Let's get Slider (aka Mark Vaughan) a nice 4-channel DSO with math functions!

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This is a repost from Overunityresearch forum

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Slider, aka Mark Vaughan, has been BUILDING and inventing devices for years. A strong open-source proponent, he presents his results on the forums and in videos. No salary, just a service to mankind. Afro

Chet Kremens and I feel its time we help him out just a bit with some test equipment -- here goes. Please consider a donation today -- I will chip in $50. Who will join us?

See:
Let's get Mark Vaughan (Slider) a fine 4ch DSO w/V(t)*I(t) ! | Volunteer & Service Projects - YouCaring

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For a mere $399, we can buy our friend/researcher a nice Rigol DS1054Z 50 MHz Digital Oscilloscope with 4 channels plus 12 Mpt memory, 1 GS/s sampling - with Math Functions!
By measuring voltage and current in separate channels, he will be able to multiply to get the power waveforms =
P(t) = V(t)*I(t) . Analyzing power in and power out is critical in this alternative-energy research.

Mark is well known for his alt-energy projects and videos and for frequent contributions on overunityresearch.com, overunity.com and EnergeticForum.com .

Here's a brief message from Mark:


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""Hi, my name is Mark, you probably know me as Slider2732 around the web and especially on YouTube.

The Playlist called 'Sliders Ideas' forms a good introduction to the low energy project builds that have formed an intense research study over the past 5 years -https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-VrIx_FsZCIPf_vxqKww6g5tAo7FRGmI

My intentions, are to further concepts that bring forward harvested energy and ultra low power usage devices for use in practical ways.
One thing you may have wondered about within those projects and have never seen are scope shots !

There's a good reason for that and why my good friends Steve and Chet have set up this funding challenge.

With your help and perhaps to answer your own future questions or curiosities about the waveforms of devices shown on YouTube, this fundraiser is for a Rigol DS1054Z Digital Oscilloscope.
Rigol DS1054Z Digital Oscilloscopes - Bandwidth: 50 Mhz, Channels: 4, Sampling Rate: 1 GS/S | TEquipment.NET

It is also my intention, that if funding surpasses the sum needed, Steve and Chet can place that money toward equipment needed by other researchers.
Thank you for your support in advance, for considering a donation toward this goal"

Note that there is a charge of about 3% for credit-card use, for donations direct to this site. (This is common for credit cards, they charge a fee.) If you use check or PayPal (specify "gift"), then there is no charge. Contributions by check pls to: Steven E. Jones, 201 E. Clay St., Albany, MO 64402; OR PayPal to email Profsjones@gmail.com

100% of such "off-line" donations will be recorded at the YouCaring site so you can look and be assured that your donation "made it" to the intended goal of getting the 4ch DSO for our colleague Mark.


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Let's get Slider (aka Mark Vaughan) a nice 4-channel DSO with math functions!
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Just dropping in to thank Steve and Chet for setting up this fundraiser...plus Matt [DogOne] and the person from Europe.
Quite the start !

I agree with the question of what would it be used for right away.
Short term specific research with the scope would be directed to energy harvesting. RF sources, such as radio, house mains, WiFi and Smartmeter emissions that permeate the house, need to be matched with receiving circuits. There is a need to know what is happening where, how circuit changes impact results, to demonstrate with provable data.
I know right now that a Dickson multiplier is not as effective for CFL bulb emissions collections as the circuit popularised by Inventor3 on YouTube..but why ? what is it doing ? how can it be improved ? what is happening to the 60Hz feed ? is there only 60Hz within the input to the circuit ?
One big drive is to run small circuits that remove electrosmog (now a fave term - thanks TK). Charge batteries with it, remove the need for batteries in TV remotes, run wall clocks, supply tick-over current to microcontrollers for home security sensors and for other practical uses.
Scope shots themselves go a long way to proving out anything demonstrated, any device standing a much better chance of being replicated and then become widely useful to others.

Included near term research includes the furtherment of low input wireless electricity systems for energy transfer within the home. The 'Centurion' tank circuit wireless energy system will run from an upside down solar garden light solar cell on the workbench. But what is the system doing ? what and where are the peak and minimum energies ?, what does the waveform look like ?
Also, if The Internet of Things (IoT) is to come about as a positive, then in my opinion, it has to be as widely Open Sourced as possible. Our own systems and our own research can deliver trusted integrations and solutions.

On the subject of Crystal batteries, they have been a strong interest for a few years. Anyone interested could try a great introduction rechargeable cell capable of 70mA when solar charged, in the form of C/Pb. A washed Carbon electrode from a depleted 'D' 1.5V battery, slice of lead from a junk car battery (negative plate) or car wheel weight, electrolyte is rain water and Alum. Output is always 0.8V at several hundred uA even after a year of non charging and it will run an LED blocking oscillator 24/7, for example. Mine is a couple of years old now, always in use to the point of forgetting about it and shows no degradation of either electrode...there's no sacrificial metal on the positive !


You could say, the scope of my own research would be greatly expanded

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thanks for looking

Chet

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Wow! the donations stand now at $375, out of $399 needed to purchase the 4-channel scope for Slider! (All contributed in about 13 hours!)

@all: There is still a small window of opportunity to contribute, if YOU wish to do so.

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Nice! a donor who wishes to remain Anonymous donates $50 for Slider's scope!
Over the top - as donations reach $425, exceeding the goal actually.

Its still Friday here, so goal reached in one day, in about 14 hours.
Thanks, everyone!
Shows what we can do as a community of friends and fellow researchers!

[boguslaw]

Man,I would like to have any tool to measure ESR of capacitor and inductance of coil
Is this a good tool ? MEGA328 Transistor Tester Diode Triode Capacitance ESR Meter mos PNP NPN L C R | eBay

My general need is to estimate resistance and inductance of LC circuit then everything should be possible I think. Even running a fridge on coin type 3V battery

[Dfortune]

Works for me

Man,I would like to have any tool to measure ESR of capacitor and inductance of coil
Is this a good tool ? MEGA328 Transistor Tester Diode Triode Capacitance ESR Meter mos PNP NPN L C R | eBay

My general need is to estimate resistance and inductance of LC circuit then everything should be possible I think. Even running a fridge on coin type 3V battery

I have one ,used it to check capacitors (3300-4700uf) in a power supply and also for transistor of various types.Found it very practical for it size and versatility.You will want to use a chart to check ESR values for capacitors, google it.


Good luck

[boguslaw]

Dfortune

Thanks ! did you check how acurate is this tool ?

[Dfortune]

Just did a few test on it and checks out to be as accurate as my meter (4000 count)Capacitance and resistance wise.As for inductance I can't tell, no inductance meter.

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Boguslaw
Running a fridge on a watch battery

Some day my friend...... someday

Thx
Chet