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[Grumage]

Dear gotoluc.

Very well done. Utilisation of reactive power.

One thing puzzles me however. I kept noticing the frequency was showing 60 Hz on your oscilloscope. Can you tell me where that was derived from?

As your drive motor never reached a speed of 3000 RPM (50 Hz single pair pole alternator) or 3600 RPM for 60Hz. I just wondered where this very steady 60 Hz signal was coming from?

Cheers Grum.

[petersone]

Hi Grum
The 60hz is coming from the mains via the variac, as far as I know.
peter

[Grumage]

Hi Grum
The 60hz is coming from the mains via the variac, as far as I know.
peter

Dear Peter.

So there lies the real conundrum!! How come the signals were in phase?? I assumed that at least one of the scope leads was connected to the Alternator. Perhaps if a schematic is shown all will be revealed!!

Cheers Grum.

[e2matrix]

Great work Luc and Happy Birthday!     I picked up a nice 1.5HP motor recently (3 phase) with the idea of doing some experiments along this line.   I think some of this is similar to what has been done with Rotoverters on the EVGray Yahoo group except I believe they are using capacitors to try to make use of reactive power BUT I don't believe I've ever seen anyone using a MOT along with Caps.    I think the combo of the Caps and transformer you have there is a very good way to get the balance needed to make use of reactive power.    While I think I understand your hookup could we get a basic schematic of input and output setups?   Values on parts are not needed as I know that will vary depending on motors and many things.   Just a basic schematic would be great.   
     
   One small item I think may help your results even more.   I suspect you are losing some power with the apparently small gauge clip leads you have feeding the Ryobi motor.   Maybe not much loss but I've made up some of my own clip leads using 12 gauge wire for such purposes.  Excellent video and even with the motor noise I could clearly understand everything you said.   I downloaded it for safe keeping too    

[romerouk]

Here is a quick test i've done to confirm Luc discovery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUaNOf_IYBg
It also works with a normal transformer instead of the motor having a solid state version, similar with Stephanov transformer