Build a Free Energy Power Transformer for Income

1. Theoretical Considerations
In this section we shall examine the functioning of existing transformers and introduce
concepts that eliminate their major flaw. This flaw arises from the concurrent generation
of power that opposes the input power according to the laws of energy conservation,
and which reduces the efficiency of the transformer. This unavoidable opposing energy
can however be diverted from acting against the input source and utilized to advantage.

1.1. Watch the video introduction to this course

1.2. Conventional transformers

1.2.1. What is a transformer?

This is a device that is used to increase or decrease the value of the force that drives
electricity (known as electromotive force or EMF) through our homes, offices, businesses
and industries. The power supply must be alternating current (AC), which rapidly
reverses the direction of electricity flow through the conducting cables. Transformers are
necessary in order to adjust the value of the EMF to suit the power requirements of a
locality, an electric machine or a gadget. The higher the value of the EMF the larger the
amount of electric power passing through a system.

1.2.2. How does a transformer function?

A transformer functions by first disconnecting the power supply from the point of end-
use. Then it reconnects the power supply through a magnetic field instead of direct
electric cables. It does this by creating an oscillating and circulating magnetic field inside
a looped steel core. The magnetic field is created by a coil of insulated electrical wire,
connected to the AC power supply and known as the primary coil. This field circulates
inside the steel core and induces an EMF inside another winding placed on the same core
and known as the secondary coil. The value of the secondary EMF is proportional to the
number of turns of wire in the coil. This secondary power, proportional to the EMF, is
then led out to whatever needs it.

1.2.3. Why do they function that way?

Basically, the transformer law is stated as follows.

 An alternating EMF in a coil of conducting wire induces an alternating magnetic field
in a magnetic core that is placed inside the coil: the strength of the magnetic field is
proportional to the voltage inducing it, the size and material of the core and the
number of turns in the coil.
 A changing magnetic field induces a voltage in a coil of conducting wire that is placed
around it: the value of the induced voltage is proportional to the strength of the field
and the number of turns in the coil.
 1.2.4. What are transformers used for?

Power transformers are used for alternating voltage changes in electrical distribution
networks and in electricity user gadgets such as uninterruptible power supplies UPS), arc
welding machines, battery changers, voltage adapters (e.g.220 Volt to 110 volt),
microwave oven transformers (MOT) and transformer in many other devices. They are
said to be symmetrically because, indeed the construction and wiring are geometrically
and electrically symmetrical. These transformers waste energy as heat in the
transformer cores (hysteresis losses) and in the electrical wires (resistance losses). Their
efficiencies could never reach 100%

1.2.5. Why do we need to rewire them?

Because of the electrical symmetry of the transformer, an opposing voltage (known as

back EMF) is generated in the input coil when the transformer is powered up. When
power is drawn from the output, this effect tends to diminish the amount of power that
can be removed. This effect cannot be mitigated in a symmetrically wound machine,
where the induced magnetic field, responsible for generating power in the output coil, is
in a restricted path that warrants the opposing field to return towards the input winding.

Let us take a glance at a traditional transformer. The following should be noted:

 Wiring symmetry is caused by the coils being wound on the central leg of the core.
The secondary coil is usually placed inside the primary and nearest to the core in a
bid to maximize the magnetic effect of the primary upon the secondary.

Primary Secondary
Winding Winding

Power
Output
Cables
Power
Input
Cables

Laminated E-I sheet Core

 Electromagnetic symmetry is attained through the use of a geometric symmetry in

core design. The E-I core is the most frequently used in small sized transformers up
to 20KW. The cores are constructed from alternative inter-leafing of E-shaped steel
sheets capped by I-shaped pieces as shown below.
 E-shaped piece

I-shaped
piece

In operation, the primary coil, when energized by the input power, generates a pulsing
magnetic field which starts from the central arm, circulates through the external arms of
the E, through the I section and back to the central arm. Transformer works on
alternating current. If we consider only one half of a particular AC cycle, the primary will
generate magnetism in the core as shown on left: it will arise from the center and split
into the left (in anticlockwise direction) and right (in clockwise direction) arms. These
will then join again at the bottom and rise up through the center. The process is
reversed during the next half cycle of the wave.

Magnetic flux in core during positive AC Output

AC Input half cycle. Left: flux created by from
to Primary primary during 1st quarter. Right: flux Secondary
Secondary
Primary Coil created by secondary coil during 2nd Coil
quarter, as it draws power from the
core. This flux opposes the primary
flux.

The opposing flux reduces the efficiency of the transformer, and no transformer design
using this principle will ever operate at 100% efficiency, even if there were no core and
coil resistance losses.

1.3. Bi-toroid Transformer Energy Gain

It is possible to annul the effect of back EMF and even harness and use it; such that the
efficiency (in this case known as Coefficient of Performance - COP) of transformation is
raised above 100%. This has been done and more so if the input coil is tuned into
resonance. To attain the aim of harnessing back EMF, two things are essential. First,
offset the symmetry of the transformer operation and second, tune it into resonance.

That, which enables back EMF is eliminated by converting the transformer into a bi-
toroid configuration. This configuration enables the back EMF generated by the
secondary coil to find an alternative path from that of exciting the input coil by instead
feeding the back EMF into another coil. This is attained by using a larger magnetic path
for the secondary coil and diverting the superfluous magnetism into another path. In
other words, it is like using two transformers, back to back. The following illustration is
what has to take place.
 Primary Flux Secondary Flux

Auxiliary Output:
Primary Secondary Tertiary
Normally Shorted
INPUT Coil Coil Coil

OUTPUT

The above illustration shows that the back EMF has been diverted into the tertiary coil. If
the primary coil is tuned into resonance by
special winding or by using capacitors, the
output power will far exceed the input.

