I tried to rebiuld a Don Smith Device

[havuhung]

Hi energia9,
I think an industrial welding equipment, can find similar applications in TIG arc welding machine. It's high voltage to start the arc initially created for electrode handles TIG arc welding machine.
But here the DC voltage to maintain the arc ~ 70 V

Regards

[energia9]

i see havuhung, but in the tig startup with high voltage follows a huge amount of current.
in this situation there isnt much current so it wont work that way.
testing testing testing.

[Stela]

En espérant qu'un français traduise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2u6EK-cD6g

[dezeinstein]

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

You don't have any capacitors  to tune it to the resonant frequency. You can't just wind a coil and think you'll get power out of it! Look closely at Don's setup. He has 4 of the .1 uF caps connected to it and you can't just use any capacitor. You need to know the frequency of the generator the plasma ball uses. Then you have to test it to ensure the frequency is accurate. After you test it, you will have to test the coil you wound to find the inductance. Then, you will have to enter the frequency and the inductor size into an online resonance calculator and find the results for the capacitor size used. Don't forget to buy capacitors that are able to handle the voltage created by the plasma generator!  Once you figure this out, and you have a voltage output, you aren't done yet because you have to have a voltage output that is manageable. He also uses this energy as an output that could be enhanced. The rest of his circuit modules need to be built to do this. You are basically taking the energy from the plasma ball to output the high voltage and waveform. If you follow his other experiments, one of them uses a plasma tube to disturb ambient enough that it will attract itself to the plates of a capacitor which will be o a 90 degree angle to the tube. He also does this by adding a resonant coil onto a magnetostrictive rod, such as metglas or terfenol D (which is madly expensive). Anyway, he installs a coil , insulated from the rod and it is a resonant coil, meaning he tunes the coil to the resonant frequency of the input generator, which is an NST (neon sign transformer). This takes adding the right sized capacitor and the same I explained before for the coil on top of the plasma ball. You need a frequency meter, an induction meter and capacitors of the correct size, possibly even a bunch of different sizes in the range needed so one could be added at a time to tune it near the frequency needed. I was told by an RF expert that the Q of the circuit, resistance, and the capacitance of the NST's coil and tank circuit will effect the resonant frequency desired, so, it is most likely after you tune the circuit, it won't work because the resonance is .7 to .8 of the original frequency needed due to the interference of the other variables involved in outside components used inside of the NST, outside interference, if you have a core in the coils, they will change things, and of course if you have tried using different wire size, more windings in less space, all of these things will change the inductance of the circuit drastically, therefore moving the resonant frequency from the desired frequency to an undesired one. Just one hertz off will hinder the function and you will get nothing at the output if resonance is not covered within a wider window than you may have. The weakest output from an nst at a pulsed dc with the tinest spark gap WILL give you thousands of watts output. There is nothing fake about Don's circuits. I have tuned one of my replicas so close that when I pulsed the spark gap with one single pulse (I did this in parallel, and I changed th location of L1, favoring the side controlling amperage. I ended up connecting a 120v DJ light to the output after I added 1500 Farads of heavy utility capacitors and blew the dj light up like a bomb, shooting a fireball out of the lamp. That kind of power can't be created by anything normally other than High voltage utility systems. I know this because I work on them for a living. I couldn't get the system to function steadily, however, the power level was there and it was done for a fraction of a second putting out more power than a 13,800 volt utility line with a 200 amp cutout on the circuit. (a cutout is a fuse used on a utility pole). To be quite honest with you, you would have to take your time and read all of Don's documents he has written. Don was bound by contracts as his systems were acquired by an energy firm that stopped him from giving the systems away. I have only seen one of his working devices before and it was a power system on a rack that functioned by utilizing the Casimir Effect, which is a real effect known and confirmed by science. Don used his patience to back engineer these energy devices. He didn't invent most of them, however he paid close attention to the work of Tesla and recommended reading most of his books to get a better understanding how Tesla induced this energy. It wasn't magic, nor is it impossible. Tesla didn't create overunity, he used nature to his advantage and he tried to prove that it wasn't impossible, which it isn't. Tesla's plan was to draw this energy in and transmit it for free. If he didn't draw this energy in for free, he would never been able to afford the electricity to send free power to the city for free. According to Tesla, one transmitter did the same thing radio stations did. The transmitter could reach and power millions and millions of listeners. This was back when the radio needed no battery, you just tuned in and the system powered a headphone. There was no impact on the source. The transmitter used the same power all the time regardless of listeners. Now, radio is amplified on the listener's end to get more output to several speakers.. The old days of battery free radio are over unless you build and tune into am radio yourself with your own inductor, capacitor and few other components, oh, and a one ear mono headphone! Don Smith's systems work the same way, with resonance to build what's called a Phase Conjugate Pump, and they only need a battery to start them if built correctly. They have a feedback loop.. some have a wireless energy source that automatically charges the battery. I built this and it does work perfectly. You need to have more test gear, oscilloscope, know how with RF, and, a whole lot of patience. There is nothing easy about building Don's devices, and, you shouldn't be saying they don't work, especially when they aren't replicated as he shows in his images and in his book.

[dezeinstein]

Hey, iphone or samsung smartphone output is stereo output. We just need an android application that can generate frequencies higher than 20,000 hz.

Best,

The frequency response of most audio amps is usually 18 to 22 khz and no higher. How does one's amp output more than this utilizing an input of a higher frequency? I am stumped by this one!

Dez