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2013-05-29 Thread Harry Veeder
@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, May 27, 2013 6:21 pm Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments Check out these 2 videos. It's a clear demonstration of how full power can be transferred to a resistive load without registering current on either clamp-on or in-line

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2013-05-27 Thread Sunil Shah
If you want to sneak DC into a system, you'd never get it passed a clamp meter, if you just use some diodes.  You'll need serious decoupling. I say serious, because the load is substantial and will quickly drain the reservoir capacitors. Any ripple on the DC will generate a varying magnetic

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2013-05-27 Thread Sunil Shah
or a scope and LOOK at the damn thing : D Anyway... next piece of equipment on the shopping list (for the next test) ought to be http://www.tortech.com.au/category/3-phase-isolation/ Plug everything into an isolation transformer. That should do it. .s

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2013-05-27 Thread Alain Sepeda
Right, that was a know problems with simple rectification and transformers that get magnetized. however you can clearly see it on the waveform. You see the asymetry of shape. impossible to miss. second point is that mixing two voltage, it will kill or trouble other instruments plugged (peak

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2013-05-27 Thread Alain Sepeda
by the way, not a bridge but a single wave (one diode) rectification... usual bridge does not cause asymetry, neither double wave. 2013/5/27 David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com Assume that you have a bridge rectifier in the blue box. This is followed by a filtering capacitor. The DC is then

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
. Dave -Original Message- From: Andrew andrew...@att.net To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, May 27, 2013 1:57 am Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments By direct admission of the team, posted here, it did not occur to them

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
hope this clears up some of the confusion that has been rampart. Dave -Original Message- From: Alain Sepeda alain.sep...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, May 27, 2013 8:25 am Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments

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2013-05-27 Thread Duncan Cumming
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, May 26, 2013 10:01 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments Almost. The power being fed to the heater exceeds that measured at the wall, because the sensor used (an AC current clamp) cannot sense

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2013-05-27 Thread Alain Sepeda
http://www.circuitstoday.com/half-wave-rectifiers *(ii)**Disadvantages:1.* The output current in the load contains,* in addition to dc component*, *ac components of basic frequency equal to that of the input voltage frequency*. Ripple factor is high and an elaborate filtering is, therefore,

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2013-05-27 Thread Duncan Cumming
My source was Hanno Essen, one of the authors. He answered a question asked by email by one Sterling D. Allan http://sterlingdallan.com/ / of Pure Energy Systems News/, reported earlier in this list. /4. Have you tried to test the output of the power supply to exclude that/ /also a DC current

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2013-05-27 Thread Duncan Cumming
Yes, Robin is correct. Duncan On 5/26/2013 8:08 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 26 May 2013 22:35:09 -0400 (EDT): Hi, This is a little different. A full bridge rectifier will allow for both halves of the AC current to pass, and so it should be

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2013-05-27 Thread Andrew
Word up Duncan - Rossi currently resides in Florida! You could call it The Power Sneaker. Andrew - Original Message - From: Duncan Cumming To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 10:59 AM Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments http://www.circuitstoday.com/half-wave-rectifiers (ii)Disadvantages:1. The output current in the load contains, in addition to dc component, ac components of basic frequency equal to that of the input voltage frequency. Ripple factor is high

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2013-05-27 Thread Andrew
Dave, there are a couple of things wrong with your analysis. First off, the insertion of an isolation capacitor between the main grid transformer and the plug takes care of your short circuit problem. And then there's the possibility of injection of RF also, also capacitatively coupled into the

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2013-05-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Duncan Cumming wrote: (Of course, DC rated Hall effect clamps are available but were not used in the demo, partially because Rossi appears to believe that an AC outlet will only deliver AC current - this is far from being the case). 1. People have been measuring DC amperage by measuring a

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2013-05-27 Thread Andrew
@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, May 26, 2013 11:08 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 26 May 2013 22:35:09 -0400 (EDT): Hi, This is a little different. A full bridge rectifier will allow for both

