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What JR said!

@@totherarf What Jr say? ...lol

oh I plan to finish it mate - just not as many step by step vids is all

@@ThinkingandTinkering But we love to watch and hear you reasoning about this stuff, keep it up Sir Robert!

Same ^^

I was pondering it too mate especially as the coils and magnets were almost certainly out of phase and it was going to be one hell of a job to get them in phase lol

@@ThinkingandTinkering Would you explain how you hooked up the components in a video, or share a schematic somehow.? In comments back and forth with other viewers here, some of us are not 100% sure how you did it. I assume you hooked up the coil, capacitor, and ac input of the rectifier in parallel (I also assume this creates a 'frequency resonant circuit'). I am really curious about the science of what is going on in the circuit. Is DC output self limiting? Meaning, would it only output a certain amount of DC current based on the resonance of the circuit itself? As DC current is drawn off does the inductive resistance between the magnets and coil increase?

cheers mate

Would it be possible to see a schematic for those of us a little less technically inclined Paul?

@RealFamilyMan Thanks!

cheers mate - I will have a look for one

@@realfamilyman The main problem to overcome is to have all the coils output in phase. Otherwise it will happen as Robert explained when he connected the coils directly. If the outputs are out of phase they will cancel each other and this will increase the resistive magnetic field. In a factory generator all the coils are perfectly aligned in order to be in phase and the output to be able to be added.

@@realfamilyman What page? I am curious to see the schematic of Robert's circuit. I think the issue is if you went with a single rectifier, the coils would have to be perfectly aligned so there was no out of phase sine wave cancelling effect. There would be losses there if not. Who knows how much? What is also nice about this approach is it is a simple modular design most shade tree tinkerers can do.

@jdh7803 Nothing is free. Just very very cheap.

where is the 'free' energy? this is just a wind turbine

You and me both lol

@iBiana Doubt Maybe to Arthur C. Clark, not me... I always thought that quote was ridiculous. Firstly, what is this "magic" he is referring too?... 'The unknown'?

@iBiana Doubt I knew my great grandfather intimately until he died when I was 22 years old. He was born in 1894. In his lifetime he went from horse and buggies to flying to Florida 'for the winter' on jets. He never mentioned "magic", I assure you. Let's start here: Do you believe in "magic"?

Pat Link what college are you? .. i was thinking the same exact thing this morning..!

@@Nick_Tag I work in a secondary school with 6th form attached

@@Nick_Tag are with your video about learning watching topic. Makes them much easier to break down in to chunks to remember and advance with

@@chrispollard6568 Put this on it's side and it is horizontal and works.

wow - that is an awesome thing to say mate - thank you for taking the time to say that - it is quite an honour for me you know that you are thinking about that I am seriously glad you like the series that much - cheers!

I forgot about that - cheers mate

awesome mate - cheers

Yeah I was about to say the same thing about the phase of the output - I wonder if it’s possible to orient them in such a way to provide 3-phase power output but that’s probably pretty tricky

cheers mate and thanks for saying that

lol - awesome mate cheers

that is an awesome thing to do mate - I popped over to your channel in the hope of seeing a video on that - fancy doing one?

@@ThinkingandTinkering I may have to give that some thought. I should have most gear to make it possible. I might be able to recruit my brother. You’re inspiring me, my friend. Who knows what will happen?

So, my Tesla coil has an audio input which allows me to hook up an audio source. The plasma heats the air to produce the sound waves. I want to hook it up to a test tube of water, and a tone generator I built with my brother, and see what different frequencies of plasma would do to the water. Could I generate Brown's gas, and would the right frequency give me a better conversion rate? Heck, if the anode and cathode could be separated, could one get pure O2 and H2? Which could be burnt none the less to produce pure distilled water. Desalination maybe? Hmmm.

@@jsoswell it would be awesome if you did mate

Then my question would be, would your wind turbine be able to power the Tesla coil to produce flammable gas from salt water, which would be burnt for energy, water, and sea salt production?

accentually cycle banking would eliminate this as well,.

cheers mate

awesome mate - I am glad it helped - cheers

I did find that interesting that's for sure

mate - I barely know what I am talking about most of the time lol - you should certainly speak up

@@ThinkingandTinkering .. where I live in Arkansas it is not very windy .. compared to Kansas. "Arkansas" comes from Native American .. meaning "south wind" .. so "Kansas" means "wind". We get some wind here .. but not much unless associated with weather changes. If I were higher up on a 2,000 ft. mountain we have nearby .. the trees are old but not tall bc of the wind. I'm in the early process of putting a metal roof on our house .. and planning to do away with the round vents like you showed. I have three of them here and they are almost always moving as the heat from the attic vents out. However, it's got me wondering if I were to build a wind machine like you are showing .. but on a horizontal axis over the peak of the roof .. what it would achieve. I have shade trees that I do not want to cut down just for maximum solar .. but there is plenty of south facing roof for solar panels. I try to keep my mind open and really enjoy what you are doing with R&D in your space there. Truly amazing .. and we never know the extent of our influence. As regards to the capacitor .. I could imagine that the capacitor would take the "load" off the magnetic energy collected in the coil pass .. kinda like a check valve. It's awesome to see you talking about extra coils sitting around the radius .. something I could see the possibility of .. even on both ends (top and bottom).

