Sounded like a neat thing to do, nothing subtle here, just massive
overunity power. So I ordered his plans for $10.00. The device is
relatively easy to construct, with the only special parts being those
that can be constructed with easy to obtain steel pipe and rod stock.
The device is excited with a standard neon sign transformer with a 15 kV
output voltage, connected to a Variac to adjust the primary voltage.
During operation, Lyne claims that he could measure up to 2.3 amps with
an AC panel ammeter in the secondary circuit at 14.220 kV for a power
output of about 32 kWatts. Pretty impressive. The neon sign
transformer has the usual center tap ground, so that each secondary
terminal is at about 7.5 kV above ground or 15 kV across the two
secondary terminals.
So I built a version of his device, and connected it up according to
plan, and with a high voltage probe connected to a DMM to monitor the
secondary voltage and a 3 amp full scale Simpson panel ammeter to
measure the secondary current. At about 2.5kV on each terminal, or 5kV
total secondary voltage, the ammeter starts to move, and reaches about 2
amps at 15kV! Wow, 30 kWatts of output power extracted from about 2
pounds of cheap steel pipe stock and a neon sign transformer!
Next step is to figure out how to extract some of this energy from the
secondary loop. If I connect an ordinary 100 watt light bulb in series
with the secondary ammeter, I should be able to see it light up when I
get secondary current above about 0.5 amps or so.
Run the experiment again, the secondary ammeter shows 2 amps, but the
light bulb does not light!
Hmmm. Do we have a problem? So lets do a little regression here.
Disconnect everything from the secondary circuit, then connect one
terminal of the ammeter to one terminal of the transformer. No
connections of any kind to the other terminals of the ammeter or
transformer. Run the experiment again. Still shows 2 amps at 15kV!
If we place the meter right next to the transformer with no connections
to the secondary, then no current is shown in the meter at 15 kV. If
one transformer secondary terminal is connected to both terminals of the
ammeter (i.e. the ammeter is shorted out, but connected to the
transformer secondary), then the ammeter will again show 2 amps at 15
kV! Really wild anomalous free energy behavior!
Had two similar meters, one 3 amps full scale, the other 5 amps full
scale. Each shows about 1/3 full scale reading at 15 kV although the
indicated amperages at 1/3 full scale are different.
Decided to disassemble one of the meters to see what was going on. The
meters are the usual iron vane type used for AC ammeters. The vane is
attached to an off center pivot and located inside a coil of about 40
turns of #18 enameled wire. As the AC current is increased, the spring
loaded vane is magnetically attracted from the center of the coil to the
inside perimeter of the coil. The indicating needle is attached to the
vane.
Apparently the vane can also be electrostatically attracted to the coil
when the voltage on the coil gets above about 2.5kv above ground. So
the AC ammeter can also inadvertently act as a high voltage meter as
well !
Shucks. Wish the experiment had generated overunity. But a great
lesson for me on observation and the pitfalls of interpreting
measurements.
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Contacted Mr. Lyne about all this, and he says he still believes that
there are many kilowatts of energy running around in that secondary
circuit, if only we can figure out how to tap it. Maybe I didn't
correctly reproduce his experiment, as I did not see the resonant dip in
input power that he reports for a total secondary voltage of 14.220 kV.
But, I guess I now will move on to other types of devices.
Charles
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