Donald Smith Devices too good to be true

[tswift]

Just a quick follow up. I have found an old notebook that belonged to one of my children, has Win 7 loaded. My computers all have 64 bit win 10 pro. Anyway the Transformer01.exe is working. The issue was two fold, would not run on 64bit and unsigned files. Win 10 requires signed files for installed programs.

There is a way to run even old programs on new windows, although it's more complicated. You can download VirtualBox (it's free from Oracle) and install Windows 7 (or any older OS) as a guest OS within your Windows 10 x64 host OS. You'll need an install disk for Windows 7 and a valid license code, just as if you were installing a new machine.

I have located a Metglass core with bobbins. its cross section is 16mm x 45mm. gives me approx 53 watts of power rating for a laminated core. It comes back to my lack of understanding of the difference in power ratings for metglass.

This sounds reasonable, you should be able to just treat it as laminated steel for design purposes. For Metglas 2605SA1, the manufacturer gives the saturation flux density as 1.56T (15,600 gauss), which isn't much different from the silicon steel typically used in 60 Hz power transformer designs. With identical core dimensions and windings, a metglas transformer would have significantly lower core loss (and thus heating) than the laminated steel transformer, so if anything this is probably conservative but should work for an initial design.

Reference:
https://metglas.com/magnetic-materials/

[Dwane]

transformer exe

Just a quick follow up. I have found an old notebook that belonged to one of my children, has Win 7 loaded. My computers all have 64 bit win 10 pro. Anyway the Transformer01.exe is working. The issue was two fold, would not run on 64bit and unsigned files. Win 10 requires signed files for installed programs.

I have located a Metglass core with bobbins. its cross section is 16mm x 45mm. gives me approx 53 watts of power rating for a laminated core. It comes back to my lack of understanding of the difference in power ratings for metglass.

regards

Dwane

[Dwane]

Hello Tswift,

Thank for your reply. I have spent some time looking at transformer calculations, mostly I find talk about ratio up or down. I used to have a small program that calculated the maximum turns and wire size for a given section area. It worked with Windows WP and Win 7. I can't get it to work on Win 8 or 10. MS have changed a lot of the dll's and structure of the files. Maybe I should resurrect an old computer for the oldies programs. There is a bit of the "dark arts" involved with transformer design, I feel. Anyway, really all I have wanted to determine is whether I should treat the Metglass as a laminated design for winding calculations. Have not seen this criteria or association yet. With some ferrites, for example, the whole turns calculation can change. This was my concern. Not designing transformers every day!

I recognise your perseverance and dedication to research. and, yes, R&D can be expensive. Especially if the output is not for commercial gain and just for personal use. You are to be commended.

Regards

Dwane

[tswift]

That's actually a bus bar, it's zinc-plated copper and quite heavy. It will go on the wall inside the shop and serve as a common tie point for grounding experiments. I'm also a ham radio operator and my shop doubles as a ham shack so it will also do double duty as an RF ground for antennas and equipment. The ground plate is the old radiator I showed on the tailgate of my truck a few posts back, that's what will get buried. I still need to do some wire brushing and maybe an acid wash to get it as clean as possible (for a piece of old junk). Then I will make some of the ground enhancement mix using the chemicals I have left from the last time I dug an improved ground, and put that all around the grounding plate before burying it. The disturbed soil should have improved percolation and should get remoistened with every rain, or I can go out with a hose and water it if necessary.

The shop building has a standard 8 foot electrical code ground rod about 20 feet away from where the ground plate will go, so with two independent grounds I can use some measurements and analysis to get an idea of how good my ground is.

And yes, I am fully committed to this project, the project that's taken over my life. I have sacrificed a promising career and now more than one profitable business in order to have the opportunity to do this research. For most of the last ten years now, and almost exclusively for the last five or so, I really have done nothing else. I am either going to figure it out, or I'm going to die trying. Seeing as how I live without health insurance and have a number of health issues, this is not an idle threat. In the past, money has been a major obstacle since as we all know, R&D can be extremely expensive and most of us just have a hobby budget. But I invested in bitcoin early on, and now it's changed my life. I don't have enough money to go blowing it on frivolous stuff, but I can afford to buy what I need for the project now.

