Donald Smith Devices too good to be true

[Solarlab]

tswift

Few are blessed with the "Curse of the Ever Curious!"
The world is lucky that guys like you exist... they won't say thanks...
but we will ***** #great work

[tswift]

Some people's idea of fun on a Saturday night: dinner and a movie.

My idea of fun on a Saturday night: hand-soldering an SSTC driver prototype board.



That's about as simple as a true SSTC can get, almost as simple as a slayer exciter. It's a half-bridge of two IRF540 MOSFET's driven by a TI UCC37325 chip. Feedback is by current transformer, which connects to the terminal block so you can easily swap the polarity if it's wrong. Testing coming soon....

[Solarlab]

F.Y.I.

Here's an older video that directly relates to "E = mc^2."
You might find it interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0BOpiMQXQA

An accompanying post from April 2016 that outlines, to some extent,
a very preliminary postulation that is still under study; and consideration.
Development is progressing, all be it quite slowly and it has changed to
some extent over time.

Kapanadze Cousin - DALLY FREE ENERGY

Several other posts, over a period of time, on this thread provide a
bit more background.

Kapanadze Cousin - DALLY FREE ENERGY

FIN

[med.3012]

Increase matter, then we increase energy!

Dwane

understanding permanent magnet is The key to Don Smith device, we can't increase matter through proper earth grounding which is important also , take this simple drawing about how permanent magnet work, similar idea of John bedini .



in order to receive aether energy you need to send energy to it ! between the two phase send/receive you have a useful power , earthing in Tesla wireless system was very important because he used the earth as a capacitive ball, in other words his system resonate the whole globe , he put the power in place A and the earth give the same power ( maybe more ) to place B, this is why he was able to send any amount of power to any distance,

Don System is a bit different and more advanced , instead of sending wireless power why not duplicate it locally ? Tesla wireless system is very effective with no loss , your situation is correct when we deal with atomic power :



the above equation is achieved if we could divide the atom for example ( the case of atomic bomb ), Don solution is quiet simple and safe , why no to divide the electrons pair based on spin the same as permanent magnet, we need to send energy in order to receive it , so we could store radiant energy , the device have to have the ability to polarize the environment, another vital requirement is one zone interaction ( Bloch wall for example )

when these requirement is achieved earthing will be an enhancement to the system , moderate earth ground can be part of strong Over energy device .

[Dwane]

Hi Tswift,
Great job! Yep, those old radiator's can be difficult to solder to.
I liked your analysis of the earth connection. Worth remembering.

On a different note. It occurs to me that Don's secret was about utilising Tesla's Aether theory. That is, extraction of the charge carriers in the Aether medium. If so, well then I might understand a bit better what he was up to an his use of resonance.

Tesla states " There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.” If this is true, would it challenge the notion that energy can neither be created or destroyed. Increase matter, then we increase energy! Energy within the "environment" would not be constant.
Regards

Dwane

[med.3012]

The Point =>

Referencing the book: RF Circuit Design by Chris Bowick, published 1982:

https://archive.org/details/RFCircuitDesign

Recalling a quote from page 13:

"It is often said in the engineering world that anyone can
design something and make it work once, but it takes
a good designer to develop a unit that can be produced
in quantity and still operate as it should in different
temperature environments."

Delete "temperature" in the above and you have a "more" general statement.

As is often [most always] seen in the "free energy" device arena;
- here is my youtube, and maybe a forum discussion of my apparatus,
now everyone {blindly?} go forth and replicate it [given little or no
technical data, except possibly the number of coil turns, FET type,
and a few lit light bulbs], thus {falsely?} proving the concept and theory.

It's a long journey between "fireworks" and "putting a person on the moon!"

The devil is in the [technical] details... a clear and deep understanding of the
complex problem, compiled from {millions?} of inter-related technical details - each
one being a single discovery!

Tesla - my view - great inventor (fully functional brain!) and experimental
physicist; but short on leaving any technical or mathematical detail. Time frame wise
that's understandable although Maxwell, Hertz and others had mathematically
developed theories prior to, and within, the same period.

Making "it" public - conceding that the "human effort" is controlled by a few;
with the availability of the internet and many other avenues of disclosure (media,
publications, contests, etc.); "one keypress" and it's out there, every where, literally
at the speed of light!

Thanks to Everyone for their [technical most of all] contributions...

