Selfrunning cold electricity circuit from Dr.Stiffler

[DrStiffler]

If anyone gets bored a great party trick would be to melt your Neons.

[k4zep]

Food for thought, strictly Hypothetical.....

Many years back Dr. Harold Aspden published a paper on obtaining energy with cylindrical capacitors, resonant circuit and a high voltage for initial excitation; a starting point with the current idea is http://www.aspden.org.uk/3.html

Take a look at both his very first circuit (without the multiple ring capacitor) and the current circuit, it takes little in imagination to wonder what would happen if one were to drive such a circuit with an AV Plug. Better yet forget AC as in SEC and drive it with DC into an impedance followed by a AV Plug set of diodes and the capture circuit.

Am I the only one that sees something similar?

Time to pull out the hundreds of dollars of copper cylinders and take a quick look, maybe.

Anyone wish to comment that may have followed this???

I have followed since I discovered it a few years ago, tried it DC, no joy, BUT AC as you are doing in a 1/2 wave model with the plug taking out the energy is interesting theory!  I would suggest that Copper cylinders are probably not absolutely necessary for the device to work.

Ben

[Loki67671]

Dr Stiffler,
I quote Harold Aspden;
Harold Aspden, 26th June 2007
"However, if that electron flow pulsates and there are connections to draw electron current from that central electrode then the pulsation implies a recurring sequence of charge and discharge. That 'magic capacitor' function is then harnessed."
Are you showing us a possible example of Harold's above reference given that the diodes are also capacitors? Diodes are highly nonlinear correct? Hmmmmm? I've seen some strange things in radio front ends with pin diodes. Never looked much further than restoring the circuit to design specifications though. Shame on me. Fundamentally your circuits and Aspdens' examples are very similar, aside from the fact that you are energizing open inductors, which certainly raises eyebrows even to the uninitiated, but is a relatively common practice in radio and then a complete diode loop containing the load LED's which just leaves folks with a blank stare and comment. " If that works, I want to see it!" Unfortunately for me I'm not quite sure how to write all of my loop equations for some of the circuit ? The similarities in fig's 1 and 2 of lecture #27 to the present circuits are noted and I will have to study them in depth as time permits.
Am I any where near on target or completely nuts?? The EE's I spoke of are waiting for me to demo this to them, just like I said. Parts on order payday Neat stuff!

Nice Work Doc...................Jim

[Gustav22]

Hello Dr. Stiffler,
in a previous post I had posted some questions, but did only now realize, that I had not understood the circuit layout presented in video 9.75.
I had thought the SEC Exciter is connected to the coil and the copper screen cylinder acts as a energy pickup/converter of the secondary, i.e. as pickup for the "AV branch".
I do now realize that it is in fact the other way round:

The copper screen cylinder is part of the The SEC Exciter and the antenna coil acts as a pickup, seemingly reacting to  electrostatic/capacitive disturbance in space, "transforming" this disturbance to a current flow in the secondary (i.e. AV-plug).

I hope I got this right.

It would be interesting to know, whether it is possible to place an additional antenna coil (with a larger core-diameter) around the outside of the copper screen cylinder.
I envisage an arrangement, where the copper screen cylinder is sandwiched between two coaxial coils, i.e sandwiched between the inner coil (which you have already in place) and an outer one (which would have to be added).

I wonder whether it would be possible, to successfully attach secondary circuitry including a load to such an additional pickup, without causing dampening of the effect on the first.
Maybe by discharging both pickups simultaneously !?

However, in the meantime you seemingly found a more efficient way to "melt your neons".
Without the Sidac !?
Congratulations.
How did you do it?

[DrStiffler]

Dr Stiffler,
I quote Harold Aspden;
Harold Aspden, 26th June 2007
"However, if that electron flow pulsates and there are connections to draw electron current from that central electrode then the pulsation implies a recurring sequence of charge and discharge. That 'magic capacitor' function is then harnessed."
Are you showing us a possible example of Harold's above reference given that the diodes are also capacitors? Diodes are highly nonlinear correct? Hmmmmm? I've seen some strange things in radio front ends with pin diodes. Never looked much further than restoring the circuit to design specifications though. Shame on me. Fundamentally your circuits and Aspdens' examples are very similar, aside from the fact that you are energizing open inductors, which certainly raises eyebrows even to the uninitiated, but is a relatively common practice in radio and then a complete diode loop containing the load LED's which just leaves folks with a blank stare and comment. " If that works, I want to see it!" Unfortunately for me I'm not quite sure how to write all of my loop equations for some of the circuit ? The similarities in fig's 1 and 2 of lecture #27 to the present circuits are noted and I will have to study them in depth as time permits.
Am I any where near on target or completely nuts?? The EE's I spoke of are waiting for me to demo this to them, just like I said. Parts on order payday Neat stuff!

Nice Work Doc...................Jim

My work was/is not intended to be what Dr. Aspden wrote about, but I have followed him  for some years and did set out to try his capacitor idea and did order a couple hundred dollars worth of copper to do it. About the time I was setting up he published a paper that the two plate idea 'did not' work. (can no longer find that paper) if I remember right he said that it would require over 100kv to work and that was not practical. Then the multi plate version appeared. If my work is in some subliminal way what he is talking about of course is open to discussion.

The latest circuit is what will be submitted to an independent lab for testing. Have been putting this off until I was happy and feltfor sure results would be positive.

Please build and show it off, will get good an many bad reactions as you can tell from this thread.