Akula0083 30 Watt Self Running Generator.

[NickZ]

  JohnK1:
  Sorry to offend you. Although I was being honest,  I have just retracted by previous reply.
I'm not trying to impress anybody. 
                 Carry on,
                                  NickZ

[Ed morbus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb2sN2o4grc

[MileHigh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb2sN2o4grc

I gave up on this thread already.  This new 18-minute clip shows a "magic" self-powering setup, yet again.

For starters, that looks like a 5-volt DC power supply.  What the hell is the DC output of a power supply doing driving the primary of a transformer?  If I am correct and we are looking at a small AC-in-DC-out switching power supply, that makes no sense.

Somewhere in the second half of the clip he measures the input to the switching power supply in "self-run" mode.  If I recall correctly he measures something like 5.6 volts DC.  The power supply has an input requirement of something like 96 to 250 volts AC.  It doesn't make any sense.

Finally, I attached a frame from the clip.  He has broken the seal on on the power supply.  That would tend to indicate that he opened it up for some reason.  One can only wonder why.

MileHigh

[TinselKoala]

I gave up on this thread already.  This new 18-minute clip shows a "magic" self-powering setup, yet again.

For starters, that looks like a 5-volt DC power supply.  What the hell is the DC output of a power supply doing driving the primary of a transformer?  If I am correct and we are looking at a small AC-in-DC-out switching power supply that makes no sense.

Somewhere in the second half of the clip he measures the input to the switching power supply in "self-run" mode.  If I recall correctly he measures something like 5.6 volts DC.  The power supply has an input requirement of something like 96 to 250 volts AC.  It doesn't make any sense.

Finally, I attached a frame from the clip.  He has broken the seal on on the power supply.  That would tend to indicate that he opened it up for some reason.  One can only wonder why.

MileHigh

Are you saying this video is a fake? Just because it violates Conservation of Miracles?

Hey, at least he's not using one of those silly pot core ferrite things.

Maybe the DC output of the power supply is just used to bias the core, and the input power to the supply is pulsed. Or something. Right.

[MileHigh]

Indeed!  TK....

Meanwhile.... Google "refuses" to cough up anything on a "Mean Well AS-25-5."

Google tries to force you to look at the "Mean Well RS-25-5."   (see attached)

What that normally means is that the AS-25-5 is identical to the RS-25-5.   The AS-25-5 is just an "OEM" version of the RS-25-5.  The reason for this is to prevent someone from buying the cheaper RS-25-5 when that part fails in their printer (as an example.)  The printer manufacturer wants to force you to buy the "authorized" part from them only at a much higher price.

That's another story from the Naked Electronics City....

MileHigh