I Found the following explanation on another list somewhat helpful in establishing these differences;
I think it would be helpful to define the terms "voltage source" and "current source" should a discussion of this nature arise again. A "voltage source" has the following characteristics: - infinite output current capability (an inifinite current will flow through a short-circuit slammed across its terminals) - zero internal impedance (the load dictates the current drawn from the supply) - always presents the same (design) voltage at its terminals regardless of the load connected across it. Needless to say this is an unattainable ideal but one that can be mimicked by active circuitry up to some current limit where its characteristics then deviate from the ideal. For a practical voltage source, this limit is a "compliance" limit - the supply complies with the ideal up to this limit. A "current source" has these characteristics: - infinite voltage capability (an infinite voltage will appear across the terminals if there is no load) - infinite internal impedance (the load dictates what the terminal voltage will be) - always forces the same current through a load regardless of the load impedance. Also an unattainable ideal. Witness the requirement to deliver and infinite output voltage with no load. Now as I had mentioned I was trying to make CS, by the method of using currents derived by bipolar resonances. This is a very expensive approach as at 60 hz, since it normally requires two huge air core inductors each set to resonance. I found that the AC input to a CS process of such a current to be problematic at best, and it gave the delusion that a voltage drop was incuring from start to finish. If we had to classify the approach, we might say that it "sort of resembles" a current source, because the current doesnt change much but the voltage across the CS water cell does. Since the AC approach did not fair well, I went back to the drawing board, and I will take Ivan's advise to place resistors across the resonant current source, and to compare equal resistive equivalent loads of CS water cells, so that a comparison can be made to determine the initial starting resistance. Today I tried the first experiments with instead sending a pulsed 60 hz DC across the CS. It is "pulsed" because I did not employ a filter capacitor on the DC output from the full wave rectification, which again is sourced from a bipolar resonance, which for this scenario resembles a "constant" current souce. It is not actually such a constant current source at all, but for the CS as a load, it resembles one. Unfortunately this first experiment with DC was a disaster. I took the last glass of water from a gallon of Wall mart distilled water. Now I am wondering about that dang water, as the results seemed like I must have had a lot of contamination coming from somewhere! Formerly when these things were first started I had obtained some homemade "John Ellis" ozonated DW that must have been contaminated, and in that circumstance the resistance of the sample was far lower than what it should have been. That process uses steam going over a ozone bulb, this is pictured at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/files/WAT/Dsc00248.jpg The bulb goes into the left smaller hemispherical chamber, but if the larger reservoir developes a vapor lock on the hose leading to its ordinary product which he call "energized" tap water, you will end up with tap water becoming mixed with the distilled , because then the entire water level rises so that you no longer have just steam entering that designated tube, and it is becoming mixed with ordinary tap water. A back tarnish was then developing on the coins using his water product. After then going to Wall Mart's distilled water, the black tarnish never appeared again, the resistance was much higher, and only a gray tint developed on the coins. Now today I tried a 4 diode set up, (full wave rectifier) between the CS and the resonant current source. If found that the lowest voltage I could obtain was near the 30 volt level. I then turned up the voltage source to give about 90 volts pulsed DC appearing across the coins, giving an AC conduction of 3.8 ma entering the diode system. About 25 minutes later I came back to find that the voltage had dropped back down to the 30 volt level, with almost 4 ma entering the diode system. Huh I thought, thats pretty remarkable. But then I was horrified to see what was in the water, shown here; First Try of CS made from pulsed DC from BRS high induction coil system http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/files/MED/Dsc00454.jpg Long black strands of silver oxide? were forming on the coin where that polarity allows. I wouldnt let my dog drink that stuff! Next I will try a cap filter, so that the source appears more like a battery would, and a special option also exists here where we can select a capacity that would be resonant to 120 pulses /sec, when the inductance of the coils is also considered part of the equation. To end here I thought I might show some info showing how this bipolar resonance is set up, using a case example of 480 hz driven by a converted AC alternator; The circuit I use is basically simple, but in applications at 60 hz would be very costly. Let me give an example using hardware store 14 gauge coils as shown at the schematic http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/files/MARX/DSC00079.JPG It is basically just two inversely phased series