I tried to rebiuld a Don Smith Device

[forest]

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.

warm warm warmier -  you need to find the way to REPEAT WHAT YOU DONE many times per second !
can you cut using sunlight ? NO, but you can using laser.... both are light waves...

[John.K1]

Sun Light, Laser?   The sun emits large spectrum of wave lengths - frequencies  The laser is focused on one wave length which can be condensed. I think I do understand that analogy.

To the picture above - Sorry for my low knowledge of electricity but if I good understand right the HV transformer generates alternating current. If we put  a diode before the spark on HV wire we will get on that side discharges from only positive charge and if I put the diode between my DC source and the spark  - would that work?  Also I think discharge tube might do better = more uniform discharges in the closed / gas environment.

Based on the picture above something like this:

[energia9]

warm warm warmier -  you need to find the way to REPEAT WHAT YOU DONE many times per second !
can you cut using sunlight ? NO, but you can using laser.... both are light waves...

its hard to think how i could reproduce the same blinding brightness many times per second,  all i could do now is light the 3x 100 watt lightbulbs or 1x 500 watt lightbulb every 5-10 seconds.
to light those lights every 0.1 second  we would require about 60 watts at the input

forest do you think free energy could be attained this way?  im a skeptical but i question the impossible.  maybe im really talking against myself.

John.K1
Yes  like that and i thought putting an earth ground at the end of the coil draws the spark in that direction

[havuhung]

Hi All,
The idea of the circuit diagram is good, but it can not work due to the DC voltage is too low!

[energia9]

Hi All,
The idea of the circuit diagram is good, but it can not work due to the DC voltage is too low!

i thought of the same, but what voltage would be sufficient to be able to break the gap with the aid of a high voltage stream?

say 200 volts?