@Linda...I tested it with an multimeter....power supply V output is regulated by a 30V cap....Never goes above 27v...So believe whatever you want. It's BEMF spike that powers arc...SIMPLE AS THAT...this ENERGY IS FREE....made by "near" instantaneous change....Thats the fact of the matter.
I haven't read all the other posts...and am late for class will read up later

Now, I am not saying anything bad about anyone here, I get why you must challenge/question things, it is how to prove/disprove stuff, after all we were all taught differently in school. I am a mechanical mind(who is just now learning digital electronics) and that is why I can see "how" this works(pure physics)....however, I don't have time to explain/defend my findings here, I am working on a deadline for another project and I have classes every weekday. So I will probably not come here so often to defend/explain my tests...Take them or leave them, I really don't care. I don't intend to become famous...blah, blah, blah...I truly just wanted to show people there "may" be another side of electricity that was frozen out of the market long ago. I would encourage people to start reading Tesla, and watch the Bearden videos..better yet buy his books,....He has a great new book out.....Awesome!!!....but ya, I might pop in time to time to see if anyone has any questions/ideas for me...But, I would encourage you to just buy the power supply off of Ebay.....Or just start taking them apart...Once you know what to look for, you will see that many are constructed this way and can be used for the sharp off spikes...If you have a scope it's that much easier...look for either a sharp Ton...or sharp  Toff (you will most likely find sharp Toff).....but here's the thing....it needs to pulsed by a sensing loop.....this makes synchronization easier!

Models that have worked so far: ADP-25HB, ADP-16B (I believe it's 16B)
Basically all Delta ADP power supplies...and an HP worked after I pulled out the ground....but experiment...Go to your local electronics recycler and look for rectangular power supplies...in the 14-30V .8-1.2amp  range..open em up and right away you will know...(you will see a large cap....a small step down transformer....and then a small cap on the output...it will also have an input choke, and an output bifilar choke.....So get some power supplies and take some measurements yourself (I have nothing to prove here)....You may be very surprised!!!

@Linda...I tested it with an multimeter....power supply V output is regulated by a 30V cap....Never goes above 27v...So believe whatever you want. It's BEMF spike that powers arc...SIMPLE AS THAT...this ENERGY IS FREE....made by "near" instantaneous change....Thats the fact of the matter.
I haven't read all the other posts...and am late for class will read up later

It sounds as though you are not interested in subjecting your "facts of the matter" to any testing or to considering any theory except your own to explain what you observe.  Why do you bother to present your experiments, then?

All I am telling you, and others are saying the same thing, is that your demonstration could be much more convincing and get a lot more people interested if you simplified it by using a battery instead of a switchmode power supply and it still worked.  That seems pretty simple, and since you are already in posession of these magical beads, why not do the simple battery/bead/motor video demonstration and really get the interest going?  Lots of us would really like to see that, if you could do it.

Linda

I can understand the frustration of RadiantEnRg, he was asked to participate here, and present, and sometimes people can come off as a little critical of others. I think it takes understanding on both sides.

Thank you though for comming here and posting your results, im sure there are alot of people who are "browsers" who do not post, but are glad still that you are sharing with us. Please keep doing so, and dont let people get to you, I even know people who have gotton almost jelous of others progress, simply because it was not their own idea.

I believe one could use a battery, but you would have to use a 555 timer and "enginner" a biased ac/dc signal with sharp wave forms. But........i think that if the bead is acting as a negative resistor (spark gap) then the wave forms that come off of it should resemble this.

I gave a link a bit back to a guy that made negative resistance resonators by placing a pin against a slightly corroded piece of metal (he used heat to oxidise the surface a bit I think) with a dc input he was able to get frequencies in the audible range and hooked speakers up to the circuit to proove it to himself. im quite sure there is nothing special about the bead....its just a spark gap.

A little story to explain some things to younger people.

When I was fresh EE graduate a long time ago, I moved to my first job and asked a newly made friend if he could lend me a power supply so I could align an FM transceiver that I was converting from commercial to Ham radio use.  This friend was a top-notch Engineer with decades of experience and also a Ham radio operator.  After a while I became very frustrated because the normally simple alignment was giving me a lot of problems.  After quite some time, I came to the conclusion that at certain voltage settings his power supply was oscillating and even worse the frequency was around 455 kHz exactly the IF frequency.  He was extremely embarassed, but I rubbed it in anyway, since a really good Engineer would have put a small resistor or ferrite bead on the base of the series pass transistor.

