Method for converting HV (static) into usable low-voltage power.

[hoptoad]

tested:

http://www.hcrs.at/KAPTRAFO.HTM

I wish I could read/speak German, because your apparatus looks interesting and elegant!

Cheers

[wings]

tested:

http://www.hcrs.at/KAPTRAFO.HTM

not by me, tray translation by google:


http://translate.google.it/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hcrs.at%2FKAPTRAFO.HTM&sl=de&tl=en&hl=it&ie=UTF-8

[wings]

not by me, tray translation by google:


http://translate.google.it/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hcrs.at%2FKAPTRAFO.HTM&sl=de&tl=en&hl=it&ie=UTF-8

translation

[mscoffman]

The real Testatika machine is interesting in that the voltage
on the Wimhurst disk is collected via capacitive plates rather
than brushes. This gets rid of the brushes tendancy to
wear-out over time. A sequence of operational steps is required to do
this though. One could call the Testatika an AC Wimhurst machine.
The testatika machine then runs the power through what would be
called a single tube RF power oscillator with a resonant transformer
containing step down taps. This allows the final waveform steps to be
synthesised from the taps. What the testatika machine is doing is
trying to keep part of the disk's voltage high, so it can help recruit
additional charge from its surrounding environment while still suppling
large amounts of power to be stepped down. The moving voltage
components on the disk are designed to help level out HV discharge
wear on the disk. As a byproduct of the above the final voltage
waveform is lower than it would otherwise would be if the electricity
was taken directly as static.

So using an inverse Tesla Coil as a step down method is valid.
The spark gap of a standard tesla coil generates RF just like
an RF oscillator. Another name for a Tesla coil is an RF step up
transformer.

An amature-radio RF final amplifier is a relatively simple one
tube power circuit, and in it's maximum incantation, has an
output power similar to a testatika machine. The capacitive
coupling of the winhurst machine would keep the plate voltage
from going into the 10KV range where one begins to have to
be concerned about generating x-radiation. The principal reason
for using RF voltage step down - only a few turns of low mass copper
pipe can be used to form the step down transformer that would
require a certain amount of iron in a LF AC operation otherwise.

So do I think the testatika worked, the overunity energy gain
is produced by the free electron method by the wimhurst machine.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[Paul-R]

Tesla had his Patent 577671, described at:
htp://www.free-energy-info.co.uk/Chapter7.pdf
Yes, the capacitor has to be a good one.