I tried to rebiuld a Don Smith Device

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Energia9,

Think how can you control the rate of capacitor discharge into the bulb.

Best,

[energia9]

Forest, Google

The bulbs are only for amazement how much power can be concentrated in a capacitor.
The real work i think relies in the control circuits upon feed back.
i seriously think it wont work without it.  it dont need be complicated.
as i see in the writings of Nikola tesla, he used rather complicated rotary switches.
or i thought on the idea of a spark gap controlling low voltage ( 9v-240v), if its possible at all.
my idea is that with a plasma stream low voltage could get through, this would control infinite wattage without using and damaging any expensive transistor in the main circuit.
possible at all?
if this works at all it eliminates the need for expensive high power transistors within our main circuit, also less losses in the system.

[havuhung]

Hi energia9,
I have a question?
DC low voltage (12V) how to keep a stable arc?

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@energia9

Interesting idea. I remember few weeks/months ago seeing a schematic in Selfrunning devices from TK thread, where exactly same principle was used (havnt link to it now). Problem there was, the HV wouldnt take the way across the spark gap, but through the feeding low voltage DC/low frequency AC supply (not remember exactly now) and just be shorted, so no spark....
But perhaps u can find a solution to prevent this (diodes, high inductance coils, ect.)

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Energia9,

Try to use ultra capacitors, they discharge very slow.

Or you may hook up lead acid batteries in series with your cap in series with your load. Say your cap is rated 120 volts, just hook up 10 lead acid batteries in series with the cap and the cap will dump its charge in batts and you can power your load.

What do you think ?

Best,