Captret - Perpetual Light with Dead Batteries

[Artisan]

Results so far from captret charging a super cap:

9 volt battery started out at 8.44 volts and now is up to 8.46 volts.

The charging super cap started out at .461 volts and now is up to .713 volts.

And previous---------------

Does anyone know a way to pulse the captret when it gets to a certain voltage?

If the potential stored in the captret is within the 9V range, you may try the Esaki flasher circuit below (and adapt):
Simplest_LED_Flasher_Circuit

As you mentioned before, there are plenty of opportunities for experimentation. Some ideas come to mind:

1) Run time constant tests of supercap via captret using higher voltage battery configuration - (i.e. next time, hook up a 24V battery to your 10F supercap setup (dropping the connection from the supercap "o" to the battery "+" terminal))

2) Pulse a bifilar coil using an Esaki triggered captret, using the BEMF recharge the battery.

3) Increase the affect by running the several captrets (and loads) in parallel. This would be interesting as it appears the working battery recharges during operation

Lastly,

I think you may be on to something as this affect appears to exploit a "charge-by-induction/polarisation" component of the capacitor. Efficiently creating work by this affect seems to have been overlooked, but may be the missing link (esp. in the HV research). The fact that the terminal configuration of these capacitors are radial in construction is probably helping (look up Aspen notes on Asymmetrical Capacitors), and therefore shouldn't be dismissed.

Cheers,

[Jbignes5]

Your measurements suggest the behaviour of a dynamic impedance between the [o] and the other cap leads. This explains all the captret effects. The current is high at the begining as the junction impedance is low. In time, the junction impedance increases and the current drops while the voltage bounces slightly back up.

Also, the captret can be seen as a voltage to current source converter which allows for the use of extremely low voltage source to power the LEDs. Unfortunately, these are all normal circuit behaviour.

We can safely conclude there is no extraordinary effects in the captret. Sorry friends, time to move on.

Miki Out.

You know what gets me about this post. It is the fact that he is saying nothing new lets move on. Whoa please stop saying there is nothing new here. They are charging a source and netting a load to run as well and gaining
charge on the capacitor and you say this is nothing new?

Yes these are normal parts but they are being used in a new novel way. Probably not new way but one that was never really explored on here. The good Doctor drops in and says heh I've done that already. Care to elaborate? At least put a link to the specific information instead of saying look for it on my site.

My advice is to completely explore this avenue till it is completely dead. In fact if you finally understand what is really going on here you could in fact make this effect more efficient and smaller as well.

Start to look at the values you are using and see if there is some kind of resonance you are creating in this setup. I would start in ratio's. Maybe there is a key here and you can find a way to increase your output. Changing the load sizes and type of load as well are avenues that can be explored.

If you think you have something here then by all means go and explore it.

[ibpointless2]

You know what gets me about this post. It is the fact that he is saying nothing new lets move on. Whoa please stop saying there is nothing new here. They are charging a source and netting a load to run as well and gaining
charge on the capacitor and you say this is nothing new?

Yes these are normal parts but they are being used in a new novel way. Probably not new way but one that was never really explored on here. The good Doctor drops in and says heh I've done that already. Care to elaborate? At least put a link to the specific information instead of saying look for it on my site.

My advice is to completely explore this avenue till it is completely dead. In fact if you finally understand what is really going on here you could in fact make this effect more efficient and smaller as well.

Start to look at the values you are using and see if there is some kind of resonance you are creating in this setup. I would start in ratio's. Maybe there is a key here and you can find a way to increase your output. Changing the load sizes and type of load as well are avenues that can be explored.

If you think you have something here then by all means go and explore it.

Thank you, i completely agree!

We do need to explore this as much as we can, that is why i made it open source so that everyone can come in show what they got and to better the experiment! When you get people who bring it down and say that they did that and don't further the movement then we get nowhere. We can fine tune this thing and really make it sing. there are so many possibilities out there that we have not explored.

To further the experiment i drawn a diagram of a captret circuit that flashes a LED and sends the energy from the top to + into a coil and the back emf charges a battery. Its a little rough but it should get the point across. I believe with this we can make a more efficient pulsed bedini SSG motor, two pulses for the price of one?
Captret flasher back emf.jpg

[ibpointless2]

oh and for those who think that nothing new is coming in, nothing amazing is happening then listen up. My captret is still lighting a LED for over a week at a constant light with NO lost in battery power!

Why is that amazing because the LED should have stop within a few seconds, when a capacitor is fully charge it becomes a open circuit and the led cuts off. Try it yourself, put a LED in series with a capacitor and run with a battery, watch the LED get bright and then dim and then off. Running for over a week is amazing, but running at no loss is spectacular.

[DrStiffler]

You know what gets me about this post. It is the fact that he is saying nothing new lets move on. Whoa please stop saying there is nothing new here. They are charging a source and netting a load to run as well and gaining
charge on the capacitor and you say this is nothing new?

Yes these are normal parts but they are being used in a new novel way. Probably not new way but one that was never really explored on here. The good Doctor drops in and says heh I've done that already. Care to elaborate? At least put a link to the specific information instead of saying look for it on my site.

My advice is to completely explore this avenue till it is completely dead. In fact if you finally understand what is really going on here you could in fact make this effect more efficient and smaller as well.

Start to look at the values you are using and see if there is some kind of resonance you are creating in this setup. I would start in ratio's. Maybe there is a key here and you can find a way to increase your output. Changing the load sizes and type of load as well are avenues that can be explored.