On the Don's energy devices. I have been looking at the AmbientenergyGenerator: looks slightly less difficult to my current frustration device. This is the device that uses a large flat isolating platform using a copper sheet, pane of glass and aluminium sheet as backing plate. i have been contemplating the metglass transformer shown.. I have done a bit of research and it seems that High frequency is the name of the game for metglass, although they are supposed to offer excellent results for power transformer at 50/60hz. However, I cannot find any information on winding coils and how one might choose the correct winding strategy. My interest is understanding the difference with say a heavily wound power transformer using laminations and how this might be different to a similar sized power transformer using a metglass core. I thought you might have looked at this and pondered the same question. Or someone else might be able to assist.

Thankfully transformer design is totally standard, off-the-shelf electrical engineering. Many textbooks and websites have all the information you need to do proper transformer design. Metglas mainly has two things: very high permeability, making it good for inductor designs, and very low core loss, making it good for transformers up to 100 KHz or so. I assume Don's use of metglas in that diagram was to capture the "magnetic waves" he's saying are coming from the back side of the capacitor. In this case the transformer would be acting somewhat like a guitar pickup, where the magnetic field around the transformer induces some current into the windings. For maximum sensitivity you'd probably just want a large number of turns around a core to see if you can get any results at all, this is one of Don's ideas I haven't personally spent any time experimenting with. Maybe as a proof of concept, just borrow the ferrite loopstick antenna from a salvaged AM radio, they come with windings already installed, usually of litz wire, or just wind a bunch of turns of something thin on it and see if there's a signal when near the capacitor.

I did manage to get a couple large metglas C-cores from ebay a while back, but the problem is that they didn't come with any bobbins to put the windings on! When you buy them from the manufacturer they are supposed to come with the bobbins. I have spent some time trying to design and fabricate something usable as a bobbin (paperboard works if you just want to throw a few turns of wire on it) but I haven't been really happy with anything I've come up with yet.

[tswift]

That's actually a bus bar, it's zinc-plated copper and quite heavy. It will go on the wall inside the shop and serve as a common tie point for grounding experiments. I'm also a ham radio operator and my shop doubles as a ham shack so it will also do double duty as an RF ground for antennas and equipment. The ground plate is the old radiator I showed on the tailgate of my truck a few posts back, that's what will get buried. I still need to do some wire brushing and maybe an acid wash to get it as clean as possible (for a piece of old junk). Then I will make some of the ground enhancement mix using the chemicals I have left from the last time I dug an improved ground, and put that all around the grounding plate before burying it. The disturbed soil should have improved percolation and should get remoistened with every rain, or I can go out with a hose and water it if necessary.

The shop building has a standard 8 foot electrical code ground rod about 20 feet away from where the ground plate will go, so with two independent grounds I can use some measurements and analysis to get an idea of how good my ground is.

And yes, I am fully committed to this project, the project that's taken over my life. I have sacrificed a promising career and now more than one profitable business in order to have the opportunity to do this research. For most of the last ten years now, and almost exclusively for the last five or so, I really have done nothing else. I am either going to figure it out, or I'm going to die trying. Seeing as how I live without health insurance and have a number of health issues, this is not an idle threat. In the past, money has been a major obstacle since as we all know, R&D can be extremely expensive and most of us just have a hobby budget. But I invested in bitcoin early on, and now it's changed my life. I don't have enough money to go blowing it on frivolous stuff, but I can afford to buy what I need for the project now.

On the Don's energy devices. I have been looking at the AmbientenergyGenerator: looks slightly less difficult to my current frustration device. This is the device that uses a large flat isolating platform using a copper sheet, pane of glass and aluminium sheet as backing plate. i have been contemplating the metglass transformer shown.. I have done a bit of research and it seems that High frequency is the name of the game for metglass, although they are supposed to offer excellent results for power transformer at 50/60hz. However, I cannot find any information on winding coils and how one might choose the correct winding strategy. My interest is understanding the difference with say a heavily wound power transformer using laminations and how this might be different to a similar sized power transformer using a metglass core. I thought you might have looked at this and pondered the same question. Or someone else might be able to assist.

Thankfully transformer design is totally standard, off-the-shelf electrical engineering. Many textbooks and websites have all the information you need to do proper transformer design. Metglas mainly has two things: very high permeability, making it good for inductor designs, and very low core loss, making it good for transformers up to 100 KHz or so. I assume Don's use of metglas in that diagram was to capture the "magnetic waves" he's saying are coming from the back side of the capacitor. In this case the transformer would be acting somewhat like a guitar pickup, where the magnetic field around the transformer induces some current into the windings. For maximum sensitivity you'd probably just want a large number of turns around a core to see if you can get any results at all, this is one of Don's ideas I haven't personally spent any time experimenting with. Maybe as a proof of concept, just borrow the ferrite loopstick antenna from a salvaged AM radio, they come with windings already installed, usually of litz wire, or just wind a bunch of turns of something thin on it and see if there's a signal when near the capacitor.

