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

[Farmhand]

It's kinda odd but then again it's kinda run of the mill, really. TK's had his device name stolen now as well, the lowies ! My setup is
coming along, it might not play enough tunes to be a "harmonica". And HV parallel plate air variable capacitors are expensive. The
ones I've got are not for HV but have been holding out until earlier, maybe an insect flew into it, it did sound like a zapper. A fly was
sitting on a small sphere I had on the HV end of my spark gap Tesla coil, I energized the coil and the streamer came right out
through the fly's head and it dropped trailing a small streamer between it and the top load.  I videotaped it and tagged it on the
end of one of my video's but I cannot find it .  The fly was like a bump on the sphere and so the initial streamer formed at the fly.
Looked like it pulled the fly down initially. Was very quick demise.

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P.S. I think I need a micro controller and a pair of servo or stepper motors to turn my variable capacitor knobs for me. It's a dodgy
deal leaning over the setup and touching the caps, I've had a few HF arc burns from the HF LV on the other arrangement but no
HV HF arc burns yet, they're hot as Hades.

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[MileHigh]

There is an update from Canada from four days ago on the money page:

http://www.gofundme.com/qegac-quantum-energy-gen

Hi everyone! There have been several delays, but we are back no track now. We are winding 2 cores in Canada that will be finished by the end of next week. Following that, we will commence our build in Montreal.

We are still very short of our goal and very out of pocket. Please do what you can to help and pass this go fund page around. Thanks.

To witness the build please check in at qegcanada.ca or search qeg canada on face book.

I note they have raised $2015 out of $8000.  Even though they are "out of pocket, " when it doesn't work I think that they should return all of the donated money back to the contributors such that they are even more out of pocket.

We will *hopefully* see what happens.  There might be a boat in a marina somewhere in Montreal that needs a new anchor.

[MileHigh]

I think Jamie putting up an antenna/transmitter is Three Stooges comedy.

[Farmhand]

Sure was, Mo was working the camera, just in case Larry fell so they could get it on camera and run a "go fund me" hospital
and rehab fees campaign. Curly has to stay safe, Curly is the "Face" of the campaign. 

Here's a page with a list of different antenna types. Can anyone spot what type of antenna is Jamies from the list and what type
was the one I used ?

List of antenna's. Some interesting info on there.
http://www.antenna-theory.com/antennas/main.php

And here's a page on "Shortened Verticals" as in vertical antenna's, capacitive and inductive elements are used and for radiating
the ground is important and is covered first and in detail but for RF grounding it's just general info really I guess.
http://www.radiobrandy.com/AM-Short-Vertical-ants-2.html

I found this section interesting and the parts below that are good too, it's all good, as far as RF goes. My Tesla coils generally
have very sharp tuning, and with even the small ones I can "block out" a narrow band in the middle of the reception range
for the local 840 kHz station so that I can receive the radio and listen to it on a portable Transistor radio on both sides of a blank
or "silent" section. If I could modulate my voice on there i could do a very small area local radio broadcast in by breaking into the
radio station people are listening to, but I would not do that and my power is always very low when experimenting like that. I'll
bet the coils on my new setup have a fairly high Q. I'll use a radio tuned to 840 Khz and 1260 kHz and see what effect the
420 kHz fundamental has as well as tuning one secondary to 840kHz then the other opposite polarity one as well ect..
Even the laptop makes the radio scream if it's held too close so the trick is to get the distance right to hear the effect clearly.

Note also a 1:1 aspect ratio has a higher "Q" than a long narrow aspect ratio coil. I try to build experimental coils fairly large
diameter and close to a 1:1 aspect ratio.

bandwidth

There is one possible problem with a shortened and tuned antenna. If the Q is too high and the bandwidth is too narrow, the
sidebands will be attenuated and the audio quality of the signal will suffer. However, you probably will not have this problem. It's
almost impossible to accidentally build a high-Q antenna system.

If you want or need to experiment with antenna bandwidth, the following actions will lower the Q and increase the bandwidth:

    use larger diameter material for the vertical radiator
    re-build the loading coil with smaller diameter and increased length

Note the radiating (radio) effect is greater (more efficient) above 1600 kHz and so we can understand why Tesla considered using
relatively low frequencies of around 30 to 40 kHz up to 100 kHz or a bit more for his proposed Ground power transmission system.

So the higher the resonating frequency of the coil/ antenna combo the higher is the "radiated power" in the atmosphere, kinda.
How it's made matters a lot as well.

The capacity of Jamies antenna compared to his frequency didn't seem to me to be enough to cause the current we seen, he
probably faked it anyway.


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[Hoppy]

I note they have raised $2015 out of $8000.  Even though they are "out of pocket, " when it doesn't work I think that they should return all of the donated money back to the contributors such that they are even more out of pocket.

Absolutely!