Hendershot Replications

[Gazzasore]

http://www.vintageaircraft.org/featured/2005%20-%20Vol.%2033,%20No.%2004%20-%20The%20Earth%20Inductor%20Compass.pdf

[Gazzasore]

Hi Team
These guys in Russia are also trying to get this device working

Бестопливный генератор Хендершота • Форум проекта Заряд

[Dave45]

[Gazzasore]

Hi Guys
Hey during searching on this subject on Google I found this not sure if it will be helpful or not
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=pt...ndershot&btnG=

[morpher44]

low resistance

Maybe it was the type of material the capacitors had. Can you order that type of material? The material in the Pyramid TM 58 ones? I ordered extra of the ones I got so I will attempt to cut them open and do the same thing. I guess as GSM said that the secret is in the coil/cap combination, that maybe it has something to do with the coils being in such close proximity to the homemad cap that they work together. As T-1000 has mentioned caps can be charged by being in close proximity to coils.

Yes I suspect that the foil found inside one of these AC capacitors is "special" in that it is lower resistance foil. If you use household aluminum foil, like I tried, the resistance is probably a bit too high. This can cause your oscillations to dampen too quickly as the LRC circuit here suffers from a larger "R" value.

T. H. Moray spells out that you need the following for good oscillations:
4 * L / C > {should be much greater than} > R*R
i.e. to keep R as small as possible. Superconductive materials would be ideal
for oscillations in a tank circuit.

--morpher44

[GSM]

Magnetic excitation induces the metal core electrons to be captured by iron atomic nucleii. The iron thus emanates gamma radiation and gradually (very slowly) becomes used up as a fuel via conversion to a manganese rust. Aluminium foil directly transduces UV-gamma radition directly into electrical charge flow with is fed back into the oscillation and empowers the load.
Once core-cap tuning initiates buzzer timed feedback, the load current flow itself contributes to magnetic field intensification and special capacitor transducible gamma radiation from within the core.

This is why after the death of Hendershot, his circuit was accurately described as an electrosttic generator, and why it was also said to work well only in a dry environment.

Cheers ............ Graham.

The Photoelectric Effect - A Simple Experiment w/ UV Photons - YouTube

[drak]

Yeah I think if I recall, Lester would crack up two of the 40MFD ones, and carefully dump out the oil and remove the foil. He would lay it out on a big table, on wax paper, and then remove all the oil by wiping it off.
Next he would use this material to make his own cylinder capacitors with a value of 7.8nF.
WHY he does this, I have no idea.
I speculate that he wanted
* that specific capacitance for tuning a certain frequency
* high-capacity -- ability to store a high-level of Joules at that value
of capacitance
* ability to "tweak" it with clamps to make subtle adjustments to
the capacitance (ala variable capacitor sort of)

This step seems a bit strange to me. There are easier ways to get to 7.8nF using parallel and series connected HV capacitors. I suppose that might be a bit pricey, however. Further, instead of having variable capacitors for tuning, it seems to me it would have been easier to make several TAPS on his coil and then make the connections at each tap until he finds resonance.
It is really odd that he made his own cylinder capacitors -- a step NOT DONE in the recent hoax.

--morpher44

Maybe it was the type of material the capacitors had. Can you order that type of material? The material in the Pyramid TM 58 ones? I ordered extra of the ones I got so I will attempt to cut them open and do the same thing. I guess as GSM said that the secret is in the coil/cap combination, that maybe it has something to do with the coils being in such close proximity to the homemad cap that they work together. As T-1000 has mentioned caps can be charged by being in close proximity to coils.

[morpher44]

extra

Thank you morpher44, I ordered $125 worth of caps at 440v and will start building my coils this weekend. I ordered extra because I will use for other experiments and I like to have extra.