thank you mate - I just counted in my head - sounds like you did a much better job - cheers

lol - thank you mate and thank you for taking the time to say that

cheers mate

I plan on doing that mate - I just wasn't going to do as many step by step videos

@@ThinkingandTinkering Stroke of Brilliance on adding the Capacitors! I wish I understood electronics and electrical knowledge! I better start reading! lol Inspiring Stuff Robert! 🖖

cheers mate

for sure mate

cheers mate

Awesome, thank you mate

I'm not going to lie. At first I was like ... fu@k just show me the steps. This of course was naive. I set out to build this and found out very fast that I did not know what I did not know. Now I appreciate your calm nature to chaotic problems. Well done professor.

lol - cheers mate

aha this is the only answer which actually makes sense in my mind :)

I think so mate - cheers

@KZfaq Censors Opinions Nice thought, I believe you're partially correct: If the coils are out of phase, and not exactly 180°, then the rectified voltage will also be out of phase, and there would still be a voltage difference in the different coils, but smaller... which would decrease inductive resistance, or even eliminate it, (if the phase difference was originally 180°). However, since the capacitor "smooths out" the wave form, removing it may increase those temporary voltage differences, leaving you with a "partial proof". As a side note: adding a capacitor to a coil may reduce energy losses, (if the capacitor is the right size to achieve resonance, or close to it).

awesome mate - thank you for taking the time to say that

cheers mate

@@ThinkingandTinkering Cheers!

cheers mate

lol - he sounds like my kind of guy lol

thank you mate and thank you for saying so

Thank you mate - You too!

Thank you! Cheers!

Awesome, thank you mate

cheers mate

You beat me to it !!! I was more wordy about it too. Good catch.

cheers mate

Unfortunately, I imagine quite a few of us don't have thousands or even hundreds of dollars of electronic test equipment at our disposal. Is there an easier method to discover this?

@@ffaubert1 Fair point, let me give that some thought.

You dont need a multi channel oscilloscope for that. Simply hook up two coils in series and measure the ac voltage using a multimeter. then adjust the position of the coils until you get maximum ac voltage. Of course this only works if the magnets on the underside are spaced evenly. Or in Sir Roberts case are not spaced at all :D

@@ffaubert1 As Gerald stated you could roughly line up the phases by connecting the coils in series and using a multimeter, adjust one coil until you have the highest AC voltage, or if you want to be fiddly and unnecessarily precise like me, you could build a simple circuit to align the phases based on their 0 point crossing time. You would need a dual op-amp chip, two resistors, and two LEDs, and a 5V supply. You would connect the negative inputs of the op-amps and the same leg of each coil all together, then each of the other legs of the coil to one of the op-amp's positive inputs, one resistor(100-200ohms would do) to each output of the op-amp, then both LEDs between the unused ends of the resistors with one facing one way and the other reversed. Naturally the 5V supply would have its positive go to both the op-amp's VCC and it's negative would go to the op-amp's ground. Then when the magnets pass the coils, any discrepancy in phase will illuminate the LEDs, with the severity of the discrepancy reflecting in how long they stay lit, and perfect matching of phases would result in the LEDs not illuminating at all.

so if the coils are put "in phase" then would the capacitors not be necessary ? if you keep the cap./diode bridge for dc output with the coils in phase, then would the caps. affect how the coils are coupled/decoupled from the magnets ?

cheers mate

I guess to safe-guard against excess load you could just use much bigger capacitors, Robert can print them with his conductive ink easily enough.

lol - I call my activation device Luke - Lights up kinaesthtic effect - lol

it's a good thought mate - properly arranged heated air in an updraft might be an idea too

@@ThinkingandTinkering The chimney effect? Same principle, but with winter on the doorstep definitely a viable possibility. Incidentally if you enclose black pipe in an insulated glass box you increase the efficiency dramatically...

that is interesting mate - thank you for taking the time to post

cheers mate

Thank you very much!

cheers mate

cheers mate and thanks for taking the time to post

lol - awesome mate - next time you are in Canterbury!

awesome mate - cheers

wow - awesome mate - cheers

Thank you so much 😀

I like that mate - cheers

cheers mate

stay tuned, "same BAT time", "same BAT channel". LOL

lol - cheers mate

we are due a bit of wind Friday I think

I did wire a bunch in parallel - I should have put that in - cheers mate

Robert Murray-Smith Ace can’t wait to see how this turns out 👍

I do like water power the only problem is my access to it

@@ThinkingandTinkering run to bath tap?

cheers mate

now then - that's an interesting idea - cheers