@Luc: Nice video!
Thanks for posting that.
Now where's all the top notch scientists lining up to show us why that can't happen according to electromagnetic theory?
... all busy ordering neo magnets I bet!

@nightlife: yes, I thought of that too. Perhaps not on the same hunch though...
I can't find the info now, but some years back I read the research papers of an inventor,
I believe it was a German physicist or one with a germanic name, who had worked on
electrolysis and had found that he could use iron permanent magnets instead of electrodes;
according to his experiment reports, he simply inserted the opposite poles of an iron
bar magnet into the water and gas bubbles would form and bubble up.
Now of course that is really funky and I have not been able to replicate his claims using my
own ferrite and neo magnets, but the idea of using Lucs neo-assisted-stimulated-spark
in an electrolysis unit is very interesting.... Just imagine we could just drastically boost
gas production by merely adding some neos...

http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=US4747925&F=0

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Hi gotoluc, I watched your last video and I was wondering if that concept would be a good way for splitting hydrogen from water? I think it would make for a good experiment.

Hi nightlife, thanks for looking

I do have my HHO cell handy and I do try it every time I have a different coil setup but to date I have not found anything special ...keep in mind that I'm not interested in brute force HHO, so my cell only has distilled water in it.

Luc

Yes, that's the guy!

Thanks for that link Kator01!

I tried the autoignition coil test, the result is that it is far far easier getting an arc (or at greater gaps only possible) with the magnet.

But sadly it seemed mostly boringly conventional, Dave mentioned that the conduction seemingly had to be through the magnet to get the effect, but I found I can get arc's with the wire not in the circuit but merely near two wires being momentarily contacted, it looks very much like it is just a case of the magnet blowing the arc out which leads to a swifter collapse and hence a greater emf.

The autoignition coil must have had a lower inductance because the length of time the coil was shorted for seemed unimportant.

I can make a video of all of this if anyone wants to see it.

Incidentally I can see the same criticism being leveled at most/all the results JLN found with the Vallee stuff if it includes spark gaps. (note: not all of his stuff did though)

Now Stefan's negative current sounds interesting, but I can't see me really investigating Newman much.
Clearly spark gaps can do very interesting things but based on what I have found so far this isn't. (maybe Dave and Luc have found some thing not explained by these issues, incidentally I can't get Luc's bouncing wire effect, it just welds it's self to the magnet on contact)

BTW Luc did you find that it made any difference if the magnet was on the negative or positive side of the circuit? I had the magnet on the negative side as your diagram shows.

Hi aether22,  if you never got the wire to self pulse on the magnet then you have not seen anyting because this whole effect is based on that. You need to pulse the positive side of the DC and if the wire sticks to the magnet then flip the magnet around or pulse the other side. Also, don't pulse the top or bottom of the magnet pulse in the center between the two poles.

Try that and let me know.

Luc

Just to clarify I should wire it up as in the diagram, the - is connected to the transformer and magnet, and the + is connected to the bouncing wire?

Dave mentioned that the conduction seemingly had to be through the magnet to get the effect, but I found I can get arc's with the wire not in the circuit but merely near two wires being momentarily contacted, it looks very much like it is just a case of the magnet blowing the arc out which leads to a swifter collapse and hence a greater emf.

I'm sorry but I do not find that description very clear.
Are you saying you got larger sparks without connecting the magnet to either of the electrodes,
or are you saying you managed to get sparks from a wire that was not connected to the
electrical circuit?
The first I can understand as a variation on Lucs experiment, but it sounds like you're actually
saying the last, although it is unclear to me which wire was not connected to what in the circuit...
The circuit at the neo contact point has 2 wires, right? So what's this third wire you're talkign about?

I probably just misunderstood you but it's always better to ask then to start yapping about
things that were unclear to you.

I can get arc's with the wire magnet not in the circuit but merely near two wires being momentarily contacted

I said wire where I meant magnet.