I did manage to get a couple large metglas C-cores from ebay a while back, but the problem is that they didn't come with any bobbins to put the windings on! When you buy them from the manufacturer they are supposed to come with the bobbins. I have spent some time trying to design and fabricate something usable as a bobbin (paperboard works if you just want to throw a few turns of wire on it) but I haven't been really happy with anything I've come up with yet.

[Dwane]

$100 Good value!

Hello Tswift,
You certainly mean business. i think you have had exceptional value at $100 for the Loader/Back hoe. Where I live, I would have had to pay a minimum of 4hours just to get someone out. And I would be looking at about $100+ an hour. I hired a Back hoe about a year and a half ago to excavate the footings for an extension to our house. Then I was being charged $110 an hour, plus I had to cop travelling each way at 1/2 hour a journey at full rate.

I am surmising that the holes in your ground plate are for moisture circulation? although I don't see why it has to be supported on what looks like rubber blocks. also, are you using aluminium? If you intend salting the ground as per Tesla, then I think your aluminium might suffer some corrosion. Anyway, a very thorough job. God work! Impressive!

On the Don's energy devices. I have been looking at the AmbientenergyGenerator: looks slightly less difficult to my current frustration device. This is the device that uses a large flat isolating platform using a copper sheet, pane of glass and aluminium sheet as backing plate. i have been contemplating the metglass transformer shown.. I have done a bit of research and it seems that High frequency is the name of the game for metglass, although they are supposed to offer excellent results for power transformer at 50/60hz. However, I cannot find any information on winding coils and how one might choose the correct winding strategy. My interest is understanding the difference with say a heavily wound power transformer using laminations and how this might be different to a similar sized power transformer using a metglass core. I thought you might have looked at this and pondered the same question. Or someone else might be able to assist.

Keep digging! When digging my footings, on the corner boundary of our property we came across an old rubbish dump. It contained very many "Old"bottles and some salvageable pottery pieces. We also got a lot of damaged pieces until we realised what we were digging up. No Gold though!

Regards

Dwane

[tswift]

Making progress on getting the ground improvements installed. Here are some of the parts that will be going into the connection:

[med.3012]

Don mentions that the length of the secondary should be a multiple of the length of the primary. Can anybody confirm whether this makes a difference?

hello,


there is two important link about important info Don Smith shared to NuEnergy Yahoo group :


https://energyevo.com/2015/01/18/upd...y-yahoo-group/

https://energyevo.com/2016/08/05/nue...missing-posts/


you can find a reply in the above link.

[p75213]

Don mentions that the length of the secondary should be a multiple of the length of the primary. Can anybody confirm whether this makes a difference?

[tswift]

If you need a good cheap ground with out a back how just go to Lowes and by some half inch wheel water pipe and a hose bib and just jet into the earth you can go down 300ft .put in several 10 ft sections and put in and down around the pipes salt like a cup in the water .you could be done in a couple of hours and under 100.00 bucks. you'll need some clamps for the wire stainless steel ban clamps are good and cheap Jim. Hay while your at it get some PVC and jet in a well your ready to go .same set up .

I can only wish that I lived some place where something this simple worked! Here in Texas we have R-O-C-K and even driving steel posts for fence is a chore. Digging or drilling is something better left to the heavy equipment, which is why I'm so glad I made the phone call and got these guys out to do it:



With a big machine and an experienced operator: 20 minutes to get 5 feet down! I think it took more time to get the machine on and off the truck than it did to dig the hole. Best $100 I ever spent, I planned for more but it turned out to be easy digging.

You can see the white color of the limestone below about the first 6 inches of topsoil.... And the size of some of the boulders that came out of the hole....

https://s20.postimg.org/ydb5ie0gt/IMG_1740_small.jpg

Now to get the ground plate installed! I have some wide flat braided cable on order, as well as a real heavy-duty grounding block. I need to get some conduit but I can obtain that locally.

[jim glinski]

Ground

If you need a good cheap ground with out a back how just go to Lowes and by some half inch wheel water pipe and a hose bib and just jet into the earth you can go down 300ft .put in several 10 ft sections and put in and down around the pipes salt like a cup in the water .you could be done in a couple of hours and under 100.00 bucks. you'll need some clamps for the wire stainless steel ban clamps are good and cheap Jim. Hay while your at it get some PVC and jet in a well your ready to go .same set up .

