Testatika

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Perpetual motion machine: Testatika
Disciplines:	physics and electrical engineering
Core Tenets:	Device hand started and, then, powered directly from the device's generated electricity and the environmental radiant energy.
Year Proposed:	c. 1960s
Original Proponents:	Paul Suisse Baumann
Current Proponents:	Researchers of "free energy", energy which may be directly utilized (and returned) by a device from the surroundings
Theory violation:	Second law of thermodynamics
Testatika is reportedly a perpetual motion machine. Such machines violate the known laws of physics. Claims of the development of such devices are considered pseudoscience by most scientists.

The Testatika is an electromagnetic generator based on the 1898 Pidgeon electrostatic machine which includes an inductance circuit, a capacitance circuit, and a thermionic rectification valve. Allegedly a perpetual motion machine, the Testatika resembles in some respects a Wimshurst machine. It was built by German engineer, Paul Suisse Baumann, and promoted by a Swiss community, the Methernithans. The Testatika is also known as the Swiss M-L converter or Thesta-Distatica.

Contents 1 Description 1.1 Electrostatic generator 1.2 Auxiliary circuits 2 Operation and ultilization 3 History 4 See also 5 Further reading 6 Related patents 7 External links and references

[edit] Description

The specific working principles in the Testatika are unknown. From various sources, Testatika reportedly ultilizes design features of the electrostatic Pidgeon machine. The Testatika seems to possess an inductance circuit, a capacitance circuit, and a thermionic rectification valve. Devices heretofore seen have not used semiconductors or transistors. The entire circuit has been divided in two parts:

1. An electrostatic generator; and,
2. Auxiliary circuits (inductances, capacitances, and rectification)

[edit] Electrostatic generator

The Testatika ultilizes the 1898 Pidgeon machine setup ^[1] (apparent from the position of the neutralizing rods and how the charges are accumulated; the fixed inductors are positioned in such a way that there is an increased induction effect) and charges parallel pads via air gaps. Steel grilles (or corrugated sectored) disks and other collecting pads (or 'tasten' antennae keys) are used in a process of variable capacitance electrostatic generation. The disks have a rotational speed of just 60 rpm (varying to 15 rpm). Each disk is in close proximity. One disk represents the clouds, the other disk represents the earth. The front clear perspex disc ('cloud' disc; positive charge) and the back dark disc ('ground' disc; negative charge) corresponds to the triboelectric series. The discs may also be doped with paramagnetic particles.

Two horseshoe magnets with metalised-perspex laminated blocks alternated with copper and aluminium plates form, what various sources call, "electron cascade generators". The electron cascade (or avalanche effect) is a chain reaction forming 'free electrons'. Insulated wire is also wound around the horseshoe magnets (which may also be in a bifilar configuration) for induction purposes.

[edit] Auxiliary circuits

The Testatika converts static energy into an electromotive force by means of its oscillation circuit and valve rectifiers. Electric current oscillations is controlled by coupling a thermionic rectifier valve, cylinders capacitors, and natural resistance. As the electromagnetic circuit oscillates, the oscillations are modulated through transformers and, ultimately, rectified into DC pulses. Hermann Plauson, the Estonian inventor, describes such methods to convert static power. Testatika's thermionic rectifying valve has an anode mesh-plate, a coiled copper grid, a glowing (heated) cathode wire running horizontally across its centre, and the associated wires.

Two outside cylinders (with up to 20 concentric layers of perforated sheet) are utilized and the connection of each separate secondary winding may be based on the "disruptive discharge coil" devised by Nikola Tesla. The cylinders, at the sides, act partially as capacitors. This concentric condenser configuration develops a pulse forming network. Each cylinder has a core of 6 hollow donut-ring anisotropic ferrite magnets with plastic spacers for air gaps to form a transformer, also. A central input rod (or tube) connects at the bottom to a stack of inter-linked pancake coils (wound with the secondary outside and the primary inside). One transformer is wired to output negative and the other transformer is wired to output positive polarity with respect to magnetic reluctance gaps. Each is connected from the pancake coil secondaries to a brass ring via a brass screw terminal. The use of aluminium shielding mesh and solid copper shielding sheets are used to minimize stray electrostatic charges.

Two chokes assemblies are in the upright double glass tubes possessing spirally turned aluminium strip (with electrostatic shields). The tubes are two-thirds the tower height. The glass tube are terminated at the top with right-angled brass rods connecting with the rectifier. The wooden base has alternate layering of perforated metal plates and insulating plates forming a storage capacitor.

