High Voltage from Thin Air?

[amigo]

I finally made the sec with aircores and it works much better, thanks for the tip Dr. Stiffler. I still have a bit a refining to do, as I'm working blind without the inductance meter. I do have a thermometer and will try and put up some readings. At first I started out with no current, but I could light the fluorescent bulbs wireless off L3, but no current for the incandescent. After a making more coils it finally lit up, and felt much stronger than the sec 15-3 board.

YouTube - SEC 15-3 popcorn sphere #2


Another interesting thing. If you position the sphere over a couple 40w fl's and place the aluminum block about 4-5 inches above it connected to earth ground, you get some pretty dam good brightness..input ~1.8w (18v - 0.10a)

Ah, my Deus Ex friend, welcome aboard !

That image looks pretty impressive - I can't get one of those large FLs to light up on my "popcorn"...

As slayer007 noticed, you are not using a ferrite core for your Lb, it's an air core yet it's tuned so well, what's the secret (you said you did not have a LCR meter)?

[amigo]

Those Sun Spots seem to be effecting more than just YT...
The domain "drstiffler.com" is parked

Looking at Internet Archive Wayback Machine
gives

Also www.stifflerscientific.com though it seems Doc had turned his computer off or stopped the web server...

[DrStiffler]

@DrStiffler,

I can't find that last video on YT, but your other videos appear to be there:

YouTube - MRH2O2's Channel

Could you please re-upload the last video?

@amigo

I tried three time and gave up, I even changed the file name and tags so it would not know. I deleted the one that was there which for some reason took multiple tries. Seems it was only being seen if you were on a channel or had the url. I am beginning to think the sound had something to do with it, their software may have rejected it thinking it was music or something.

I'll get it back up, but will have to cut audio for it, which doesn't make a lot of sense.

Yes, I think my vids are all back, but for a time they were coming and going, very strange day for YT.

[slayer007]

More fun with the popcorn ball.
This time I attached a 4400 MF capacitor to the bottom part of the popcorn ball.
One wire comming off the bottom of the popcorn ball going to two switching diodes going to the capacitor.
The top part is attached to the SEC and its running at 12v.

Heres a video of it.

YouTube - SEC With Capacitor

[amigo]

Spatial Light

Ok so I see everyone's playing around with variations so I figured why the heck not.

I recalled how we started all this and that Dr. Stiffler's SEC did not use an air coil but a choke.

So, does air coil matter I asked myself?

The answer would seem to be no. But does SGate matter? Again, it seems not...

PSU ~10V @ ~40mA; no air coils - all chokes; no real SGate - replaced by capacitors.



What does "mass" have to do with it?

In case of AV plug and DC voltage - once again it appears mass has nothing to do with it.

By the way, I have deliberately used a standard daylight short exposure so you can see the amount of illumination, thus the grainy-ness in the photos.

Oh yeah, that's 40 white LEDs of 50,000mcd each.

[Jules Tresor]

@slayer007
Thanks for the great video with a large capacitor charging quite fast from the SEC. Please could you draw a circuit with the capacitor connexions because I don't see where the second wire is going ?!?
Great job as usual, a real improvement to charge caps
and thanks for sharing,
MDG

[slayer007]

@slayer007
Thanks for the great video with a large capacitor charging quite fast from the SEC. Please could you draw a circuit with the capacitor connexions because I don't see where the second wire is going ?!?
Great job as usual, a real improvement to charge caps
and thanks for sharing,
MDG

Thanks Stephenafreter

It's just one wire connected to the foil on the bottom half of the popcorn ball.
The one wire goes to two switching diodes.
One diode faces one way and other faces the other way.
That makes a + and - you can connect to a capacitor.
The diodes I'm using are two 1N4148.

If you need me to draw a circuit I can.

[Jules Tresor]

Thanks for your reply slayer007, I think I understand now

One wire comes from the alu ball and goes to an AV plug; then the two ends of the diodes of the AV plug are connected to the plots of the cap.

The two crocodile clips (1 yellow and 1 red) we can see connected to the cap are just going to the voltmeter to read the voltage.

Ok, it's clear for me now
but of course a small diagram would be useful for new readers ... 1 picture is worth 1000 words; especially there because it's a very important point, to charge caps from a SEC

Thanks for sharing and thanks God for sending great experimenters like you !

