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Uploaded by on Feb 14, 2011

This is a very simple oscillator which uses a TS 2950 3.3V voltage regulator to light an led and charge batteries.It takes advantage of an unwanted characteristic of some voltage regulators which is oscillation or noise and i use this to pulse a coil.A more complicated setup with a 1:1 bifilar coil is also shown and this produces a higher voltage (even above supply voltage) than the voltage regulator supplies under normal operation.

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  • I want an oscilator circuit that outputs 6VAC at 50Hz from a 6V DC supply. This is to power the primary coil of my BiTT replication. It should be just enough to saturate the core & flux-path to the twin secondary coils so that their back-EMFs will go to each other instead of back to the primary when they are placed on load. I intend to put a bridge-rectifier on one of the coils to charge a capacitor while drawing current from it to power the oscilator feeding the primary coil, powering itself.

  • Hi Galv140577.I think i would use the mains hum to trigger a triple darlington like Lidmotor shows in a recent vid if you want something nice and simple but it may be better to build a pwm so you can tune to your device.I don't really know anything about BiTT but i will try and find out more,starting with your vid.Cheers.Jonny.

  • Quoting from the data sheet "TS2950/A & TS2951/A have other key additional feature of unregulated input voltage transient of -20V below ground

    (reverse battery)." I think this could allow some of the back spike to recharge the oscillators power source! Also the error amp in the IC requires a 1.23v refference. Since your supply voltage is 1.3 - 1.5v it is just barely enough to supply the refference and is likely why it oscillates. I'd love to see what the waveform looks on an oscilloscope.

  • @isub4real .Thanks for that info,you may be right..I would like to see a scope shot too but alas i don't have a scope but i wil get one in time,hopefully.Thanks for your interest and thoughts.Jonny

  • @jonnydavro I recently picked up a Tektronix 2225 scope from an ebay seller for $70 USD. Been having lots of fun with it since. I think I'd like to replicate your experiment, but I'm finding it difficult to find a US supplier that stocks the TS2950 regulator. Mouser has the TS2951 but it's a SOP-8 chip with features like adjustable output voltage. Where did you acquire your regulator?

  • Hi isub4real.I got my TS2950 from maplins in the UK but you can use other regulators.Lidmotor has replicated using NTE1904 3.3V from radio shack which worked great.He made some really nice vids.

    watch?v=Axsd1SGmnXc

    watch?v=4lQVtJtYM-s

    I have an old laptop which i will try and use as a scope.I will try and make some homemade probes when i get the time.If you try it,please let me know how you gott on.Thanks for your interest and happy experimenting.Jonny

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  • @jonnydavro BiTT= Bi-Toroid Transformer. I think I need to use diodes to feed some of the real power back to the input (to overcome resistance/heat-loss) while it draws only reactive power from it's own output (to power itself). So it sends the flux one way & the electrical diodes feedback the AC current one way also. It's supposed to consume reactive power (net consumption is zero) while outputting real power. Zero power factor at input. Power factor greater than zero at output.

  • ready for the free this energy circuit?

    please go viral. sorry not to hijack, new info concluding.

    "the free this energy circuit" you must give me credit, and you cannot sell, just teach.

    i always loved this video, great work..

  • @acmefixer1

    THEY are the geniuses who write the books that explain induction and density.

    You asked me what saturation was, I gave you the more common names (which are inaccurate descriptions).

    You are right though, you have been snookered.

  • @mrgalleria

    I'm not aware of who "they" are. I've examined some of Tesla's patents. Now I know I really am being snookered.

  • @acmefixer1

    1. Have you looked at photos of some of Tesla's coils?

    2. It can be a form of residual current, baseline current, background current, or density.

    I call it saturation, because I know what it is, and they don't.

    They make imaginary excuses for it's existence.

    Their excuses do not provide a real, plausible answer.

  • @mrgalleria

    Ive tried without success to learn more about this. I get the sense that either you know something that no one else knows about, or I'm being snookered.

  • @mrgalleria

    That over-saturation is measurable. Now, the bigger the pile of copper, that greater the quantity of over-saturation. As the current starts moving through the wire, it is instantly replaced from the heat in the air (which is current, that is heating the air). Notice some of those giant Tesla coils made with big rolls of thick copper, that Tesla made?

  • @acmefixer1

    If you pour water to the top of a cup until it is full, it is saturated, it cannot hold more. If the water starts to run down the sides, the water is still touching the cup, but the cup is over-saturated with water. Copper does the same, with electricity. A piece of copper wire sitting on the ground is saturated with heat, which is also current. Of course, all other things on the planet are saturated with heat too. But the copper has the special quality to over-saturate.

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