Kapanadze Cousin - DALLY FREE ENERGY

[AlienGrey]

Nick,

my question is if you are running your setup with the wima cap / inductor in resonance as that has a big influence on the spikes / ringing.


Anyway, yes i meant that the snubber test cap should go between drain and source (= ground).

Good point from TK, if your MOSFETs are not isolated from the heatsinks, touching the heatsinks will cause you to be a snubber!

With your 2Mhz ringing signal i guesstimate you should need a test cap of around 1.5nF to half it to 1Mhz

Itsu

Yes, well from a purely educational point of view, Let me draw your attention to the original circuit 6w and 6 winds at 12 volts in Ruslans thread, your drifting miles off course and you're not getting what Ruslin talked about on the original thread and your ending up with a DC to DC at HF is that what you're aiming for ? IRF 250 and 260 are over kills, there is a lot of BS going on on projects Ruslin warns in his own way people meddling and experimenting and getting nowhere. You won't want a perfect square wave or sine out of the 4 turn wind so get back and experiment with the winds and voltage you want the Ferox to become active or unstable! or chuck it in the bin and get another hobby. The other minor thing is the over spikes you need to connect 2 UF4007 one to each drain with the pos ends common to a charge cap to earth and use a voltage limit zener with a small R in circuit and feed it back into your 12v feed back into the toroid supply.

[Hoppy]

Yes Let me draw your attention to the original circuit 6w and 6 winds at 12 volts in Ruslans thread, your drifting miles off course and you're not getting what Ruslin talked about on the original thread and your ending up with a DC to DC at HF is that what you're aiming for ? IRF 250 and 260 are over kills, there is a lot of BS going on on projects Ruslin warns in his own way people meddling and experimenting and getting nowhere. You dont won't want a perfect square wave or sine out of the 4 turn wind so get back and experiment with the winds and voltage you want the Ferox to become active or unstable! or chuck it in the bin and get another hoby.

I tend to agree that conventional good practice electronics to create clean waveforms may not be needed for this application. IMO all indicators suggest that chaotic situation is required whereby yoke core instability is essential. That's not to say transient protection is not needed to protect the mosfet junctions from damaging voltage spikes but damping the ringing with snubbers may well be the opposite to what is required to replicate claimed self-runners. If I were to ressurect this project, my approach would be very much away from 'clean' electronics, with an emphasis on experimentation with core material.

[Void]

Hey guys. People have been doing some very interesting experiments here, and some very good work.
However, I personally think it can be easy to get off track on this sort of stuff. 

My two cents' worth is that if Kapanadze and Akula (and maybe Ruslan) really found OU,
then it may well not be what they were explicitly telling and showing that was really key, but what
they were not emphasizing that is really key. This is why I have been focusing only on basic experiments
for the last while, and looking for unusual effects. Once you find an unusual effect, then you can do
more in depth experiments to try to get a better understanding of what is going on. I think if you are working
blindly with a fairly complicated setup, you may get lucky and hit OU, but you may just be spinning your wheels
for a long time as well.

My guess is if a person is going to have a chance to see OU, it is not going to come
from a 'normal' closed loop type of circuit setup. I have been quite busy the last year, but
this is the approach I am focusing on when I get the time to sit at the bench.
I have seen a few interesting effects, but nothing really concrete as of yet. The experiments continue.

Some of the most promising experiments I have seen on youtube are where people keep it to a simple
setup and watch closely for unusual effects. If you look at Kapanadze's first videos, it was
a very simple setup. If it really is OU, then there is an unusual effect hiding in that simple setup. 
What did Kapanadze have that could take things outside of a normal closed loop setup? (hint, hint) 
I think people who have been at this for a while can probably take some good guesses at it,
and come up with some basic experiments to put it to the test. This is my own approach anyway. 

Good luck with your experiments guys!

[NickZ]

   Seams to me that the TL494 circuit doesn't really let the juice flow. Compare to the wide open unrestricted Mazilli circuit. Remember the Mazilli? It cranks. I can't seam to be able to get the same effect from the TL494 board to do the same thing, as yet. But I'm working on it.

  If the spikes are not tamed, you'll go through a lot of FETs. As I have done. Yet, proper earth groundings in the STAR formation, all working together become more than just a ground.
   Remember Hoppy, both Ruslan as well as Akula used snubbers on all their self runners. So, they are needed.
I tried it the Stalker way, no snubbers, and it fried my FETs. So, I'll try it with snubbers and see if the Fet heating issue improves. New yoke seams to be working a bit better now, with opposite winding between the primary and the 28t coil. 3t coil is wound same as the primary.

  TK:  Yes, the resistors can be shot, and,  I know that the pot is also shot, as it feels loose inside.
I may not need to deal with it, in a few days, when the Siglent arrives at my door.
    I still may fix the old Tectronics 2205, We'll see.

[Hoppy]

Some of the most promising experiments I have seen on youtube are where people keep it to a simple
setup and watch closely for unusual effects. If you look at Kapanadze's first videos, it was
a very simple setup. If it really is OU, then there is an unusual effect hiding in that simple setup. 
What did Kapanadze have that could take things outside of a normal closed loop setup? (hint, hint) 
I think people who have been at this for a while can probably take some good guesses at it,
and come up with some basic experiments to put it to the test. This is my own approach anyway. 

Good luck with your experiments guys!

hi Void,

Yes, a good time for anot her review.

The spark gap, which does not feature in some other claimed self-runners? I'm wondering if the yoke was just introduced post Kapanadze, as a convenient easily obtained core from a srapped TV but is not an essential component. Also, we see no Kacher in the Kapanadze devices because the DC HV is spark gap generated using a flyback transformer, rectification and capacitive storage. The Kapa grenade in the box devices is covered in plastic film and this I think is because T1000 has suggested many times, his devices are primarily capacitive in nature, not inductive.

If I were to return to the project, then I would take a more simple experimental approach using spark gap generated HV.