Yeah I think if I recall, Lester would crack up two of the 40MFD ones, and carefully dump out the oil and remove the foil. He would lay it out on a big table, on wax paper, and then remove all the oil by wiping it off.
Next he would use this material to make his own cylinder capacitors with a value of 7.8nF.
WHY he does this, I have no idea.
I speculate that he wanted
* that specific capacitance for tuning a certain frequency
* high-capacity -- ability to store a high-level of Joules at that value
of capacitance
* ability to "tweak" it with clamps to make subtle adjustments to
the capacitance (ala variable capacitor sort of)

This step seems a bit strange to me. There are easier ways to get to 7.8nF using parallel and series connected HV capacitors. I suppose that might be a bit pricey, however. Further, instead of having variable capacitors for tuning, it seems to me it would have been easier to make several TAPS on his coil and then make the connections at each tap until he finds resonance.
It is really odd that he made his own cylinder capacitors -- a step NOT DONE in the recent hoax.

--morpher44

[GSM]

Hi Drak,

No matter what you concentrate on, the Mk3 secret was with the old fashioned type of tin can sleeve cores (no longer manufactured) and the multi-winding induced magnetic wave pulses induced therein.

Cheers ......... Graham.

[drak]

Good advice Morpher.

Hi Drak.

Please do some additional reading. That nice little earner video is a -
! HOAX !

and it so not worthy of being mentioned here in Morpher's thread.

Cheers .......... Graham.

I have a feeling of that too considering the last part of the 2.5 hour long version shows a few inconsistencies. There is a lot of latency between when the person moves the coils towards the magnet and the time the bulbs change brightness. Also there is a flash of the bulbs when the coils are away from the magnet which indicates an outside source for the lights. There is also a few places wires could have been hidden. Holes drilled in the table underneath of the electric tape and wire not fully exposed behind the set of lights. Here it also seems someone tried to replicate it and failed. So I will try the 80uf and 40uf as specified by Lester's son. Not sure what to make of this.

Probably the easiest place to look is ebay.
You need 40MFD and 80MFD AC caps with the highest possible
voltage rating -- within your budget.

Thank you morpher44, I ordered $125 worth of caps at 440v and will start building my coils this weekend. I ordered extra because I will use for other experiments and I like to have extra.

[GSM]

I was refering to the schematic that has (4) 1000uF caps and (2) 500uF caps posted earlier.
The one that video uses.

Good advice Morpher.

Hi Drak.

Please do some additional reading. That nice little earner video is a -
! HOAX !

and it so not worthy of being mentioned here in Morpher's thread.

Cheers .......... Graham.

[drak]

Probably the easiest place to look is ebay.
You need 40MFD and 80MFD AC caps with the highest possible
voltage rating -- within your budget.

example: 80 MFD UF 370V Oval AC Run Capacitor 80/370, NIB! on eBay!

I was refering to the schematic that has (4) 1000uF caps and (2) 500uF caps posted earlier. The one that this video uses.

[morpher44]

ebay

Any source for those caps yet?

Probably the easiest place to look is ebay.
You need 40MFD and 80MFD AC caps with the highest possible
voltage rating -- within your budget.

example: 80 MFD UF 370V Oval AC Run Capacitor 80/370, NIB! on eBay!

[drak]

Any source for those caps yet?

[T-1000]

I didn't learn this in school, but you can in fact transfer energy between a capacitor and an inductor -- similar to mutual induction in a transformer. AC currents can flow through their AIR (or other dielectric) between surfaces that are part of the capacitor and wire surfaces. This opens the possibility of having a new sort of electronic device which I lovingly call the "Coilpacitor".
Electricians are taught NOT to wrap wires around copper tubing.
But heck, I'm not an electrician. Lets do it...

Coilpacitor - YouTube

Dual Coilpacitor Experiment - YouTube

-morpher44

Nice to see you back after 3 years break.
When you do high voltage discharge the capacitors around always are getting charged.
It is more intention to understand what is capacitor function inside of Hendershot baskets as it sits between shorted flat coil inside and under coils on top...