COP 20.00 (2000%) Times, Reactive Power Energy Source Generator,

[listener191]

All,

Re Jasons simulation... what if you take the series connected parallel charged caps and then swap the + & - ,so when discharged into the 2nd quadrant, the voltage difference is 3 x peak sine. This may equalize the charge and discharge current amplitudes.

For that matter is there any visual confirmation that the caps are  placed in series when charged? By using the method above if the caps are charged in parallel and stay in parallel  there still would be a difference of 2 x peak sine but charge would not be halved.

Barry

[forest]

@Garret: excellent analysis....and @ everybody else: that is why, with a cap charge-discharge system, you have to have the capacitor charging energy coming from somewhere else other than the battery you are charging with the resulting energy. This is not a viable closed-loop idea because of the losses that are inescapable.
But... you set up your electrosmog harvesters or your atmospheric antennae or your Tesla receivers or your xbox wifi, whatever, which can charge the capacitor bank in series to a relatively high voltage. Then you discharge this energy with caps in parallel at a lower voltage, to charge your battery or run your appliance. The charging can take place over longer time periods than the use of the energy, so you wind up ahead. Not overunity but in a sense "free energy" which otherwise is just wasted.

Wow! Accidentally you uncovered the real solution, just remove "[size=78%]The charging can take place over longer time periods" [/size]

[listener191]

All,

Apologies for the crude schematic. This scheme is in alignment with slide 41 of the  just released Babcock Murray presentation. This doesnt need the caps to be be series linked for discharge.


Barry

[G4RR3ττ]

Hi Listener191,

That circuit cannot work the way you've shown with the I(t) and V(t) diagrams. The current will actually be in the same direction as before since the interleaved capacitor's potential is in series with the AC source, thus the AC line potential will rise, like two batteries connected in additive series, therefore current doesn't change direction.

Now, if you used a center tap transformer to invert the pulse current, this may actually work, but not as you've shown.

I've redrawn your diagram to show the directions of the currents for charge and discharge, notice the direction of the discharge currents for the interleaved capacitors: they don't cause current reversals.

[listener191]

All,

There is a link between both set of caps, so that rules out parallel/series switching. The linked terminals do not appear to have other connections so it would appear that the caps are in series for voltage rating purposes.

Barry