Energy from the Ground - Self powered generator by Barbosa and Leal

[TinselKoala]

There are plenty of threads discussing LENR/Cold Fusion/Rossi. This is not one of them.

[MileHigh]

I updated the CAD schematic again and added the dots to the two toroidal transformers.  The dots are configured to show maximum AC current in the secondaries of the transformers.

I may not have mentioned this before in a definitive way so I will mention it here.

Look at the secondary captor loop.  What do you see?  You can see that the current will be very high, but what else do you see?

What you should see is that effectively both of the toroidal transformers have short-circuited secondaries.

What use is a transformer with a shorted out secondary?

The answer is that the only use is as a glorified heater, because the only thing it is doing is burning off the power that is being fed into the primary.  The primary and secondary windings of both transformers will have high AC current going through them.  That means the big 4 AWG wire will have high current going through it.  The whole assembly is just one big fat resistor.

The pair of toroidal transformers look like one big AC short-circuit to the inverter.  Therefore my assumption is that this will put a moderate to heavy amount of strain on the inverter output.

That's why I suggested that Clarence or any other replicators put a Kill-a-Watt meter between the inverter output and the primary inputs of the pair of toroidal transformers to measure how much inverter power is being burned off and converted into heat in the captor.

In fact, you should scope the inverter output to see if it is even capable of driving the short-circuited pair of toroidal transformers.  The waveform output from the inverter may "buckle" under the strain of driving the two toroids.

The whole thing about the "captor" looks like ridiculous electronics quackery.

[MileHigh]

Also, even if the dots are configured so that you have "fighting EMFs" instead of "adding EMFs" you can expect that there is still going to be a mismatch between the two EMFs.

The net result from two slightly mismatched "fighting EMFs?"

The answer is that you will still have high currents in the secondary and the captor will still look like an AC short circuit and act like a glorified resistor.

[nelsonrochaa]

I updated the CAD schematic again and added the dots to the two toroidal transformers.  The dots are configured to show maximum AC current in the secondaries of the transformers.

I may not have mentioned this before in a definitive way so I will mention it here.

Look at the secondary captor loop.  What do you see?  You can see that the current will be very high, but what else do you see?

What you should see is that effectively both of the toroidal transformers have short-circuited secondaries.

What use is a transformer with a shorted out secondary?

The answer is that the only use is as a glorified heater, because the only thing it is doing is burning off the power that is being fed into the primary. ..

Hi ,
  A shorted transformer could be more use than a "glorified heater". without heating..... but if you say so ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFpsK6EMPQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoc_9h4vCKs

[padova]

MileHigh@

Output should be more than 3kW. So this analysis is worth nothing,
if you wont to get some results, then  change the perspective. This is not accurate. Maybe in your thoughts. Maybe you are unconsciously avoiding some important things, or you're just not aware, or something. A guess you  just analyze this, without any practical approach. So it's imagination. But in wrong direction , if I may say.

Einstein once said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
For that I give him a credit. Though he made mistakes in other important things.


With all due respect