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, May 27, 2013 2:31 pm Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments Dave, there are a couple of things wrong with your analysis. First off, the insertion of an isolation capacitor between the main grid transformer and the plug

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2013-05-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Duncan Cumming spacedr...@cumming.infowrote: I don't think Rossi would travel to the USA to see such a demo. How about a YouTube video? Eric

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments What I am proposing is a lot simpler than that. No bridge rectifier, no capacitor, just a simple diode. I am saying that given a diode in series with a resistor, it is not possible to measure

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2013-05-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Andrew andrew...@att.net wrote: ** Dave, there are a couple of things wrong with your analysis. First off, the insertion of an isolation capacitor between the main grid transformer and the plug takes care of your short circuit problem. And then there's the

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
for the long periods associated with the PWM. Dave -Original Message- From: Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, May 27, 2013 3:09 pm Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:31

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2013-05-27 Thread Andrew
, May 27, 2013 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments Forget the RF for now. That is another annoyance. Please explain how much DC power will be propagated through that isolation capacitor. Putting these in place will ensure that no DC

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2013-05-27 Thread Andrew
No separate DC power source is necessary if Duncan's diode fudge is used. Andrew - Original Message - From: Eric Walker To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 12:09 PM Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments

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2013-05-27 Thread Berke Durak
Wouldn't harmonics show on the power analyzer? On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Duncan Cumming spacedr...@cumming.info wrote: With chopped DC, a clamp on ammeter will show the AC component. So if you had 0 to 1 amp chopped, the ammeter would show 0.5 amps peak AC. So you get a partial reading,

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2013-05-27 Thread Eric Walker
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Andrew andrew...@att.net wrote: ** No separate DC power source is necessary if Duncan's diode fudge is used. Yes, but the point is that you'd need to intentionally tamper with the mains to pull it off, i.e., it implies fraud, if I'm understanding the diode

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments You mean an annoyance like the advance of the perihelion of Mercury? :) OK, once again you furiously misunderstand. The isolation capacitor is in series between the grid transformer and the wall plug. Behind the wall plug

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
: Berke Durak berke.du...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, May 27, 2013 3:34 pm Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes Wouldn't harmonics show on the power analyzer? On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Duncan Cumming spacedr...@cumming.info wrote: With chopped

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
pm Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Andrew andrew...@att.net wrote: No separate DC power source is necessary if Duncan's diode fudge is used. Yes, but the point is that you'd need

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2013-05-27 Thread Duncan Cumming
Yes, Hall effect clamps are readily available, I am not disputing that. They used to suffer from drift problems, but these problems have pretty much been solved. The one that you show has a 3% accuracy and 8 digits of drift - not bad. The only info I have about Rossi came from a single post

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2013-05-27 Thread Rob Dingemans
Hi, On 27-5-2013 20:44, Andrew wrote: The measurement task has been made unnecessarily difficult by specifying 3-phase input to the control box. Normal single-phase input would suffice here, given the power levels. Not necessarily, if all three phases have a balanced load, then the current

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2013-05-27 Thread Joshua Cude
, what say you? Dave -Original Message- From: mixent mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, May 26, 2013 11:08 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments In reply to David

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2013-05-27 Thread Andrew
To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, May 26, 2013 11:08 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 26 May 2013 22:35:09 -0400 (EDT): Hi, This is a little different. A full bridge

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
power measurement. That is basic electronics. Dave -Original Message- From: Joshua Cude joshua.c...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, May 27, 2013 6:21 pm Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments Check out these 2 videos. It's a clear

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2013-05-27 Thread David Roberson
]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments Power from an AC source can only be extracted by the fundamental component of that source, period. An uneducated and completely incorrect statement like that disqualifies you, in my view, from making any further comments about the EE

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2013-05-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
Arrgh! This thread seems to have the Vo: Re Vo: problem, induced by the server. It seems that any character outside of the normal ascii set 0 - 9 a - Z triggers this. (This is a test message to see if the problem happens, responding to David Roberson.) - Jed