[edit] Operation and ultilization

According to various sources, the Testatika first oscillates and then rectifies generated power as an RLC circuit. The electrical oscillations are made by the generator components. The electrical oscillations (AC) are turned into continuous current (DC) by the rectification. Replicated devices were hand started and, then, powered directly from the device's generated electricity. By this description (and without further components), a Testatika would be a perpetual motion machine.

[edit] History

The machine's operation has been recorded for several decades, reportedly. Operating Testatika devices were recorded in the 1960s at a place called Linden (near Berne, Switzerland). These devices were built and demonstrated by a group called Methernitha, who decline to make their devices public due to "mankind not being ready for them". As of 2004, no scientific investigation of these claims have been reported. Supposedly, the community is conducting perpetual motion research. _[2] Claims over copying the machine and replicating its operations have not been verified. Some claim that attempts to copy the machine produced a non working result. A Testatika device was demonstrated to over 30 technicians and engineers shortly before August 4, 1999 [3]. As of 2005, researchers sceptical about the Testatika, said by some to be a free energy source, have not been allowed to perform verifiable measurements of the device.

[edit] See also

• Static energy
• Electrostatics
• Radiant energy
• Pulse forming network
• Perpetuum mobile

[edit] Further reading

• Plauson, Hermann, "Gewinnung und Verwertung der Atmospharischen Elektrizitat". 1920. (German)
• Grossner, Nathan R., "Transformers For Electronic Circuits". 1967.
• Zahn, M., et. al., "Self-Excited, Alternating, High-Voltage Generation Using A Modified Electrostatic Influence Machine". American Journal of Physics, Vol 42. 1974.
• Eaton, William J., "The Testatika Free Energy Machine". June 2004.
• Aspden, Harold, "Swiss M-L converter -- It's Secret: Why it operates Over-Unity". June 2004.

[edit] Related patents

• U.S. Patent 459,678  -- J. W. Davis & J. B. Farrington -- "Electric Motor"
• US1119732 -- Nikola Tesla -- "Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy"
• U.S. Patent 1,415,779  -- William Spencer Bowen -- "Electrostatic Generator"
• U.S. Patent 1,540,998  -- Hermann Plauson -- "Conversion of Atmospheric Electric Energy"
• U.S. Patent 1,974,483  -- Thomas Townsend Brown -- "Electrostatic motor"
• U.S. Patent 2,522,106  -- Noel Felici -- "Electrostatic Machine"
• U.S. Patent 3,094,653  -- Dan B. Le May, et al. -- "Electrostatic Generator"
• U.S. Patent 3,187,206  -- Thomas Townsend Brown -- "Electromagnetic apparatus"
• U.S. Patent 3,187,208  -- Robert J. Van de Graaff -- "High voltage electromagnetic apparatus having an insulating magnetic core"
• U.S. Patent 3,239,705  -- R. J. Kavanaugh -- "Electric rotating machine"
• U.S. Patent 3,323,069  -- Robert J. Van de Graaff -- "High Voltage Electromagnetic Charged-Particle Accelerator Apparatus Having an Insulating Magnetic Core"
• U.S. Patent 3,411,027  -- N. Rosenberg -- "Permanent magnet excited electric machine"
• U.S. Patent 4,391,773  -- Patrick Flanagan -- "Method of Purifying Air and Negative Field Generator"
• U.S. Patent 4,622,510  -- Ferdinand Cap -- "Parametric Electric Machine"
• U.S. Patent 4,743,275  -- Patrick Flanagan -- " Electron field generator"
• U.S. Patent 4,897,592  -- William W. Hyde -- "Electrostatic Energy Field Power Generating System"

[edit] External links and references

The gentle reader should be aware (if this is not already apparent) that some of the following websites favor ideas which do not belong to mainstream physics.

• Potter, Paul E., "Methernitha Back-Engineered". (Notes) [Available Zip file]
• Bahlmann, Calvin, "Wimhurst - Thesta-distatica - Power wheel". Exotic research conference. Mesa, Arizona. July 26, 1998.
• "Testatika Group". Yahoo.com.
• Smith, Michael Barrie, "Testatika : Some of the Questions around how the Testatika may work".
• Holzherr, Hans, "Testatika demonstration with over 30 engineers". August 4, 1999. (Stefan Hartmann; translation)
• Sven Bösnich, "Electrostatic Discharge Power Transformation – An Approach to Understand the Working of the 'Thestitika' Free energy Device". ELEKTRIE, No. 5-8, 2003, Berlin, ISSN 0013-5399 (PDF)