Clarence replication of Barbosa and Leal self powered generator

[AlienGrey]

Clarence has made several posts that indicate that he is merely bypassing the electric meter and part of the distribution panel of his home. He talks about popping breakers if the system isn't wired properly, and says outright


You will see a lot of people spending a lot of money and effort to "replicate" Clarence's system, only to find that it simply bypasses the electric meter and all the power used actually still comes from the electric grid.

But whatever. It's your money and time, and if you spent it doing something productive instead, or with your family... who knows what might happen.

yes your right, however, our friend Mr Nelson Racha uses a very similar circuit on his youtube site and calls it an electron trap where he appears to show a gain in energy, have you looked on his youtube site ?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJeF8TxjB0

[antijon]

AlienGrey, thanks for sharing that link. I watched this video https://youtu.be/G-ob1GY6dXs which looks like that circuit in operation. I thought it was interesting but didn't prove anything because he doesn't check the current and voltage across the bulb.

Then I watched this one https://youtu.be/KAtRv6PneNs and now I'm wondering what's going on!? When the vacuum is turned on, wattmeter goes to zero... it can't be from noise because the meter clearly shows 1kw when it's plugged in directly. We see the strip shows 231v and the vacuum is probably operating at 1kw, judging by the sound, so why no watts on the meter?

[pomodoro]

Whats going on is that for any credible readings oscilloscopes need to be used, and used properly. Instead of that wattmeter, an oscilloscope showing the voltage vs current and their phase needed to be used. To measure current a suitable resistor of low resistance needs to be in series with the circuit and the oscilloscope powered through an isolating transformer. Not so hard, yet people keep using these wattmeters that lie when they are made to power circuits that they are not designed for. If you get spiky currents, even an oscilloscope can become useless in the hands of inexperienced tinkerers.
Look for the obvious first.

[TinselKoala]

AlienGrey, thanks for sharing that link. I watched this video https://youtu.be/G-ob1GY6dXs which looks like that circuit in operation. I thought it was interesting but didn't prove anything because he doesn't check the current and voltage across the bulb.

Then I watched this one https://youtu.be/KAtRv6PneNs and now I'm wondering what's going on!? When the vacuum is turned on, wattmeter goes to zero... it can't be from noise because the meter clearly shows 1kw when it's plugged in directly. We see the strip shows 231v and the vacuum is probably operating at 1kw, judging by the sound, so why no watts on the meter?

Because the meter is in "overload" mode and shows 0 watts when it is in that mode. Watch carefully at 3:54, and again at 6:59, and again at 8:10 and you will see the "overload" message on the meter as it displays "0 Watts". At 8:10 the vacuum cleaner is plugged directly into the meter, not through the "white box", the meter indicates "overload" and reads 0, and if Nelson had just pushed that button one more time before the end of the video you'd see another "0 Watt" reading, even when the white box is not used. That would have been a rather obvious "tell"-- and it is obvious that Nelson knows this. This video has "comments disabled". Why is that? Is Nelson afraid someone will notice his deception and point it out?

[forest]

Damaged meter ? But why it shows overload when also displaying 33W real power ?