HUH?????

[CDRIVE]

Stumbled upon this youtube vid. Can't wait for the comments from our members.

Chris

 

[Gryd3]

Stumbled upon this youtube vid. Can't wait for the comments from our members.

Chris

Troll physics... *sigh*
His 'control' test began to upload much higher, but looked like it got 'throttled' and jumped down quite a bit.
In addition, I'm not aware of anyone who can replace a network cable that fast. I could recreate this test at home and get the same results by enabling and disabling my QoS rules on my router.
I truly want to smack people who do this. Many people don't understand and will actually believe this. This garbage ends up hurting the population...

 

[Arouse1973]

Lol Lol, what a laugh, he is very convincing, but I dont think I will be trying this.
Adam

 

[Anon_LG]

I have just read the comments, he does warn people. Even so, I agree this kind of thing devalues human knowledge and creates myths.

My disgust,

 

[shrtrnd]

Watch it, he'll probably be my next boss.
Imagine what the guy went through who said he was going to transmit telegraph key signals wirelessly.

 

[Arouse1973]

Watch it, he'll probably be my next boss.
Imagine what the guy went through who said he was going to transmit telegraph key signals wirelessly.

Nice to have a boss without a clue, think of all the goodies you could get for just saying it's to run an LED VNAs are a must when working on all circuits
Adam

 

[shrtrnd]

Never been that lucky.
Every boss I've had since the 1970's has been a 'management' person whose priority is his budget.
None of them have had an electronics background. The way of the business world now you know.
We the willing, led by the unknowing, have been doing the impossible, for the ungrateful.
We have done so much with so little for so long,
That we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

 

[Arouse1973]

Never been that lucky.
Every boss I've had since the 1970's has been a 'management' person whose priority is his budget.
None of them have had an electronics background. The way of the business world now you know.
We the willing, led by the unknowing, have been doing the impossible, for the ungrateful.
We have done so much with so little for so long,
That we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.

Lol yeah same here.
Adam

 

[hevans1944]

@CDRIVE thank you for not posting any more COS like this.

 

[CDRIVE]

@CDRIVE thank you for not posting any more COS like this.

Hey, lighten up! That's why it's posted in the Electronics "Chat" section. Technobable can be humorous.

Chris

 

[hevans1944]

Hey, lighten up! That's why it's posted in the Electronics "Chat" section. Technobable can be humorous.

Chris

Are you sayin' I am becoming a crotchety old man? Mebbe so, because I failed to notice where you posted! Humor is good and Technobable is right up there with psychobable on my list of favorites. I actually enjoyed his pathetic attempt to "prove" his concept on paper using Gauss' Law and Kirchoff's Laws.

 

[pebe]

With that sort of psychobabble, he would make a successful politician.

 

[BGB]

With that sort of psychobabble, he would make a successful politician.

just encountered this:

watched part of it, was unable to make any real sense of whatever he was going on about...

 

[CDRIVE]

just encountered this:

watched part of it, was unable to make any real sense of whatever he was going on about...

The guy has just discovered that magnets can repel each other. Who-duh thunk it??

 

[BGB]

The guy has just discovered that magnets can repel each other. Who-duh thunk it??

possibly, but he was also saying stuff, but it didn't really make much sense to me what he was going on about... but, yeah, everything being shown was basically just stuff with magnets though.

 

[CDRIVE]

possibly, but he was also saying stuff, but it didn't really make much sense to me what he was going on about... but, yeah, everything being shown was basically just stuff with magnets though.

It would appear that his aim is to design a frictionless bearing using magnets to levitate a generator rotor. My guess is that he thinks that a frictionless bearing system equates to ... uh, the (ever elusive) perpetual motion machine. What seems to escape his sparsely furnished mind is that the "electrical load" on the generator contributes to the vast majority of the drag, which can also be translated into friction. Good bearings contribute very little to rotor friction.

Chris

 

[BGB]

It would appear that his aim is to design a frictionless bearing using magnets to levitate a generator rotor. My guess is that he thinks that a frictionless bearing system equates to ... uh, the (ever elusive) perpetual motion machine. What seems to escape his sparsely furnished mind is that the "electrical load" on the generator contributes to the vast majority of the drag, which can also be translated into friction. Good bearings contribute very little to rotor friction.

Chris

yeah. when connected up, an alternator, as if by magic, takes a fair bit of force to turn, while a disconnected alternator can be turned relatively easily (you gently turn it, and is spins freely for a little while...).

then if course, there is all the magic goes into making induction motors work...


had seen a video where someone had gone and drilled some holes and put neodymium magnets in a shaded pole motor, and used it as a generator. had a random idea that maybe this could be done without the magnets, provided the right electronics (you would feed a little current into the system while the motor is being spun, such as by wind, and possibly you could get slightly more power back from the induced back-emf).

a possible application would be making a wall of box fans (mounted on fence posts), with a small computer fan used as a wind-detector (wind will induce a voltage in the computer fan windings, which may trigger the control electronics to start pulsing the big motors).

granted, conversion efficiency would likely be pretty low vs the use of magnetic rotors.

 

[hevans1944]

A wall of box fans mounted on fence posts? What would the neighbors say? OTOH, if I can throw a good-bye kiss to Dayton Power and Light, maybe K-Mart will have some on sale this year that I can buy before word of this gets around...

 

[BGB]

A wall of box fans mounted on fence posts? What would the neighbors say? OTOH, if I can throw a good-bye kiss to Dayton Power and Light, maybe K-Mart will have some on sale this year that I can buy before word of this gets around...

yeah, but no idea about output or efficiency.
could be smaller and cheaper than a wind-turbine at least, and maybe good if a person's yard gets a lot of wind.

could do a small-scale experiment, have an old fan, but the path to get to it (outside) is currently flooded. would also need to mount it up on something and run wires.