Donald Smith Devices too good to be true

[Dwane]

Hi ilandtan,
first, my nst's arrived. i ordered two same freight cost for one or two. both appear faulty! will not run properly. what i do have is a couple of HR208 flyback transfomers, no diode built in. it has been raininng heavily here so no work on the house. i have put my figueras device on hold while i work through the theory more slowly. i still cannot get past some sort of radiant effect is needed for the massive output. time will guide me.

i am back on the Don at the moment trying to rationalise the electret theories. i have ordered some machining for a reusable mould for the canaubra wax as a short term fix. all my polymer tests have ultimately returned either positive or negative homocharges, which i think has to be material related. however it is possible that i should build a corona discharge cabinet as this might be a better solution for the polymers, or so the related information suggests. homocharges look to be more difficult to harvest, requiring contra voltage to charge for performance. ok in microphones where it is low level voltage.

i will look for a plasma globe and start this test. i had wondered about the coil and its Rx/Tx. will keep in touch when a globe surfaces.

regards

dwane

[Dwane]

Germanian diodes

Hi ilandtan,
I have read the article you referred to. I did not see any diodes in the Utube video link. My understanding is that germanian diodes are low voltages and susceptible to junction breakdown with any overloading. One of the reasons they went out of fashion?

Have a globe on order.

Regards

Dwane

[ilandtan]

Hi ilandtan,
first, my nst's arrived. i ordered two same freight cost for one or two. both appear faulty! will not run properly. what i do have is a couple of HR208 flyback transfomers, no diode built in. it has been raininng heavily here so no work on the house. i have put my figueras device on hold while i work through the theory more slowly. i still cannot get past some sort of radiant effect is needed for the massive output. time will guide me.

i am back on the Don at the moment trying to rationalise the electret theories. i have ordered some machining for a reusable mould for the canaubra wax as a short term fix. all my polymer tests have ultimately returned either positive or negative homocharges, which i think has to be material related. however it is possible that i should build a corona discharge cabinet as this might be a better solution for the polymers, or so the related information suggests. homocharges look to be more difficult to harvest, requiring contra voltage to charge for performance. ok in microphones where it is low level voltage.

i will look for a plasma globe and start this test. i had wondered about the coil and its Rx/Tx. will keep in touch when a globe surfaces.

regards

dwane

What I wanted to illustrate to you with 12V NST is this: if you take the HV output, and connect one side of an HV diode to (EARTH) ground and the other to the HV output of the nst, while you have a spark plug or Gas Discharge Tube (GDT) in parallel with the diode, you have little spark. Only when you take a battery terminal(doesn't matter which) and air ground it to a counterpoise (un Earth grounded mass of metal), you create strong sparks on the spark plug or GDT.

Most importantly, take your reading off your gaussmeter. I was getting 30 microtesla (300 milligauss), and what Don said, "One Milligauss is the magnetic flux equivalent of approximately 100 Volts of active energy" which means I have 30KV of active energy. Where you find this energy is not where you expect using your gaussmeter.

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What I wanted to illustrate to you with 12V NST is this: if you take the HV output, and connect one side of an HV diode to (EARTH) ground and the other to the HV output of the nst, while you have a spark plug or Gas Discharge Tube (GDT) in parallel with the diode, you have little spark. Only when you take a battery terminal(doesn't matter which) and air ground it to a counterpoise (un Earth grounded mass of metal), you create strong sparks on the spark plug or GDT.

Most importantly, take your reading off your gaussmeter. I was getting 30 microtesla (300 milligauss), and what Don said, "One Milligauss is the magnetic flux equivalent of approximately 100 Volts of active energy" which means I have 30KV of active energy. Where you find this energy is not where you expect using your gaussmeter.

Interesting. I'd have to ask why?

[ilandtan]

Interesting. I'd have to ask why?

The core statements that Don Smith says about how his devices work, (if you work with building circuits) don't seem to align. I have been investigating it from a different way. I am trying to find out when his statements can be proven true, so that I can make the next leap.

When do you see a significant magnetic flux present, and then how do you convert flux into power?

I posted a video where Don Smith shows a strong spark from a plasma tube, that seemingly has no other circuitry. I believe that if you create a antenna to the radiated flux, you can convert the milligauss of magnetic flux into usable power. I feel this is the failure, in the pursuit. We are not creating the flux to begin with, so there is nothing to harvest.

I have noticed in my experiments, that one of the keys are creating a switching field to ground. Then you can transfer this in a receiver, I was able to do this with my slayer TX/RX. With my gaussmeter telling me I had 5 milligauss present, I was able to run a 15 W LED on my RX, with no real tuning. So what happens when you have 300 milligauss?

I think this is what Don was speaking of when he referenced to Prentices device and the lack of knowledge of where to harness the power. If he only knew...

