Shorting a tuned L/C circuit

[gotoluc]

Hi Alex,


I sent you a PM, did you receive it?


Thanks


Luc

[telecom]

Yes, just got it - was in a place w/o Internet.
Regards

[joellagace]

Sorry all for the late reply.  The post did not show up and I thought I did something wrong.
I did some more experimenting and have made better contraptions since. Here is one of my early experiments. Part one of the circuit. It was a very sloppy and my apologizes, I don't have a lab to work with! Just a tiny apartment.

Step 1 - Getting usable power
http://radiogaga.ga/Joellagace/extracting-free-energy-from-the-air/

To explain the video, I got an Coax acting as electret and "antenna" Hanging horizontally 100 feet out the window supported at the other end to trees.

First thing I did was try and rectify what ever induced voltage to coax got from the ambient. The meter then showed a fluctuation of around 0-1 volts.  I was not even able to drive an LED with this power as is. Perhaps with a spark gap Assembly and intermittent discharges into a storing capacitor This one its own would charge over time but, This was not my goal.

How ever, Using the shield part of the coax as inducer feeding this into a tuned L/C circuit very much like how ham radio operators bring tiny HF antennas into resonance. Making the antenna act as if it was a huge 1/4. I did the same thing with this. My idea was I wanted to build a tuned L/C circuit at 60hz and couple into that. Even if just a few watts. Would be interesting! But with the equipment I had at the time, I was only able to bring this tuned L/C circuit to resonate at the 4th harmonic of 60hz. I don't understand that strange capacitor assembly. How this configuration effected the resonating frequency? I just kept adding more and more capacitors like this and the L/C meter kept showing a drop in frequency, Along with using the huge secondary of an old Tesla coil project, This thing was resonating to some nearby "Dirty" digital switching AC to DC power supply producing plenty of harmonics? Anyhow. I was then able to pull in a good solid 25 volts once rectified to DC. This was able to light an LED.

Step two (Extracting watts)  I am still working on. I need to short out this tuned L/C at the same rate as the incoming signal. I'm not sure what method works best.  Perhaps a digital switch controlled by some IC super low voltage IC enough to drive a "Shorting" relay across the tuned L/C, With some low wingdings very low resistance pick up coils, That will extract these "Shorts" Where would this extra low voltage high current go after? Who knows..... Maybe rectify it and charge DC electronics? Run an AC inverter on the DC side to run all your higher wattage 110 Volts AC device needs?


Here is a link to my video, This was early experiment of part one. I done much better since Anyone who can fill in some voids here please feel free to comment. Even advice on making it work better if you got some! Thanks

http://radiogaga.ga/Joellagace/extracting-free-energy-from-the-air/

[telecom]

Hi Joel,
great work!
You can try automotive ignition coil as a step down transformer.
Just an idea.

[Belfior]

Hmm I was just wondering is this what you re trying to do, but with a transistor as the switch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVK84Z8BSnc&t=158s