Captret - Perpetual Light with Dead Batteries

[dragon]

Nice job ipointless, I played around with a 47uf cap and it all works as you said... could lead to some interesting experiments. I made some measurements and was able to light an LED with a .005ma current draw, not super bright but noticeably glowing. About as low as it gets and still light. Also found some interesting results with a pulsed input.

Great find ! keep up the good work !
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[ibpointless2]

hello ibpointless2

Must say great finding.
Today I put un test your circuit and as you said with two dead 9V batteryes (one 7,01V and second 1,2 V), connected in series. When I put it in test, I noticed voltage drop to 4,6 V and still droping (think due so big difference in batterys voltage).

Will see tomorrow
till then

Yes that is way to big of a difference in battery voltage. The 7 volt battery is charging the 1.2 volt battery and that is the reason for the loss. Try it with the 7 volt battery only.

What i suggest is a series of dead batteries that add up to around 20 volts and just let it run non stop to see how long your LED will run for. The LED will get dimmer but should not go out.

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Oh and one important thing i should note if you're trying to replicate this experiment! I used brand new 1uF @ 400 capacitors and before i hook up all the wires to the capacitor i pre-charge the capacitors + and - with a battery, you can use your source battery or a another battery with a voltage close to the source battery. The light sometimes will not turn on unless you pre-charged the capacitor. And a pre-charge is just a mere tap of the capacitor terminals to the battery.
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[sseti]

hello ibpointless2

Must say great finding.
Today I put un test your circuit and as you said with two dead 9V batteryes (one 7,01V and second 1,2 V), connected in series. When I put it in test, I noticed voltage drop to 4,6 V and still droping (think due so big difference in batterys voltage).

Will see tomorrow
till then

[ibpointless2]

Over at overunity.com i have been working on something i call the captret. Its a capacitor thats been modified to allow you to do things that the textbooks say you can't.

Captret - Capacitor and Electret

A simple video demo of me getting twice the Light from a LED for the price of only ONE charge.

YouTube - Captret PROOF OF OVERUNITY

Here is another video of the captret running a LED constantly.

YouTube - Captret LED Driver circuit


But the important thing to note is that when i'm using the "dead" 9 volt batteries the voltage goes down when first connected to the circuit but from there it goes up even though the LED is still connected as a load. The even more crazy part is that my "new" charged 9 volt batteries will drop when first connected to the circuit but keep slowly dropping, and this is what you would expect from any circuit but why does the dead batteries go up?