FIN

i agree with you.

[tswift]

OK, thanks for letting me know! I thought I had found a third-party hosting service that would work for the pictures. I can post them through the forum software, but that only works for logged-in users as well as takes up some of the limited space allocation on the forum server.

Here are the six pictures from the last post.

[RAMSET]

Just an observation

Tswift
I see that your images are not viewable unless signed in to the forum.[and apparently even when signed in ?? NYC area USA ..just tiny black boxes with an X]

I see some pics can be seen and some not ?

just an observation , not a critique .

there is plenty of interest !!

with gratitude and respect
Chet K

ps
there will be no more interruptions from me.

[tswift]

Yes, I agree with everything you wrote. Meanwhile, here's the latest progress on the nuts-and-bolts of the project. The ground plate is installed now, here's the process I went through.

First I tried to solder the big braided cable to the copper loops of the radiator. This was unsuccessful and resulted in nothing but frustration. I have considerable experience with electrical soldering but a lot less with plumbing and using a propane torch. Maybe someone with more experience could have done this successfully, but I quickly realized that I wasn't going to get good results this way. Instead I used the aluminum flange of the radiator and fabricated a cable clamp to tie the ground braid to.



Next was the ground enhancement mix. I had a significant amount of chemicals left over from some years back when I dug a deep hole for a ground rod, so I just used all of what I had left. This is two 40-pound bags of pelletized gypsum and about 35-40 pounds of fine granulated sodium sulfate that was left in the bag.



Installed in the hole it all looked like this. First a few shovelfuls of the ground enhancement mix to kind of level the bottom, then the ground plate (conveniently my clamp arrangement was strong enough to use for lowering it), then the rest of the enhancement mix on top of and around before backfilling.



I wet all this down with a hose and put the (mostly clay) topsoil in the hole first, hoping the clay content will also help to retain moisture. Then another sprinkle with the hose. Then I started shoveling in the remaining material, trying to get mostly the finer stuff without any big rocks. Then another dousing with the hose. Then, once the ground plate was well covered and protected from damage, I used my compact tractor with front loader to scoop and dump the remaining material, pausing every few loads to wet it down. This is what it looks like now, I'll do a little finish leveling by hand but I want to leave it concave so it will trap water with every rain and stay moist underneath. You can see that not all of the excavated material packed back in the hole, so now it's looser with some porosity to it than it was originally. This should act kind of like a french drain and allow surface moisture to percolate down to the ground plate area, at least that's my hope.



Ok, so after going to all that work how did we do? I wanted to measure the resistance between the building ground rod and the new ground plate. I checked and there was a slight voltage difference between the two, no doubt due to electrochemical action. However, this means that a regular voltmeter resistance reading won't give a true answer. A better solution is just to hook up a battery between the two connections and simultaneously measure the voltage and current. Using a small gel cell, I measured 12.55V and .201A, for a calculated resistance of about 62 ohms. Considering that the building ground is just a standard 8 foot round rod of about 1/2" diameter, it seems logical to suppose that the majority of the resistance is happening on that end of the connection. If this is the case, then the true resistance to ground for my plate is perhaps 10-20 ohms? Without better measurements I'm just guessing, but it seems like a fairly low resistance considering the difficult soil conditions I have to work with here. So at first glance it seems like all this trouble (and some expense) was probably worth it. I now have a good quality, low resistance (and low impedance) RF ground for tying experiments to. Now I can get back to experimenting to see if I can get better results!

[RAMSET]

sorry for the intrusion

I believe I had read here about some ground enhancement attempts

yesterday in Speaking with Member gotoluc he mentioned an experiment he was preparing for [Benitez] and the importance of ground.
he has acquired a ground tester for the Lab he volunteers at .

the method he is using requires charcoal... salt and water
along with a grounding rod.
once we get these grounds to the quality they should be ??

It is hoped a method to cheaply check this ground quality will be developed
and then shared at the different builders threads at all the forums

I had shared this info today with a fellow who experiments on Tariel kapanadze
thread at OU.com and he mentioned Tswift here and his big grounding project.
I asked Luc for a Video for reference [coming soon]

Thanks for all you do here.

respectfully
Chet K

[Dwane]

You make a very good point, and I agree with you. This has been the nature of progress so far in this field: the occasional researcher here and there stumbles across something clearly anomalous, but either has trouble reproducing it themselves or other people can't make it work. Or for selfish reasons they won't share the details. Or the device works at some times and places but not others. What we very clearly DON'T have, is a reproducible design that works anywhere, all the time, for everyone, with clear and complete instructions on how to build it. If we can accomplish this, we will change the world and I think most people here know it. This is what I'm working toward.