I know of another case where a young Engineer designed an audio intercom system that was used overseas on a top secret project.  Lo and behold, the intercom was oscillating in the FM radio band and all conversations could be heard on a normal FM radio.  So you can see, whether young or old, you can always learn.  I am an elder and I learn many things every day, in spite of 40+ years of professional engineering experience.

Dear RadianNRG, please do not take any comments as being negative, any criticism is positive and is meant to help and clarify the situation.  Maybe you think older, more experienced participants and Engineers are old foggies and don't understand.  I hope the above examples will make it clear that we are all working for the same goal and trying to multiply our individual intelligence through co-operative discussions on a non-emotional, intellectual basis.  There is a big difference between negative criticism and positive criticism.  I have seen absolutely no negative criticism in any postings.

Perhaps one of the most important things I have learned over the years, is that you are blind without an oscilloscope.  You can make a quickie measurement of a power supply with a multimeter, but you should be aware that this does not tell you very much.  In this particular case, only an oscilloscope will show if the regulated power supply is oscillating due to external influences.  An Engineer without an oscilloscope is like a pianist without a piano.

Having a couple of batteries around is always a good idea.  One time I was breadboarding a linear RF fiber optic prototype and was having problems.  The RF preamp had about 40 dB gain and the fiber optic link another 15 dB, at the same frequency and from the same power line.  I disconnected the power to the preamp and powered it from a battery and the problem disappeared.  An additional RF choke and by-pass capacitor in the RF preamp solved all troubles. 
I bought a couple of auto accessory 7Ah battery packs with cigar lighter jack, modified them with additional bannana jacks and keep them charged up.  One for 12V or two in series for 24V.  They come in very handy; would not like to be without them.

In any case, my sample of pyroclay should arrive sometime and I will try a few experiments myself.  Houston, we see molten lava down there........

Regards, Earl

In later tests I bypassed the smoothing cap and used pulsed rectified DC(thats why it fried)...However, in all of my videos(the original ones) I used the actual output, which never saw anything more then 27V, due to stepdown xformer. Also the max amperage was 2amps....the voltage has a limit, and it seems the only thing I could "de-regulate" was the amperage, because it was only suppose to supply .87amps. So to just clarify, pulsed DC power supply, /|/|/|/|/|/|......and coil, thats and a lil manual "coaxing" is all you will need to tap BEMF potential.

Hi All,
I just tried this with just a battery.

I had 8 pieces of AA MiMh cells in series with a total of 11Volts freshly charged.

So then I used a few different coils in series with this battery and going to
a 12 Volts DC motor.

I then used different contact materials like pencil graphite ( which has clay in it !)
on copper or pencil graphite on iron or copper on iron, etc...
but always the direct connection did make the motor run
faster and when I drew an arc at the contact point,
always the motor did run slower,
cause much of the energy was then used up in the arcing
putting out heat and RF energy.

Okay, I didn?t try pyroclay cause I don?t have it,
but now I believe, user RadiantNRG has just jammed his
power supply with the arcing and thus it produced more
output voltage.

Please user RadiantNRG try it yourself again with a 12 Volt
battery and let us know the results.
If you don?t have a 12 Volt battery and don?t want to buy one.
well, at least try to get from somewhere a Kill-a-Watt meter,
so you can measure the input power into your power supply
and see, if you heat the pyroclay bead and your motor runs
faster, if you draw also much more input power ?

As long as these tests have not been done, one can really not say
anything about this...

Now I am going to try the other circuit with the transformer pulsing...


Regards, Stefan.

I agree completely.  It seems like so many of these stories start out claiming one straightforward effect that seems anomalous but by the time four or five posts are made, the story has branched out so many ways with so many added elements, new conditions and various theories and arguments that the original idea is lost in a fog. 

Science moves in little steps, each one carefully stripped of all presumptions and assumptions.  Every step involves testing and observing and trying to explain the observed results first using known conventional phenomena.  Here, in most cases, too many variables remain undefined and non-conventional conclusions are leapt to without ever even stating the setup and observations clearly.  It's impossible to replicate such undefined experiments, not to mention pointless. 

I still don't know what the original setup was on the "speeding motor" experiment and I don't think any two readers share the same vision.   I don't think there was an external coil in it, was there?

Linda