resonances, with their oppositely made voltage rises used as the source of high voltage. The endings of these voltage rises (in the middle of each left and right side resonance)are shown in the circuit as this midpoint path, that (can) exhibit voltage rise. (Schematic is basically the same schematic used for a DC full wave rectification, only the forward and reverse based diodes are instead replaced by inductors and capacitors set to be in resonance at the input frequency.) The particular application shown in this jpeg was for an alternator input at 480 hz. Frequency is everything with these circuits, and at the 60 hz wall voltage the components become ungodly in their costs. The two high induction coils I use for the 60 hz application are very expensive coils of some 60 henry, about 80 lb coils of 20,000 winds of 23 gauge wire. The amount of current obtained between the coil systems is considered the "current limited amount" of amperage available from the system upon short of the midpoint path. Let me show the difference between open and closed configuations for the alternator resonances at 480 hz, using ten of these 14 gauge coils for each side made as inversely phased dual series resonances. At open circuit the outside components act to deliver a bipolar resonant rise of voltage; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/files/IRC/Dsc00402.jpg shows a 14.4 volt stator creating 703 volts with a ~ 1.5 A draw at 480 hz, by using inversely phased series resonances as the source of resonant voltage rise. Now we can short that voltage rise to see the difference. Then it becomes a figure 8 tank circuit with resonant rise of amperage vs that being inputed; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/files/IRC/Dsc00403.jpg shows a 15.35 volt stator only inputing some 1.83 ma, but becoming some 34 ma across the midpoint path. That pathway contains ~ double the ~ 16 and 17 ma found on the sides of the circuit. Similar to the DC full wave rectifier, we find double the current through the midpoint (rectified) pathway then we would find on the individial diodes themselves. So here we can say the a 15.35 volt stator can enable a current limited supply of 34 ma across the midpoint pathway, but it is also a voltage source that will rise in accordance to what load is placed across it, and it will rise as far as some 700 volts if the load itself became infinite resistance at this voltage input of application by the alternator. Thus the whole assembly can act as a sort of resonant transformer. The advantage of this concept is that we can produce voltage rise without a transformer, as with the rise of frequency applications, ferromagnetic transformers start becoming inneffective at higher frequencies, thus we still have a mechanism for transforming voltages upwards by instead using a bipolar voltage rise created by resonance, instead of the more familiar concept of creating a voltage rise by the turns ratio of a ferromagnetic transformer. Basic principles here are; 1) First we need to find the capacity needed to resonate. Use Thompson resonance formula R(f)= 1/[2 pi* sq rt (LC)] Reactance formulas are also useful, and can be used to find the same info. At resonance the reactances are made equal, and put in series for series resonance. If we run a short between the voltage rises of a bipolar series resonance; the circuit then becomes current limited to twice the amount of conduction that would occur as if the circuit was instead a parallel resonance consisting of the two side coil sets in series, or what is termed a tank circuit. Shorting the voltage rises actually makes a figure 8 tank resonance. For use of these 10 mh coils at 60 hz , one would also need an ungodly amount of capacitance, and if the connections accidentally came open at the midpoint, one would have an ungodly amount of amperage developing. The CS water cell of course in my CS trials goes as a load in between these resonant voltage rises, but I use 60 henry coils of 1000 ohm resistance, set to 60 hz wall frequency resonance. These 10 mh coils at 60 hz would be fairly useless anyways, since the voltage rise would be very small, so let me use my example using 60 henry coils. The coils have a reactive amperage consumption of ~5 ma when run by the wall voltage. We then find the capacity needed to resonate; Inductive reactance X(L) = 2 pi * f * L Capacitive reactance X(C) = 1 /(2 pi* f * C) X(L) = X(C) at resonance After we find that capacity for resonance to be about about .12 uf, and it will pull the same 5 ma. This consists of a test for the resonance, to measure each reactive branch separately to see if they pull equal amperages from the source AC. We put them in series to find how much farther the reactive current measurement has gone up. For these coils each side goes up about 15 times times the intitial 5 ma. This means the voltage has gone up 15 times to accomplish 15 times more amperage conduction. This is made on each side as oppositely made voltage rises, so the total (bipolar) voltage rise between the coils becomes 30 times what is inputed. If we short out this voltage rise, we find the original amount of reactive current, but at a much reduced input amperage, making it a figure 8 tank circuit, that is current limited across the midpoint short to some 5 ma, given a 120 volt AC wall voltage input. Sincerely HDN ===== Tesla Research Group; Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances http://groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>