[Solarlab]

F.Y.I.

These Keysight videos provide one method of generating the input Harmonic related
waveforms required for "standing waves in long lines" as shown on Gorchilin's web site.

They also give some valuable insight into driving high power devices as well as the
possible inner workings of the Kacher and other schemes. This information is presented
in an attempt to answer a question - How do I ...? You will quickly become aware there is
simply not a single line, or paragraph, response!

Hopefully some will find this of interest and value.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...P7TbqBpftidzI8

Videos 1 through 5 are of interest with video 3 "Class E," video 4 "Class F,"
and video 5 "Class J" being of particular value when considering creating
harmonic waveforms as demonstrated by Gorchilin:

Заметки

Under Notes | Theory - select the first article;
The magnetic component of energy of standing waves;
1. The square of the displacement amplitude of the standing wave;
Live plots re: harmonics and their effects on "Standing waves in long lines. Animation"
can be seen in the following configurable animated graphic representations:

example 1:
Standing waves in long lines. Animation

example 2:
Standing waves in long lines. Animation

Another method worth considering is Arbitrary Waveform generation and
pre-distortion; but you must still properly drive a (switching) power device.

P75231 - thanks, good link...

As we tie much of this together, the loops begin to close...

FIN

[p75213]

Another russian site: Дональд Смит | Свободная энергия

It's not so easy to read when translated but here's a couple of things that may be of interest:
- Efficiency of 600%
- Tank circuit frequency must be a multiple of NST frequency.

He also provides a solid state alternative.

[Solarlab]

F.Y.I.

Radient Current - N. Tesla technology and t. Morey.
By Korsun Dmitry Alekseevič. September 2016.

Briefly, an introduction by Alekseevich is found on the Matri-X forum submitted
under "slogatel" in the "Radiant Current" thread post #3032, as follows:

"I propose for consideration such a variant:
The article is a part of the material presented on the website ????????? ???????? ?????? ? ???? - ??????? ????????.
As a regular analytical study, I was offered the topic "Analysis of technologies for
obtaining and using electric energy from the external environment". The analysis
should have been subjected to all available information on the successful experiments
of the famous experimenters N. Tesla and TG Morey."

?????????? ?. ????? ? ?. ?. ?????. - ????????????? ?????????? - ????????? - ??????? ?????? - ????????? ???????? ?????? ? ????

* Another good EDA analysis candidate. *

FIN

[tswift]

Presenting tonight's work: the SSDS! As in, solid state Don Smith. Right now I'm working on the driver circuit, which is nothing more than a normal solid state Tesla coil. I had a breadboard with a half-bridge driver circuit using a fixed frequency (but tunable) inverter using an SG3525 driver chip. This worked fairly well, except that due to the high Q of the secondary it's very sensitive to tuning and moving around near the coil changes the capacitance enough to affect it. So does spark loading once you turn the power up enough. I needed a self-resonant circuit capable of tracking the resonant frequency accurately. I experimented with antenna feedback but could never get this to work reliably. Using a current transformer on the ground wire to the secondary coil works better but the whole driver circuit really needs to be shielded. I took more than a few design ideas from this highly useful page:

How to build a Solid State Tesla Coil | SSTC 2 by Loneoceans Labs

I really liked the idea of using a dead PC power supply case for the circuit, especially since I already had a few on hand. Also the driver circuit is greatly simplified, just using a TI UCC37325 MOSFET driver IC, which is conveniently set up perfectly for running a half-bridge since it has two drivers, one inverting and one non-inverting. The circuit really couldn't be much simpler. It actually started right up and worked briefly the first time I connected power, until I jostled it and shorted something and smoked the driver IC. So more troubleshooting is needed but the idea seems sound.

What I need is just a stand-alone medium power SSTC to act as the driver stage for a Don Smith style output circuit. With good enough grounding I am hoping that this will be enough to achieve positive results, a power gain and self-looping. It's all solid state with no spark gaps, so silent and maintenance-free in operation. I know I sound like a broken record, but if you spend any time experimenting with Tesla coils you will rapidly discover that spark gaps are both (A) extremely noisy and (B) far from maintenance-free. A spark-driven device is fine for proof of concept, but you could never actually run your house from a unit like that, for extended periods of time, and expect to have reliable power with no downtime.