So valid. Personally, I think some of the issue is the irregularity of components used, availability of some components used in "older" claims and suspect results to verify the particular claims.

I suppose the simplest evidence of a working prototype we have available is that of John Bedini's SG. Many people have been able to understand and see what is going on. And, the design he finalised was nuts and bolts and easy to see what had to be done to replicate. Also, there was a large community of avid builders replicating and innovating the design. In itself a moderate success story. But, where is it now? A lot of lessons were offered and learned. However, I suspect that the reduced response to building this unit now is that the development has stopped. People do not know where next to go. For those, with large battery banks and off grid systems the SG works.

Miniaturising the SG concept to increase the power content to that of the output of say Don Smith, might be seen as an insurmountable challenge for many. It is also unknown territory and very difficult, without much sophisticated measuring equipment, to actually see what is going on: assuming that a working example is available! Components, at high voltages and possible high currents, become very expensive for experimenters' who might not have a very clear picture of where they are heading and likely to finish up.

Anyway, we persevere, that is the nature of us. We seek to understand so that we can control that which we can use, so all may be able to share the experience.

Regards

Dwane

[Dwane]

Laminations

Hi TSwift,

Thanks for the reply. It is going to be be quicker and cheaper for me to get some laminations and wind a few coils. No-one here stocks Metglass, so I would have to import one. The question begging is which one?

I picked up the Spirit of Salts trick for copper from a plumber friend some years back when I was involved with a restoration job. Cleans copper back to the "pinkish" look.

Regards

Dwane

[tswift]

I have a question regarding grain oriented steel. Where it can favour flux efficiencies. When winding coils for cold energy, e.g. BEMF, to be used with grain oriented steel laminations, will the grain orientation affect the outputs that we might be looking for? I suppose I am concerned that there might be a negative affect.

I don't think it will make any difference. Just like with Metglas, it could be useful in some designs because of its properties, but by itself it isn't going to either cause or hinder the effect we're looking for. The one time I saw the overunity gain manifest, it was in my PVM12 high voltage power supply, which has a ferrite core HV transformer. Many of Don's designs used an off-the-shelf inverter, which might have any of a number of different transformer cores depending on the brand and model. If you start off with pure enough cold electricity, it's going to produce an overunity gain regardless of the type of transformer you put it through, at least that's what my research so far points to. Of course, the only way to know for sure will be to actually TRY it and measure the results, which I intend to do as soon as possible....

[tswift]

The Point =>

Recalling a quote from page 13:

"It is often said in the engineering world that anyone can
design something and make it work once, but it takes
a good designer to develop a unit that can be produced
in quantity and still operate as it should in different
temperature environments."

You make a very good point, and I agree with you. This has been the nature of progress so far in this field: the occasional researcher here and there stumbles across something clearly anomalous, but either has trouble reproducing it themselves or other people can't make it work. Or for selfish reasons they won't share the details. Or the device works at some times and places but not others. What we very clearly DON'T have, is a reproducible design that works anywhere, all the time, for everyone, with clear and complete instructions on how to build it. If we can accomplish this, we will change the world and I think most people here know it. This is what I'm working toward.

I continue to work on the Don Smith style technology because I think it's the best bet to achieve this goal. Don's designs were in many cases stunningly simple and if we can figure out how to make them work, they are not expensive to build (compared to some other historical examples of probable overunity technologies). I know that Don was on to something, because I saw it work myself, if only for about a minute. But it's enough for me know that radiant energy is real, and does indeed lead to COP>1 gain, and can be produced with relatively simple apparatus under the right circumstances. I don't doubt I could repeat the same test I did before and it would give me the same results, but what is really needed is something that can run continuously like Don's designs.

[Dwane]

Hi Tswift,
.....
I need to structure my approach to this topic in a more systematic manner.

Regards

Dwane

Actually, I was referring to cleaning up my bench and have separate ares for individual projects. Rather than hotch pot across the bench looking at crossed wires!

Regards

Dwane