Howard , magnetic resonance flux which is every where present in huge amounts having a Gauss Meter is very important . One milli Gauss is 100 Volts of resonace flux . If PRENTICE or MORAY had known about this rest would have been HISTORY . Using a magnetometer in placing the magnetic dipoles , instead of 3 Kilowatts for PRENTICE would have been MEGAWATTS . This very correct as I use Gauss Meters Professionally for more than 60 years . Don Smith

That quote shows that one of the major factors of this system is WHERE you harvest. Which nobody will understand until they have a gaussmeter.

[Dwane]

nst

Hi ilandtan,
Have just received the refund for the two faulty nst's sent to me. at least i have a refund!. I'll be getting another and also i'll be away for a couple of weeks with the family for a brief rest.

my work on the figuera device has stalled while i reprogram the sequence i need and build some bobbins. maybe i will get Don and Clemente working at the same time? the plasma globe arrived yesterday, have not unpacked it yet. will leave this until i return from our family break.

thanks for being patient with me, building at my house is also taking its toll, i have simultaneously sprained my wrist and pulled a back muscle while working on the pitched roof ceiling. very painful. anyway no pain no gain, as it is said.

regards

Dwane

[Dwane]

Hi ilandtan,
I just had to open the box before I went away with the family. The image says it all. As Don used the top of the globe this and around the centre and just below gave best results. V/m overloaded. 74uT gives us 75Kv. Thats a lot to play with!

[ilandtan]

Hi ilandtan,
I just had to open the box before I went away with the family. The image says it all. As Don used the top of the globe this and around the centre and just below gave best results. V/m overloaded. 74uT gives us 75Kv. Thats a lot to play with!

Wowee! That's twice as strong as mine!. I have 34 uT for 34Kv. You see what we could do with a slayer coil (mine measured 5 uT) putting out 1/7th of the flux of my globe, and 1/15th of your globe. Imagine if we can translate that to power to ground like we do with RX slayers.

What frequency do you measure?

[Dwane]

just caught me!

It was approx 24.7khz.

I have just been browsing an article by Vinyasi. It seems to make a lot of sense to me! Perhaps too to Don's work. I found the concept of the breakdown of voltage back to electrostaic voltage intriguing. Sort of rounds of the mystery!

Too much at the moment. I am struggling to get decent 12v nst. I suppose they are becoming redundant with the influx of low voltage LED neons! I may have to dig deep. Strong US$ and big freight costs will have to be absorbed. Freight is same price as nst from USA to my island home.

edit: the 30Kv on meter in background is me testing voltage multiplier on the slayer tesla coil output. it actually goes up to 60kvish, but probe only 50kv rated.

regards

Dwane

[Dwane]

just thought me again

Here is my slayer, don't know if its the corona causing the larger uT's. At top of col it only around 7uT's. If I turn slayer off, it makes approximately -1.7uT's difference to plasma globe output. So some negative interaction from slayer to plasma globe.

[ilandtan]

It was approx 24.7khz.

I have just been browsing an article by Vinyasi. It seems to make a lot of sense to me! Perhaps too to Don's work. I found the concept of the breakdown of voltage back to electrostaic voltage intriguing. Sort of rounds of the mystery!

Too much at the moment. I am struggling to get decent 12v nst. I suppose they are becoming redundant with the influx of low voltage LED neons! I may have to dig deep. Strong US$ and big freight costs will have to be absorbed. Freight is same price as nst from USA to my island home.

edit: the 30Kv on meter in background is me testing voltage multiplier on the slayer tesla coil output. it actually goes up to 60kvish, but probe only 50kv rated.

regards

Dwane

Take that 24.7khz, to this site here
I used the 96% velocity. Find out what your antenna length should be.

[Dwane]

Hi ilandtan,
Thanks for that link I'll have a look later when i am free of holiday distraction. Got hold of another nst and connected through a 12v inverter to get the battery condition. Worked for a short time only marginal difference. However if a coil was in series I got a reading of 40uT across the coil. Problem is now nst will not run. Only first pulse then shut down. Electronic nst not so suitable!

Maybe I go to mazilli? I have flyback coil without diode! Can set our own pulse. This should work?

regards

Dwane

[ilandtan]

I think Don mentioned an automotive coil getting huge results. I haven't tried that but I would think that should work

[Dwane]

coil

I think Don mentioned an automotive coil getting huge results. I haven't tried that but I would think that should work

Have a small window of internet availability. In Don's Resonance video part 2 1995 he shows his set up using a coil. will have a look again tonight and get the vehicle he used. However, it did not look ike one of the round oil filled type. i got the impression it was squarish.

Dwane

[Dwane]

Reference auto ignition coil. first mention comes with explanation of megajoules device starting at 00:35:00 and 1:36:00. He does pick this up later and gives the automobile and year of manufacture. 1968 Pontiac, new ignition coil.