Selfrunning cold electricity circuit from Dr.Stiffler

[canam101]

I was wondering that myself. In fact, why doesn't Dr. Stiffler publish complete specs on how to construct the device, since he has said he wants to give it to the world.

It would save people from wasting time guessing about one thing and another trying to replicate the device.

He has published complete specs.  What you have here is a bunch of people not doing exactly what he said.  You don't really expect him to write more detail that people don't follow, do you?

Cheers,

Mr. Entropy

If that's true, then it is the incompetence of the experimenters that we are seeing. But I have the impression that these are knowledgeable people, who can build a device from good specs.

[armagdn03]

And many of them are! calm down and watch.

[k4zep]

And many of them are! calm down and watch.

Hi All,

I agree.  Don't get in a tizzy and don't anyone put out any "Wedggies".  There are OBVIOUSLY a lot of good well versed folk out there.  I can't say how much good input and theoretical help I have received from several people.  Calculating the basic free air input impedance/resistance is a big help in understand this VERY strange circuit.  I have played with many circuits over the years and this ones beats all.

It is strange because the AV plug does neat things in thin air that are reflected back on the input.  Knowing the input voltage, resistance and hence current really enables you to make some fairly good calculations in some respect.  Every few min I work with this, better ways to calculate and use the circuit comes up.  I stopped and cleaned up my 2X4 Shop and had an new idea. 

It seems the more you isolate the whole circuit, remove parasitic capacitance, the more efficient it becomes.  Dr. Stiffler mentioned that to me in one of his post.  IT IS VERY IMPORTANT.  I have now chopped off both of my leads that are not used in the BF coil and placed coil up on wood block away from plate capacitance of backplain.  Another strange thing, it seems the output of the AV plug is a constant current source till you exceed the max peak voltage put out by the large coil on the BF core.  Dead shorted I can get 25 ma out of the AV plug.......IF you look back at the input of 22V @ 250 ohms,, funny numbers...........I still don't know if you take the theoretical input power and always use that power IN from gen in your calculations of the output.  Depending on my loading, I get a COP of from 4 to about 10 to one.  Again, loading of a AV plug is a curious thing.  It just is unsettling.?

Sure could use some theoretical help here.

Ben K4ZEP

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Ben,
You may know this already but this is another way to measure input impedance (see attachment):

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Ben,
Equations are wrong. Please ignore my last post. I will try to fix them.