Captret - Capacitor and Electret

[miki02131]

@all

I've never had any of my capacitors blown up or leak and i have a hard time believing that they do. I only use new capacitors and i buy them from Mouser.com. If you're using used capacitors then you might be affected by the "Capacitor plague". This Capacitor plague started when some companies went cheap and used the wrong formula that kept the capacitors insides from leaking. The best thing to use is new capacitors, and i've never exceed 17 volts. Also stay under the voltage on the capacitor. As for stiffler try not to listen to much of what he says about the captret. Stiffler like to post bad things about it and spread lies about it due to the fact that the captret idea got more attention than his similar but very different idea.

As for the extra energy i've concluded that its coming from the ambient heat energy that surrounds us. This would prove why some of my experiments don't work that well in my cold room, but put my hand over the capacitor and the voltage starts to go up. All seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBPAKNUWiAs

Although I disagree with your understanding or interpretation of the captret, I have to agree with you on your last post about that dude. He is not qualified to judge your results. You can see that in his youtube video, he was unable to even lit an LED with the Captret. Even an elementary kid should be able to put that circuit together and get an LED lit on first go.

Miki Out.

[NickZ]

     @ Ibepointless2 and All:
     Thank you for the positive out look.  Although it may seam as though I am siding with the DR.,   I am not. I'm just looking for a permanent and dependable power source.  Unfortunately I just damaged two more capacitors that are part of my last 4 cap Captret set up, that lasted only 7 hours.  This one was part of the different wiring idea that doesn't use the positive post on the cap.  Stefan came up with this idea a couple of days ago, but it may be working only as a resistor system. I just don't know yet as it stopped working after 7 hours.  And will not start now, without changing caps.
I am working on the Captret system to run as a permanent power source, so I'm not looking to light a single led dimly for a while, at low voltage.
  I feel the reason that the Captret is a power source is because of the  cap producing the extra energy (as if it were a battery).  Even after they are shorted out manually, they just come back for more. Even after a week or more of running on the same source battery.  I do see that it is very important to use the Right Caps ( new), and keep the voltage at around 15 volts, or the caps will cold fry.
  I have been running test on this everyday now for almost two months.  And I think there is a similarity in the effect as compared to the Joule rigger, and other capacitor powered devices.
   If someone has been able to light More than One Led  off of their Captret for over a week, without discharging the battery, but instead maintaining its voltage.  Let us know... 

[hartiberlin]

@all

I've never had any of my capacitors blown up or leak and i have a hard time believing that they do. I only use new capacitors and i buy them from Mouser.com. If you're using used capacitors then you might be affected by the "Capacitor plague". This Capacitor plague started when some companies went cheap and used the wrong formula that kept the capacitors insides from leaking. The best thing to use is new capacitors, and i've never exceed 17 volts. Also stay under the voltage on the capacitor. As for stiffler try not to listen to much of what he says about the captret. Stiffler like to post bad things about it and spread lies about it due to the fact that the captret idea got more attention than his similar but very different idea.

As for the extra energy i've concluded that its coming from the ambient heat energy that surrounds us. This would prove why some of my experiments don't work that well in my cold room, but put my hand over the capacitor and the voltage starts to go up. All seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBPAKNUWiAs

Well my caps also did not leak nor blow,
but I only worked with 10 Volts DC and my caps had 2700 uF 35 Volts rating or so...
So the voltage was below that.

I just see the site from Dr.Stiffler:

http://67.76.235.52/e_seg01.asp

where he had simular experiments done in the past, but all more
with high frequency currents, not with DC...

I can verify that a bit charged capacitor will rise in voltage
with temperature.

I had a few years back done an experiment,
where I had several 100 nF ceramic caps in parallel
charged up to 2 Volts or so and when I used
a hairblower to blow hot air at them and heated them
up this way, the voltage rose to
over 10 Volts when I remember correctly.


I just wonder, if this effect could be used for an efficient
thermo to electric generator ?

Maybe one can just use Fresnell lenses or silvered satellite dishes
to heat a capacitor bank and then discharge it into a load and recharge
it again via the heat ?

This would need probably need very heat dependend dielectricums.

The question is, if it is enough to discharge the caps,
so they will fall in voltage again and if the voltage
will rise then again due to them being still hot,
or if one has to cool them down again, before a new
heating cycle can begin ?

I guess this should be a neat test to see, how much
difference energy a heated ceramic cap from 20 degrees Celsius
to 100 degrees Celsius can deliver ?

[ibpointless2]

     @ Ibepointless2 and All:
     Thank you for the positive out look.  Although it may seam as though I am siding with the DR.,   I am not. I'm just looking for a permanent and dependable power source.  Unfortunately I just damaged two more capacitors that are part of my last 4 cap Captret set up, that lasted only 7 hours.  This one was part of the different wiring idea that doesn't use the positive post on the cap.  Stefan came up with this idea a couple of days ago, but it may be working only as a resistor system. I just don't know yet as it stopped working after 7 hours.  And will not start now, without changing caps.
I am working on the Captret system to run as a permanent power source, so I'm not looking to light a single led dimly for a while, at low voltage.
  I feel the reason that the Captret is a power source is because of the  cap producing the extra energy (as if it were a battery).  Even after they are shorted out manually, they just come back for more. Even after a week or more of running on the same source battery.  I do see that it is very important to use the Right Caps ( new), and keep the voltage at around 15 volts, or the caps will cold fry.
  I have been running test on this everyday now for almost two months.  And I think there is a similarity in the effect as compared to the Joule rigger, and other capacitor powered devices.
   If someone has been able to light More than One Led  off of their Captret for over a week, without discharging the battery, but instead maintaining its voltage.  Let us know...

I think Lasersaber got the idea or some idea of the joule ringer from the captret as you can see in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bExjc8PcAQA

I've gotten one captret circuit to light for a week without losing power but instead gaining power. seen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnP-jyySeDI

I use all leads even the +
You can put you meter to it and see that a voltage is coming off of it, but i remember for the self charging led light one i use two caps, one had the + and the other only had the - connected. But to see self charging you you might need the caps in a well heated room, i was seeing the self charging during the summer and now thats its winter i really don't see it.

Remember that heat is radiant energy and being able to use that ambient radiant energy is very useful.

[NickZ]

   Guys:
   My test have all been done in a room of about 86 degree temp.  Temperatures here on the coast of Costa Rica don't change by more than 5 degrees, (thank God). Sorry, for the guys with frozen toilets, or frozen Captrets.
   Ibe:  your first Captret video shows that the led was just barely lit, after a week.   This is normally due to the voltage (the REAL voltage)  going down over time.   Why then, does the Captret get brighter by just adding a couple more volts to it, when it's dim? If there is already enough voltage in the batteries for the led to be bright enough as it is?  The batteries may not have much Real solid charge left after some time, only part of what is being shown by the meter, but not enough to make the led light bright, or at least like when it started.  This can also be due to something else, but your "crowded room" idea does not make sense to me, as the led acts as an "open door" keeping the flow going, not stagnant.
   As mentioned before the cap is converting Aether, kinda like what a solar panel does with light, and Aether can't be seen nor measured.

  Try two or more leds, on a Captret, I'll bet that they will not light, (really light up), not barely lit, for even one day. The battery and meter may not SHOW a change, but there is...
   I feel the same thing happens with the Joule Ringer, as it consumes more that it can produce for itself, and goes out.  Lidmotor says that you have to pay for it, (a bright light).  What happened to the original  CFL lights running time of 40 minutes?  Now it's down to less than 5 minutes.  Is this the "real beef"?  Or did nobody pay for it...
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