See what can do a little light in educating the world:
YouTube - GOOD: Kinkajou Projector
(Thanks to MIT students that came up with this design. But they still have a battery problem to supply the power ... they need Cold Electricity !)
MDG

[amigo]

No SGate AC with a Load

Since I'm on a roll now...



The neon is VERY bright, it's killing the brightness of the load...

Sorry about the blurry photo, camera did a slightly longer exposure.

[amigo]

Back to the sec, in the drawer of the desk that I work with the sec on, I placed some half dead batteries in there about half a year ago. These are all duracell AA and 1 duracell c cell. I checked the voltage on them, and 9 of 10 are at 1.60 volts exactly. So I guess the sec has been affecting them. I'm not even sure this is useful, but it's interesting.

I am not sure it is the SEC, as I have a dozen or so AAA Duracells and they all appear to be recovering, if voltage is measured. Though I do not see them holding any charge as they do not perform once used in a device.

[Jules Tresor]

@ amigo:
Hello amigo, please could you give the spec of your variable coil on your last picture "No SGate AC with a Load". It's a ready made one, and you showed 3 of them on a previous picture; so it's easy to buy already made, and you get very good power with it, even if it's not aircore !

This good power you get out of the SEC without SGATE might be due to the 'field' of coherence increasing over time ?!?
Could you start that configuration in another place to see if it gives that much power right from the beginning ?
Just a thought.
Thanks for sharing this great experiments
MDG

[Lidmotor]

SEC running a Joule Thief Carger----Wirelessly

@Everyone. I have been working with the energy coming off the SEC into the air and found out yesterday that it would power a Joule Thief charger and fill up a capacitor. I was surprised. I made the video below of it happening.
YouTube - SEC running a JT charger wirelessly


@Dr. Stiffler. You asked earlier if anyone had gotten a shock like sensation off the popcorn ball and I did. It felt like a 'hot needle". Yesterday I felt it again off several places in the circuit encluding a wire that I had coming off the transistor collector. It is indeed a "hot" thing and not a shock. I felt the burning sensation after I took my finger away. Could this be a plasma event? Or RF? It isn't a shock.

@Mutten. I tried a smaller hand wound coil for L1 and it worked great. My L3 is now 100turns of 26 ga around a small FL as a form. L2 is exactly like yours and works great. I put a copper heat sink on the little transistor and that has the heat issue under control. The system now runs on 12 volt very well.

Cheers,

Lidmotor

[amigo]

@ amigo:
Hello amigo, please could you give the spec of your variable coil on your last picture "No SGate AC with a Load". It's a ready made one, and you showed 3 of them on a previous picture; so it's easy to buy already made, and you get very good power with it, even if it's not aircore !

This good power you get out of the SEC without SGATE might be due to the 'field' of coherence increasing over time ?!?
Could you start that configuration in another place to see if it gives that much power right from the beginning ?
Just a thought.
Thanks for sharing this great experiments
MDG

Hi,

This is a standard Dr.Stiffler circuit: MPSA06 (probably does not need the heat sink, since it's going at ~50mA), 1Mohm on the Collector-Base, 470pf and ~1.72uH for the Base LC.

The adjustable coil is a standard form with a ferrite core I found at a local electronics store. Almost any such store would carry something similar, just wind a dozen turns of AWG 24 and see where that takes you.

Coil at the top is L2 = 7.34uH, and to the left L3 = 23.4uH. The incandescent bulb is a small 120V 4W ~400ohm resistance.

Ground is a length of wire about dozen feet or so coiled under my table - in absence of real Earth ground, or due to my laziness to go hook it up to a water pipe in the bathroom (I noticed it makes no difference so why bother ).

EDIT: SGate is replaced by capacitors (20pF each end, actually 4x10pF - did not have 18pF).

Anything else, just let me know...

[slayer007]

Lidmotor Great video running your JT wireless.
I thought I would try that today.
I couldn't get enought power out of the JT to run a cfl.
It would light up a little but it was very hard to see so I just used a led.

Here is a video of it.

YouTube - Joule Thief Running Of SEC Wireless

[Lidmotor]

Solar powered SEC

I got the SEC to run today on a 2watt 12volt solar panel. It was drawing 80 millamps when I made this video while powering three FLs, a small fan, a joule thief, and 8 leds. Five of the leds and the joule thef were being powered wirelessly. Wow! What a circuit Dr. S. Just "highly efficient"---I don't think so. Somebody do the numbers on this one.

YouTube - Solar Powered SEC

Lidmotor