Anyone got a 3ph motor to do a quick One-wire bulb circuit by Brian Prater?

[hartiberlin]

The remarkable fact is that the light once lit, stays lit after you switch open one of its input lines, as to be lit by
"one wire", costing just 5.8W for the 58W of energy used (not to account the other 58W running the motor). So
the light burns on 58 watts one wire, and in fact uses the same amount of energy, switched on or off… "one wire
or both wires" cost the same energy. (the light resistance is around 174-280 Ohms while lit). Node-anti-node,
wherever you are at it you get it with one wire.

Hi Paul,
please show another circuit diagram, how it is supposed to be running
on just 1 wire input ?

How should it draw then 5.8 Watts ?

Do you mean 1 wire input from the AC 118 Volts 60 Hz line
or do you mean something different ?

Normally 1 wire systems like Avramenko plugs etc, only work at
radio frequency ranges , where the capacitance coupling plays a huge role...
and not at 60 Hz.

Please explain.
Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

[Goat]

Hi Stefan

From the description he gives there would be a switch in the circuit (see image below) to disconnect the input feed to the light bulb making it run on only one wire.

Regards,
Paul

[hartiberlin]

Hi Paul,
if he uses the switch as you have shown,
it would only be possible
to light up the lamp, if there was RF frequencies
on the line to the lamp.
Maybe some RF bursts from a sparking commutator ?

But as it is an AC 3 phase motor there are
probably no sparking commutators involved ??

Or are there any sparks somewhere ?

In a pure 60 Hz environment the bulb
can not light up with just 1 wire.

Regards, Stefan.

[Goat]

Hi Stefan

I'm really not sure how it works!  His explanation is that it is due to magnetic reconnection. 

"The one wire bulb works on the concept of magnetic reconnection.

Magnetic reconnection is the process whereby magnetic field lines from different magnetic domains are spliced
to one another, changing the overall topology of a magnetic field. It is a violation of an approximate
conservation law in plasma physics, and can concentrate mechanical or magnetic energy in both space and time."

I read somewhere that RE (Radiant Energy) has an RF component to it so you may be right about the RF burst. Also as you mentioned it's a 3 phase motor so I also doubt that it's being done through sparking.

I was hoping that someone who has a 3 phase motor could try it out and look into it further as I don't have the equipment to test it right now.  Today is Canada day here and most places are closed so I can't even call around to find a used surplus 3 phase motor to try it out on.  Oh well, tomorrow is another day

Regards,
Paul

[hartiberlin]

Hmm,
maybe you are wrong with the way the bulb is wired into the circuit ?
Is there anywhere a video can be seen, that will show it ?