If you think you have something here then by all means go and explore it.

@Jbignes5
So something crawled in your backside did it not?

If you would have put mouse in motion before mouth and clicked the link I provided you would go directly to the information.

[Joit]

[minoly]

Thank you, i completely agree!

We do need to explore this as much as we can, that is why i made it open source so that everyone can come in show what they got and to better the experiment! When you get people who bring it down and say that they did that and don't further the movement then we get nowhere. We can fine tune this thing and really make it sing. there are so many possibilities out there that we have not explored.

To further the experiment i drawn a diagram of a captret circuit that flashes a LED and sends the energy from the top to + into a coil and the back emf charges a battery. Its a little rough but it should get the point across. I believe with this we can make a more efficient pulsed bedini SSG motor, two pulses for the price of one?
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That looks like a nice add on to the "negistor"
"http://www.cappels.org/dproj/simplest_LED_flasher/Simplest_LED_Flasher_Circuit.html"
I think one of JB's videos gets into the "negative transistor".
have you been able to charge a cap or battery w/ this pickup coil?
we had this little flasher going for a couple of months 2 years ago, our battery was to big to notice any loss, never thought to add a pick up coil.
Look forward to an update on your progress.

[ibpointless2]

It should stay lit for a good amount of time, weeks, maybe months or years? It will get to a point where it will just stay there, running the LED at a constant light.

What do you mean by "voltage pump"?

[ibpointless2]

That looks like a nice add on to the "negistor"
"http://www.cappels.org/dproj/simplest_LED_flasher/Simplest_LED_Flasher_Circuit.html"
I think one of JB's videos gets into the "negative transistor".
have you been able to charge a cap or battery w/ this pickup coil?
we had this little flasher going for a couple of months 2 years ago, our battery was to big to notice any loss, never thought to add a pick up coil.
Look forward to an update on your progress.

Where can i find JB"s videos on the negative transistor? Why didn't he use a zener diode, isn't it doing the same thing?

I haven't built it yet, i just wanted some feedback from others as to what they think. I'm also thinking about putting another coil before it gets to ground, for double the charging power.

[Artisan]

Where can i find JB"s videos on the negative transistor? Why didn't he use a zener diode, isn't it doing the same thing?

I haven't built it yet, i just wanted some feedback from others as to what they think. I'm also thinking about putting another coil before it gets to ground, for double the charging power.

The branch from the top of the captret "o" needs only to connect to the 2N2222 transistor and not the 12V source. From your diagram, the 12V source should only be charging the +/- terminals of the captret. You may want to increase the voltage of your supply to 24V if it's halved at the "o" terminal.

I think the Esaki effect has an advantage for these types of transistors as they have a better power rating (for surge current handling) instead of using a zener rated for the same voltage.

-As an aside, in earlier posts there have been some mention of a variable increase shown in resistance when trying to detect any leak current between "o" and the +/- terminals on the captret. Bear in mind that when intially charging any capacitor, you will have displacement current, with inversly proportional resistance (approaching infinity for an ideal capacitor).

[Joit]

Here

[dragon]

Thanks for posting the link Dr. Stiffler... I remember seeing the small circuit as it was posted in the High voltage from thin air thread but never saw the whole paper.

I tried the "captret" as the input for the Sec 18 and it is absolutely amazing what that little circuit can do. Drawing 0.5ma and lighting 12 LED's very brightly with a 9 volt input.

I can see from your paper I have lots more experiments to do... Still haven't been successful with your last group of videos but haven't given up....
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[rave154]

Hi,

i left the circuit to run all night while asleep....12.68V....gave it a 9 hoiur rest, came home after work and the battery is still at 12.68..so doesnt appear to be one of those "phantom" charges....though it might still dissapear when a load is placeed on it....

re-connected the circuit...amps was 0.4mA..quickly gone down to 0.145mA.battery at 12.67V

going to try a few combinations of this & that...see what happens

[dragon]

One thing to keep in mind when using a battery as the input... It would take close to 7000 hours to use 1 amp hour from it at that low of power draw. Even a weeks time may not show any difference in voltage change - there would probably be more internal losses than the energy your drawing from it. A better test might be to use a 1 farad cap as the power source this way the energy could be calculated and compared a little easier.

Voltage is a poor indicator of the batteries state of charge, it will consume amp/hours while maintaining voltage until it can no longer sustain voltage as it is depleted. There really isn't any way to calculate the actual charge in a battery.
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[Jbignes5]

Sorry..

@Jbignes5
So something crawled in your backside did it not?

If you would have put mouse in motion before mouth and clicked the link I provided you would go directly to the information.

Listen I am very sorry Doctor. In my haste I did not see the link below your post because many many others have personal links there. Once you mentioned the link I quickly looked at it and saw what you were referring to. Like I said I am sorry.
The thing that separates the two is that one you were using a somewhat more complicated setup then IBpointless is. I guess it doesn't matter in the strict sense but I would think that the type of power either pulsing or even standing wave generator is a very different effects or outcomes.

Seeing that IB is not using any power modifications does bring to mind that there is something odd happening here and that it involves laying an ac signal over a dc component with no real device to do this (oscillator) besides a setup of two capacitors and a diode plus a static source of potential. I'll have to look at the circuit again but I think this goes beyond the scope of your device (sec).

Another interesting test would be to use the Avramenko's plug to see if the AC he thinks is there is actually a standing wave... Hmmm