Stephen Fyfe Supercap circuit - COP = 2.5 ?

[hartiberlin]

Hi all,
have a look at this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusjoRtz6Zk

I just have drawn the smaller S1 Mini circuit diagramm from the video. here it is:

[Void]

Hi Stefan. It looks about the same as Bedini's three battery arrangement, except this guy is
using super caps instead of batteries. I think it is definitely not over unity. There may be an efficiency
increase to some extent, but what people seem to overlook is that multiple batteries (or
super caps in this case) are used to power the load, compared to powering with just one battery
or super cap, so to compare performance to when using a single battery or single super cap
is actually not a straight forward comparison.


All the best...

[sm0ky2]

I agree with Void


However, there is something about storing electricity on
the back end of a load, that is intriguing.


Any situation that does that is "better" than throwing it to ground.
Because if that happens we are only losing what the load converts to work
Not necessarily what the load draws.

There are strong arguments suggesting the power companies do this
with our home panels. And still charge us for what they take back.

[Magluvin]

So when the switch is closed, does it drain the 700F cap thus wasting what was in it? Something needs to change there.

Mags

[hartiberlin]

So when the switch is closed, does it drain the 700F cap thus wasting what was in it? Something needs to change there.

Mags

Yes, although he has in his bigger devices a stepup converter connected to his big center cap, so he can use the steped up voltage to recharge his series cap bank
or use it to charge e.g. via the USB output of the stepup converter a mobile phone....

Well, also he stated in one video that  he can charge up his center 700 Farad cap from the series 4 x 100 Farad cap bank up to 3 Volts...
( one 100 Farad cap was broken, so he now used only 4 pieces in series in his S1 mini version)

He stated with 10 Volts on the 4x100 Farad stack ( so that is 10 Volts at 25 Farads)
he can charge up via the 12 LED diodes the 700 Farad cap to about 3 Volts.

So if we calculate the Joules energy via the Formula Wc= 0.5 x C x V^2 we get:

10 Volts @   25 Farad =  1250 Joule
3 Volts  @ 700 Farad = 3150 Joule.

So we have a COP of 2.52 , so big overunity, if he is right with his measurements...

Maybe because these are all capacitive currents running there, the big center cap is charging up also somehow from the environment ?

Or maybe via  their  "floating" ground all caps want to equalize somehow and the 700 Farad center cap is somehow charging up
more than it should ?
I think he just has to provide conclusive measurements first to really see, what is going on...

Regards, Stefan,