Energy from the Ground - Self powered generator by Barbosa and Leal

[MileHigh]

Here is Clarence's simplified schematic diagram slightly annotated and with the missing "dots" added.  The dots are arranged to create maximum current in the captor secondary.

[MileHigh]

From the Energetic Forum:

Wistiti:

Do you think we can use capacitor insted of battery?? It may have a longer lifespan...

Clarence:

my experience is just to use the Captor output to power the charger and let it keep the battery at a constant top voltage charge and keep the whole system operating continually and use it.

So, from Clarence we have a definitive statement that the captor is a device that outputs power, and that powers the battery charger.

I am going to upload the schematic again.

Clarence, or anybody, using the schematic, please show how the captor outputs power to the battery charger.  Feel free to annotate the schematic if this helps your explanation and explain how it happens based on the circuit as shown in the simplified schematic.

Show how power output by the captor drives the battery charger.  Show the current loop and the voltage or current source going to the two inputs of the battery charger.

See the second attachment.  It's a diagram showing a theoretical connection between the captor and the battery charger.  Please show where this exists on Clarence's simplified block diagram.

MileHigh

[picowatt]

Is this applicable only to locales using SWER?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-wire_earth_return

[MileHigh]

Picowatt:

You read my mind.  I was just whipping up a "drawing for the drawing challenged" about that issue.

To All:

Have a look at the attached diagram.  The voltages in the ground due to a SWER system or due to telluric currents are on the order of microvolts per meter (or something comparable to that).  Telluric currents are intermittent and change direction very slowly.  So how could putting a bunch of ground rods in your backyard be of any benefit in terms of picking up power from the ground alone?

MileHigh

[mscoffman]

MileHigh,

I wrote the text down myself today and last night.

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Of course something as elegant as this device is, started me thinking right at the beginning.

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Note.. Obviously if you remove the "flying leads" one has a one-to-n -> n-to-one
120V isolation transformer which must be how the inverter voltage imposes its "will" on the
output and the self running loop. So the whole other part of the captor's behavior (the profit motive)
must consist of interaction of the electronics associated with the "flying leads".

OK...technically this circuit is called a "mixer", a multiplier. I bet if you read up on balanced mixers
in electronics or "ARRL" ham radio you may find a discussion of the rest of this device. It's tricky
because the "phase","time delay", and what-drives-what is critical.

Also you may be able to actually simulate the action of this circuit in ecap or whatever. That little
"bulb coil" must be a distributed LC function. It seems surprising the amount of functionality that
small thing has...but you've got to watch the small ones.

Please explain this circuit online, here when you understand its function fully.


.S.MarkSCoffman