I tried to rebiuld a Don Smith Device

[GM]

Hi all,   

today I tried to rebuild a device I saw on the website of Donald L. Smith (http://www.altenergy-pro.com/gallery.htm).
I rebiult device No. 4. Extracting useful energy from an plasma generator.
My setup was nearly similar to the setup shown on Don's page. 
The only difference was that I used a wire with smaller diameter (0.7mm) but more turns (10) for the coil on the top of the plasma ball.   

After switching on the plasma ball the gas into the spere glows, but I could not measure any voltage on the coil. :-(

Then I placed the antipole of the plasmagenerator on the top of the ball. So there was a bright plasma beam going through the middle of the big air coil. But nothing happens. 0 volt in the coil, meassuring was done with an analouge voltmeter (DC and AC mode).

I have to say that I am not fully convinced by Don's devices. He claims that some of his devices put out really high amounts of power, but I could not imagine that one gets 1000 volts from a single coil with max. 30 turns on a magnetic core.
And there is one more curious thing in the explanation text for his device 9. He write: "...Note the coils in pairs, left and right. Each pair produces 1000 Volts at 50 Amps; 8 pairs = 8000 Volts at 400 Amps when output to a Buss Bar..."  But if you connect 8 coil pairs you got 8000 volt @ 50 amp OR 1000 volt @ 400 amp depending on the kind of connection. Is this a simple oversight?    Does somebody know one of Don's devices and can confirm the functionallity?

Bye Markus

[hartiberlin]

The devices of Don Smith seem to be a fake and he also could never prove, that
they worked as claimed. He is doing the free energy scene no good with his fakes...

Regards, Stefan.

[oouthere]

I spoke with someone at a conference (Calvin Power Wheel builder) and he's certain Don simply mismeasured and there is no o/u.  It didn't seem to be intentional, just incorrect.

Rich

[GM]

Oh, it's a great pity to hear this. So I stop now tring to reconstruct Don's experiements.

But nevertheless I show you the pictures from my plasmaball setup.

Bye Markus

[Freedomfuel]

If you try to copy so called 'overunity' devices from plans and photographs on the internet you are bound to be dissapointed.  In the case of Bedini , for instance, he conceals much of the details of how his devices work in the patents yet gets upset when sceptics point out that he does not publish reproducible experiments, performance data or allow independant testing of his devces by qualified engineers.  As far as I am concerned Bedini, Smith and others like them are BS merchants.

You should approach the work of Smith and others like him as a source of ideas for your own experiments based on your own ideas and on an understanding of basic principles.  The latter is hard to achieve because there are no experts on free energy on the internet.  There is also a lot of misinformation placed on the internet to throw people off the trail.  All the real experts are working for the US government in classified projects.  You might find my article in this section titled 'Free Energy Comes From Atmosphere, Not Vacuum' a helpful source of fundamentel principles for engineering these devices.  From various clues I have received from Disclosure Project 'insiders' and other sources on the internet this essay vaguely defines the engineering principles of overunity engineering design. 

Of all the Don Smith designs numbers 9-1 and 9-2 look the most interesting.  According to the design principles I have published a design like this should have a verticle axis of rotation for the magnet assemblies since such devices are supposed to beam a signal into the ionosphere.

Check out these two authentic designs for ideas to make your own designs:

Roschin and Godin. Experimental Research of the Magnetic-Gravity Effects
http://www.rialian.com/rnboyd/godin-roschin.htm
http://www.rexresearch.com/roschin/roschin.htm

Mikell Device
http://www.fdp.nu/mikelldevice/thedevice.asp