Carlos Benitez patent No.17811 circuit drawing self runner

[antimony]

A Buzz Box,,


I found that when using a mechanical interrupter I still needed to use a small cap, just like an ignition coil does.

I am going to try again with different C caps, but at the time i used pretty large caps I think,  so it could be that.

Thanks for the reply.

[Curious_Celt]

For what it's worth, I have just recently come across Carlos Benitez and his System for generating electric currents, and have decided to try and replicate it as per the Patents.

My main reason for trying this particular project was that it did not seem to rely on fancy high-tech electronics, so could be suitable for a medium to low-tech setting, i.e., homemade lighting, simple electric motors, possibly simple valve radios etc., and would be suitable for people who wanted or insisted on living off-grid.

Everything in the patents could be made by your average mechanic, blacksmith, handyman etc, out of (fairly) easily obtainable materials.

I very soon discovered that I needed the complete set of Patents to make sense of the original 1914 patent. The complete set is listed below, and was found at the European Patent Office website.

GB191417811A.pdf - Benitez's 1st Patent.
Sets out his basic system for generating useable electric power from an initial electrical charge.

GB191505591A.pdf - Benitez's 2nd Patent.
A Patent of Addition relating to Patent 17811, which describes certain improvements to the basic system, supposedly making the system cheaper to build and maintain.

GB191514311A.pdf - Benitez's 3rd Patent.
Also a Patent of Addition relating to Patents 17811 and 5591, which gives both provisional and complete specifications on using his system with "low voltages, smaller capacities" and "greater facilities for starting".

GB1918121561A.pdf - Benitez's 4th Patent.
A Patent which describes a different method of making and operating Mr Benitez's original system, including showing provisions for automatic operation. More useful, at least for me, is the inclusion of a detailed example showing the order of determining and working out the values of the various resistances, capacitances and inductances, used in the machine.

The file numbers were as I found them on Google. "GB" refers to the country of patent, in this case England, UK. The next four numbers are the year of application for the patent. The last numbers are the actual patent number. I do not know what the "A" designates, but relates to the EPO numbering system.

These patents are a masterclass in English legalistic wordage, and make reading the documents heavy going. I am in the process of getting rid of the legalese and turning the docs into a readable engineering format (without changing the meaning). Once made into plain English, I can begin my replication...

There are a number of words used that have very different meanings in the modern era to those of the early 1900's. Battery, condenser, collector, accumulator, for instance, are all used in different ways in the patents, and can be confusing.

[itsu]

CC,

thanks for info, i hope you will publish your translation into plain English.

Regards Itsu

[ramset]

CC
a very timely reboot

There will be a much closer look at this ,it has been on the to do list for quite some time.
and recently pushed to the front of the line [At Luc's lab [member Gotoluc].
also to note, member Aking21 [and others ] ,have seen a gain here too ?

respectfully
Chet