Interesting experiment with an transformer, 2 lamps, diodes and an magnet

[Jdo300]

Hi Markus,

I am a second year electrical engineering student and have access to a lab to do the testing. I have an oscilloscope similar to the one you are using so I can *hopefully* do the power measurements. If not, I can get help to figure out how to do it. The results from this experiment will be very valuable because it is amazing that you are getting that much power back from the back emf spike alone! I will be very interested to try this out and get some objective measurements to compare to yours. If this device is indeed amplifying the kicks, then we have a big part of Steve Mark's device figured out now.

My next set of tests will be to create a rotating magnetic field with iron wires. My theory is that the iron wire wrapped toroidally on his two early designs is part of an oscillator circuit that is triggered by the kicks from the small toroidal transformer on his device. The kicks can then be collected into a capacitor until it fills up and discharges into the oscillator of the circuit to kick it into action. The timing of this cap's discharge can be regulated in his control circuit to have the oscillator ramp up to a certain voltage without burning up the device. But since the inductor of the oscillator is the iron coils, it will create a high frequency rotating magnetic field that will spin past his fine collector wires and produce power! I still have yet to test out this idea but that?s the basic principle in my mind :-D.

God Bless,
Jason O

[GM]

Jason,

...My theory is that the iron wire wrapped toroidally on his two early designs is part of an oscillator circuit that is triggered by the kicks from the small toroidal transformer on his device.

I can't imagine how the wrapped iron wire should looks like.
Do you mean the iron wire is wrapped like the teslawire on my torodial core?
Or would you post a small draft so that I can understand it better?

Thank you in advance.

Groet, Markus

[Jdo300]

Hi Markus,

Yes, the iron "bailing wire" that Steve used in his early device appears to have the iron wire wound toroidally, there are four coils around the peremiter of the device so it seems like they could be wound like a two-phase AC motor to create the rotating field.

God Bless,
Jason O

[MeggerMan]

Hi Markus,
Just realised that it was you that did the original experiment - well done.
I too would like to re-create your experiment.
I have all parts needed, except for the CD4093, a very clever use of two diodes to get a variable duty cycle.
My old storage scope does have a digital output though.
In my component box I have a NE555 timer but that will not support a variable duty cycle of 0 to 100% as far as I know.

Did you use copper wire for the windings?
Have you tried it with copper wire?
What is Tesla wire, the only thing I can think of is copper coated iron wire?
Have you tried two magnets: one above and one below the core with like poles facing the core?
This way you should be able to get a neutral flux density in the core centre with it increasing as it gets nearer the windings.

Regards

Rob

[GM]

Hello Jason,

...Speaking of which, I want to duplicate your experiment and was wondering if you still have the contact information for the eBay seller that you got the core from. Also, what gauge wire do you have wound on the core?

I am a bit low on time.. so a short answer this time.

The ebay-nickname of the seller of the ferrite cores is "michaelacm". This nick is still active, but he offers no cores on ebay at the moment.

The teslawire I used is 0.3 mm in diameter (*). I wound exactly 42 turns on one half of the core (180 dgr.)
The frequency of the sqarewave generator is around 15.7 KHz and the duty cycle is about 20%
on-time (I guess).

edit: Sorry, the wire is not 0.3 mm in diameter, rather 0.5 or 0.6 mm. Unfortunately I don't have the original reel, so I cant say it for sure. But compared to a well known 0.3mm wire it is thicker

Bye Markus

PS: Regarding my other post you answered ('A vague idea...' in german)... don't try to understand my
earlier drawing in this post. It won't be working. What I meant in my last post is, that I have to think about
to connect two toroid cores (from this current experiment) which feed one another with their kickbacks.