What is the deal on the captor?
MileHigh
Since you asked..
Yes, I can explain how the captor transformer works in a few words.
"It is a saturable magnetic power regulator designed to tap into the utility power company
environmental ground return power circuits using a limited but independent ground rod array
design specially by Clarence."
(o) Once working, for power companies return current, it can seamlessly work for supposed
Telluric currents.
(o) It is a carefully designed unit that will support the above carefully designed ground rod
array and intercept certain specific amounts energy that it makes available to the user.
(o) Only certain countries utility companies transmit single phase power through
the ground and other use balanced duplex wiring, in the balanced country cases the captor
function will not work except by other telluric currents.
(o) Its design parameters have been set in a certain way to self limit any internal damage
levels, the whole unit will need to be redesigned if that ever required to make changes.
(o) The voltage functions of the captor and array are low 0->2Volts because array-to-array
impedance resistance is rather low. The captor then also works on rather high *current*
and steps up the voltage 1-to-100 to get to the utility company voltage level for the
internal voltage levels while the current in the ferrite material limits magnetic field maximums,
limiting amplitudes.
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Balance of System, test, safety etc.
Perhaps Clarence is being excessively positive about the results obtained by his
system longer term in running operation, we don't know whether this is true or not.
The efficiency of the *inverter* X times the efficency of the *battery charger* is high.
Therefore most any excess energy from the captor will extend the self running loop lifetime
with energy that excites the captor loop. Addition high level appliance load can be expected
to shrink the amount of time the available to the system before it needs recharging.
There is some "systems stuff" that could be used to contribute to the utility of this system
if there is not always sufficient energy in the captor to keep the battery charged. We need
to have a "stiff upper lip" as we examine the following data result objectively..
What we need to determine for this system to be of use..(o) What is the average lifetime of the battery charger in terms of system operation -
how often is it killed by captor loop power supply overvoltage pulses? Hopefully it
is a "long time" but if it isn't there are some things that can be done to help if the
answer is.. "too often".
(o) What is the Quality of the power derived from the captor loop. This is simple...use
a utility line power line quality monitoring instrument that shows, voltage spikes
brown outs, bulges, etc. This does not have to be the most complex instrument
instrument for recovering VARs, etc. We need someone who will put all this data
online so we can all see what we are up against longer term.
(o) What is the minimum hold up capacity on low voltage required for operation , how much
battery Ah is required to keep the captor loop running at a minimum. I suggest doing this
using a supercapacitor bank. Funny, but I noticed user lasersaber was on here, perhaps
we could borrow his battery supercapacitor bank, to do exact calculations.
(o) Is the IRheatlamp turning off at times? Means insufficient input energy to keep the captor
loop running all the time. This suggest more battery capacity, would be advisable.
(o) Find out what the maximum capacity of the captor is to supply power. This is an important
future number because it represents a major design target parameter. The easiest way
to get this number is to guarantee galvanic isolation and sell the excess back to power
company for the duration of the test to find out how much is actually available. Requires
instrumentation measurement of low voltage.
I suggest designing the IRheatlamp into a dump load controller to suck excess energy out
of the captor when voltage gets too high. This would provide more input margin for the battery
charger.
We need the ability to discuss problems ahead of time (because we are smart), make a
document, and have one person perform a test as to what the group wants to see, and to distribute
the back the desired test results. This is the path to group learning and understanding of function
by principles. Simple construction techniques of post application of more "good ideas" doesn't work.
..S..MarkSCoffman