Quantum Energy Generator (QEG) Open Sourced (by HopeGirl)

[SchubertReijiMaigo]

"But our output voltage is in the multi kV range!" Sure... and what happens when you connect an unregulated voltage source to a low impedance load?

Impedance mismatch, maybe in this case the voltage will collapse (like loading any LC).
A Buck-Boost converter could do the job to match impedance.
A solar inverter will be more appropriate (they have a chip to regulate power).

[PCB]

(PCB)Does anybody present at these gatherings even raise their hand and mention rms or power factor.  I for one have not heard these terms in any of their videos or seen them mentioned in blog posts of others reporting back to the masses.
Let's call a cat a cat: it's a scam.
(SchubertReijiMaigo)I'm more worried that kind of things will do a lot af damage in the OU community where I believe that are honest researcher out there...
In fact when I see some new-age hippy things like "HopeGirl", "One People Community", "Our mother Gaia", "Love people",
->put every new age terminology here<- , where demonstration are performed in a village in the middle of nowhere it tend to raise in my head some big red flag.
Hell, doing science is not the same things as preaching in some new age group...

The reason that you do not see any of these things is because they are more of a gathering of "like minded" supporters of Hope Moore. These groups are very supportive of each other and and Hope Girl is using this to rally support in the pretence that they are working to help those who are in need of electricity around the world. Unfortunately she is grabbing every little piece of information that comes her way and sensationalizing it in order to ramp up her following. I am sure that James is not even aware of what she is putting out there until after the fact. There is an increasingly larger number of people all over the world that will be drawn to this. Not because of its technical merits or its breaking new age technology. That is why I think that the majority of the funding is coming in from people who are spiritually snared by the Hope Girl campaign.

So what your saying is that this is really a cult? Facts. engineering truths and alike do not really matter here. I'm wondering if Jamie part of the cult or just a tool?

[MileHigh]

PCB,

Here is a proposed posting for you:

Unfortunately this is a false alarm and the QEG is not producing over unity.  You do not use the peak-to-peak values for the voltage and the current to measure the power dissipation for the light bulb load.  The correct way to do it is to use one-half of the peak-to-peak values and then multiply them by 0.7071.  This gives you what is called the "RMS" (Root Mean Square) values for the voltage and current.

The power dissipated in the light bulb load is Vrms x Irms.

The reason you use RMS values is because this factors in the fact that higher voltages (or currents) give you disproportionally higher power dissipation levels.

1900 volts peak-to-peak, divided by two equals 950 volts.
950 volts times 0.7071 gives you 671.7 volts RMS
0.95 amps peak-to-peak divided by two gives you 0.475 amps.
0.475 amps times 0.7071 gives you 0.3359 amps RMS.
671.7 Volts RMS x 0.3359 Amps RMS = 226 watts
The electric motor is drawing 655 watts of power.
Therefore the efficiency of the QEG is 226/655 x 100 = 34.5%.


P.S.:  Rearranged one sentence and much better now.

[mscoffman]

The problem with a transformer or variac is it acts like a CVT which will pass unused power back to a previous stage, but if that stage
can't regulate, then passing the power back to it serves no purpose. The first stage where power comes from drive motor can regulate
but I think we can bet it won't do so with full stability. If the machine comes up non segmented (no-adjustments except for final load)
then it will come up cleanly for step resistance too. As far as converter impedence mismatch, that is the problem, the unit needs to
be able suport the low impedence of the load with stability so that it can claim to have powered that load.

Fortunately for photovoltaics they tend to behave with stability whether one uses their energy or not. I believe the MPP alogrithm used
might introduce instability into a sensitive source.

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One additional thing. It may be desirable to have an RFI "hash" filter between QEG (dc) output and an inverter
to delete spikes from static and out of band noise like from 400Hz ripple. You may want to look up the following
TE.CORCOM component under the the title of;; It's not necessarily designed to be used on the DC side but
after checking that is where I would put it. These are generally inexpensive insurance. I didn't check price on
this one. Again this low impedence to "noise" might mess with QEG operation.

Single Phase Power Line Filter for Frequency Converters


:MarkSCoffman

[MileHigh]

I read somewhere that HopeGirl (a.k.a "Hope Moore") is James' daughter.  I don't know more than reading it just once.

I believe that the claim of free energy is still up on her blog with the donate button, way more than 24 hours after the claim.  I can't believe that James and HopeGirl don't talk several times a day.  So I have no faith in James.  Not that I had faith in him before as I posted a week ago.  I doesn't fit for me.  I don't believe in James the patsy.

For MarkE, yes yes yes!  Great idea with the step-down transformer then the variac then the big fat power resistor.  That gives you a big fat AC load where you can dial in the impedance!  Freaking awesome man!

See then we could all sit around the QEG like boy scouts and toast free energy marshmallows over the resistor and sing Kumbayah!

MileHigh