurts the quality some. Then of course YT does its thing, which sometimes helps and sometimes hurts the resolution further. And for some reason, when I do upload an uncompressed file from the camera, YT screws up the aspect ratio and presents it as 4x3 instead of 16x9.

And the light... sorry about the light.  I can't handle really bright lighting myself, and when I'm trying to show scopeshots from the CRT scope it's got to be kind of dark for them to show up well. I appreciate the feedback, and I'll try to do better.

The times I've used a tripod.... sometimes if I'm just showing something on a bench and don't have to look around a lot a tripod works OK. But it makes it much harder to look around at my various instruments and work areas, and takes longer to set up.

I use these videos as my lab notebook, they are bound to be quite raw just as all raw data is, and I hope that their entertainment value compensates for their flaws.

Thanks again for watching!

[Farmhand]

Hi Tinsel, I find you're video's very informative and entertaining at the same time. Eventually I will finish my version of your wireless power transfer
device, Speaking of Tesla stuff I like to tinker too, here is my Tesla coil I made mostly from "found" stuff, it is a twin MOT setup with a rotary gap
as can be seen teh gap is made from a wooden frame, a floor polisher motor a fan shaft and a cutting board mainly, other bits and pieces as well.
The secondary extra coil have only 190 turns all up 40 on the secondary and 150 on the extra, single turn primary, even though it's spark
gapped, the break rate can go to over 1 kHz. Lots of fun and interesting but difficult to determine the input power, I've ruined two cheap kilo watt meters
in the supply line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzqbSPi8VKU

Cheers

P.S. If you got 0.5 of a cent per view you could have earned $1500.00 from 300 000 views.

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[TinselKoala]

Very nice indeed Farmhand! I love an SGTC. Makes me want to put my big one back together, for the first time in twelve years... I wonder if I can find all the parts. I know where the rotary gap is, but I don't recall where I put the primary winding.....  It's still in one of the boxes that surround me in my little labroom, I hope.

I've found that with a lot of contacts on a rotary gap rotor, especially at fast speeds, sometimes the spark-arc won't quench at the breaks and is "dragged along" by the rotor piece, so I don't get good clean performance. One of the best gaps I've used for a SGTC was a multiple element fixed gap, not even adjustable, just eight big disks of nickel-iron on a nonconductive rod with spacers, and one of my smaller SGTCs works very well on a 3-element adjustable fixed gap.A rotary gap powered by blown compressed air can work amazingly well by using the air blast to help quench the spark as the rotor is spinning, and even a simple two element fixed (but adjustable of course)  gap can produce amazing performance if it is "blown out" with a constant stream of high-pressure air.

Ah.... I love the smell of ozone in the morning....

[Teunis]

Someone came up with the comment you can see the light bulb light up before it actually touches the contacts.
Any idea on that?

[TinselKoala]

Someone came up with the comment you can see the light bulb light up before it actually touches the contacts.
Any idea on that?

I didn't notice that, do you know the time in minutes/seconds where this was seen?

A really effective demo would have him clip the bulb to the clips and toss the  whole thing from hand to hand or up in the air, showing it still lit to full brilliance.

But even that could be "fekked", probably. I once saw a stage closeup magician do the most amazing levitations with a "magic wand", in a small venue; I was about 10 feet away from him up on his little stage-like platform in the spotlight. I _knew_ he had to be doing it with threads and wires, fishing line or something like that but I could not see any fakery or "tells" other than the impossibility of what he was doing. The wand danced around, flew all over, under his legs and around his head, while he "gestured hypnotically" at it with his hands. It was really amazing.... and really a trick.
And of course now that CGI video effects are within reach of anyone with a computer, practically...it sort of takes the fun out of second-guessing videos. They could show anything at all on a video, done with computer graphics, and from a YT video... I'd never be able to tell.