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2013-05-26 Thread Andrew
Indeed it has Dave. That's heartening. Andrew - Original Message - From: David Roberson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments I assume that your opinion of the test guys has

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2013-05-26 Thread Eric Walker
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Duncan Cumming spacedr...@cumming.infowrote: I am not trying to assert anything as fact. I am merely pointing out that a simple diode inside the controller box (to which access was forbidden by Rossi) COULD HAVE given the observed results. I am NOT saying that

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2013-05-26 Thread ChemE Stewart
It has already been proven that bullfrogs can fly, most likely caused from strings of vacuum energy. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals On Sunday, May 26, 2013, David Roberson wrote: How do we know that your diode trick will actually do what you think? You need to prove that this

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2013-05-26 Thread David Roberson
stories can be concocted just as with the CAT scam. Dave -Original Message- From: ChemE Stewart cheme...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, May 26, 2013 8:39 pm Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments It has already been proven

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2013-05-26 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Duncan Cumming spacedr...@cumming.infowrote: I am not trying to assert anything as fact. I am merely pointing out that a simple diode inside the controller box (to which access was forbidden by Rossi) COULD HAVE given the observed results. I am NOT

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2013-05-26 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
for Rossi to fake this are diminishing with each interview of the team… -Mark From: Andrew [mailto:andrew...@att.net] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 2:50 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments Indeed it has Dave. That's

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2013-05-26 Thread ChemE Stewart
Stewart cheme...@gmail.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'cheme...@gmail.com'); To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'vortex-l@eskimo.com'); Sent: Sun, May 26, 2013 8:39 pm Subject: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments It has already been

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2013-05-26 Thread Duncan Cumming
No, it does not. What happens is that the diode rectifies the mains to DC, and the DC is not sensed by the clamp-type current meter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_clamp No tampering with the mains itself would be necessary if one were to use a diode. Duncan On 5/26/2013 5:34 PM, Eric

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2013-05-26 Thread Duncan Cumming
Almost. The power being fed to the heater exceeds that measured at the wall, because the sensor used (an AC current clamp) cannot sense the direct current being drawn from the wall socket. Some people find the difference between current and voltage confusing. What I am saying here is that if

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2013-05-26 Thread David Roberson
-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, May 26, 2013 10:01 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments Almost. The power being fed to the heater exceeds that measured at the wall, because the sensor used (an AC current clamp

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2013-05-26 Thread Jones Beene
From: Duncan Cumming So is it your position that a current clamp without a Hall effect unit can measure DC? Mine is that it cannot. Did you actually check the PCE site? It looks to me like all the current clamps on the PCE power analyzer site measure both AC and DC

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2013-05-26 Thread mixent
In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 26 May 2013 22:35:09 -0400 (EDT): Hi, This is a little different. A full bridge rectifier will allow for both halves of the AC current to pass, and so it should be measured as little different to a purely resistive load. However a single diode will

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2013-05-26 Thread a.ashfield
Duncan Cumming No, it does not. What happens is that the diode rectifies the mains to DC, and the DC is not sensed by the clamp-type current meter. What would the clamp on meter show with chopped DC?

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2013-05-26 Thread David Roberson
]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes power measurments In reply to David Roberson's message of Sun, 26 May 2013 22:35:09 -0400 (EDT): Hi, This is a little different. A full bridge rectifier will allow for both halves of the AC current to pass, and so it should be measured as little different

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2013-05-26 Thread Alan Goldwater
That is a different instrument. The one used in the tests (PCE-830 http://www.industrial-needs.com/technical-data/power-anlayser-PCE-830.htm) does not measure DC. On 5/26/2013 7:53 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Did you actually check the PCE site? It looks to me like all the current clamps on the

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2013-05-26 Thread Andrew
By direct admission of the team, posted here, it did not occur to them to check for a DC level change. - Original Message - From: David Roberson To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Re: [Vo]:Torbjörn Hartman describes