I recently submitted a project to Kickstarter.com, called Free Energy Garden Lights. While keeping to all the rules and including a video of how they work, the circuit and the lights in operation, the project was declined.
An appeal to the decision was made, requesting the reason for the refusal of the project, but the response was just as vague as the initial response.
For those not familiar with Kickstarter....what happens is that a person submits a prototype, with the idea of finding manufacturing interest, but primarily to reward 'Pledge' donations from the public with products. Say you have a 2013 Calendar and wish to gain money to take pictures and create a theme with costumes. People who pledge $1 might get a thank you, people who pledge anything above $15 might get the calendar itself. Pledge $50 and get 4 calendars etc. After a set time frame that the project is shown, say 2 weeks, if the project meets the target set by the poster, then the monies are collected, through Amazon.com and the project person is paid. If the amount is not reached, noone gets charged anything.
The idea, is to produce these lights cost effectively, to have anyone who wants some of them be able to get them and for them to continue to be refined and improved...such that, if no manufacturing deal is reached, I can produce a good quality, reliable free energy light for peoples use.
As I say, the project has been turned down...perhaps they just decided no light can work without power applied from a battery or solar, I still have no idea.
Here is what would have been the project video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXZhNEB3qpEAttached are a couple of pics of the lights.
They work, they need to be improved, but are what they say they are.
Envisaged final pricing for commercial units would be $2.99 each, with deals for packs of 12's and 24's. It takes 2hrs to make and test each one at the moment and I have no way to meet a demand if there were one. This would be no money making exercise....but it would enable a usable source of free power into public knowledge. From interest would come someone with manufacturing ability and if not, at least an alternative energy product would be out there with some people.
Steve has kindly helped with this project and I have sent 2 units to him, for appraisal and own use.
The blocking oscillator is standard enough, same as a Joule Thief but with a 1M resistor and 0.1uF cap in parallel with it to the Base of a good hFE transistor with low turn on requirements(C1815 and similar). It's basically the same as Lidmotor's 'Penny' circuit or Xee2's 2uA oscillator, on a tiny scale. There is a 100uF cap on the front end, to allow the voltage to build sufficiently to switch on the transistor.
Developments and the circuits have been shown in recent YouTube videos (my channel is same name Slider2732).
The electrodes are copper and chain link fencing. Ever seen chain link fencing rust ? neither have I. The low circuit requirements benefit any galvanic reaction concerns
Several electrodes have been in our back garden for weeks now and still produce the same output as when they went in. No corrosion or other effects are to be seen. A long term similar setup, in plain water, has been running continuously since November of last year.
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