Swtiched capacitive power supply

[AetherScientist]

I've saw since some years ago that some people have built some circuits where they charge the caps in parallel, discharge the cap bank from the power source, and then change the capacitor connections to series and connect to the load to perform work.

Some people have also found the Captret effect, so I think this circuit need to be built and tested to see if something quite interesting happens. Since this circuit is very easy to build, I'm going to build it and see if something that I could find interesting or curious happens.

The caps I have are 16 Volts, 330uF electrolytic ones.

[nueview]

let me know what you find

i have been interested in different ways of using electrostatic energy and have been thinking about this phase shift on capacitance and thinking about using it for electrostatic machines to up the charge volume output as i do not need to have 10kv in the micro amps but a hundred in the milliamp ramge might be usefull.
Martin

[boguslaw]

well,I think the secret is not in various connection but in reason why it is done such way - higher voltage discharge, exactly what Don Smith said : higher level of excitement

[nueview]

from my work with electrostatic it does not take much charge to get allot of voltage and the flow of charge is better than a discherge as the chatrge that is the tension for the voltage can come from the area in close proximity to the discharge point.

it needs to have some form of a well to discern and move to to be made more usefull.
Martin