Picture at left shows a practically rewound

transformer for bi-toroid operation.
In the case of power saving, the coils have
the same number of turns, which are
calculated to suit the size of the left leg of the
E-I core rather than the double sized middle
leg which is used in symmetric configurations.
Note that the number of turns will be double
that used in the traditional transformer, and
the wire size would be halved. The output coil
however should have a double sized wire with the same number of turns. The cross
sectional area of the output coil wire should be at least four times that of the primary
coil.

1.3.1. Toroidal transformers

Toroidal transformer steel cores are being used nowadays to to make highly efficient
symmetric transformers. Two of such cores can be used form a bi-toroid transformer
with a very high COP. In this arrangement, the primary and tertiary coils are wound on
two separate toroidal cores. These cores are then arranged side by side or one above
the other and the output winding is created by joining the separate cores with the
output winding.
TOROID 1 TOROID 2
Core Tertiary
winding

AC In Secondary coil AC Out

Primary
winding Core
Output
In a side by side arrangement, toroid 1 and toroid 2 (already wound with the primary
and tertiary coils) are placed side by side, and a power output winding is wound
between them (above).

If toroids (A) and (B) are arranged in a stack with

an insulating sheet between them, the power
extraction winding (D) is wound around the two
toroids, enclosing them both (Left). Winding (D) is
actually continued all the way around the
circumference of the toroids with as many turns
and layers as are required to give the desired
output voltage.

The tuning capacitor (C1) is adjusted to attain resonance in the primary circuit in a bid
to minimize the current flowing into toroid (A) from the mains. The purpose of toroid (B)
is to divert the reverse magnetic flux in Toroid (A) so as to produce a high COP.
Capacitor (C2) is adjusted to give the highest output voltage coming from toroid (B)
The output winding (D) is free of the Lenz law effect (back EMF) and the input current
from the mains is not affected in any way when the current draw from coil (D) is
increased, or even short-circuited. The load (L) is practically a dummy load, but it could
not be considered as an actual working load if that output is convenient to use.

It is possible to greatly amplify the input power by using high frequencies and high
voltage at the input of a ferrite or iron dust transformer core. It is mathematically
proven that high frequency and high voltage increase the COP of the transformer in an
exponential manner. But, this is not our concern here for now.

1.4. Pulsed DC Input Energy Gain

It is a simple matter to further increase the power saving capability of the transformer
by using pulses instead of complete sine waves in the input. This is achieved by using a
half-waved rectifier, which is just a diode in series with the input. This technique of input
pulsing combined with the Back EMF path diversion enables our transformer achieve
COP value of at least 10.

What this means is that you can only draw 100 watts from the power line and drive
loads of more than 1000 Watts; in other words, pay ten times less for your electric bills
compared to times before the use of this transformer. If your monthly electric bills
averaged say $100 before the power saving transformer installation, you will now pay
only $10 monthly.

Let me stress here that it is physically impossible to draw more energy out of a
conventional and symmetric circuit than the energy flowing into that circuit. Energy can't
be destroyed or created and you can't have more than 100% of anything, anywhere,
any time. But it has been demonstrated very clearly that carefully designed and
operated circuits definitely put out more energy than the user puts into the circuit. This
is because NO system is a CLOSED SYSTEM. Extra energy comes from somewhere else
into our transformer, flowing into the circuit from outside. However, let's not concern
ourselves with trying to discover the source of this extra power and instead, just learn
how to capture and use it for our own benefit.

The initial basic circuit which gives an energy gain is:

Diode Core
Pulses
110-240 V A C Primary Secondary Output

The diode has a very low resistance to current flow in one direction and a very high
resistance to current flow in the other direction. We tend not to think about it, but the
ordinary mains current changes its direction of flow fifty to sixty times per second. When
you put a diode into the primary circuit as shown in the diagram above, it stops the
reverse surge of current through the primary winding, making the current flow to be in
only one direction, such that there are fifty to sixty gaps per second in the flow of
current through the primary. This pulsing current flow passes through the left hand
transformer primary winding: generating a voltage and current flow in the secondary
winding of the transformer. As the current rises to maximum value and then falls back
to zero, a back EMF is generated in the secondary for every pulse in the primary.

The bottom line of the matter is that the voltage generated in the secondary winding of
the transformer is a full-wave; just like the original mains waveform with no gaps in it.
The extra energy thus gained by the secondary winding is useful for a wide range of
different purposes. You can safely assume that there is a power gain in this process.

1.5. Combining Bi-toroid and Pulsed DC Concepts

Primary Flux Secondary Flux

DIODE
Live
PULSED DC
Primary Secondary Tertiary Dummy
AC
Coil Coil Coil Load
INPUT
Neutral

AC OUTPUT

For power saving purposes, mains voltage of between 100 and 240 volts AC is passed
through a half-wave rectifier, which is a single diode of appropriate rating. This diode
converts the AC into pulsed DC, which then enters the primary coil of the Bi-toroid
transformer. The primary winding then feeds pulsed magnetism through the middle leg
of the transformer, on which the secondary coil is wound. The pulsed magnetic field
circulating around the first half of the core induces an EMF in the secondary coil. As the
magnetism rises and collapses, back EMFs are also induced in the coils. Normally, a back
EMF is supposed to be induced in both coils. However, since an easy magnetic path is
provided through the right arm of the core, the reverse magnetic flux flows through it
and does not generate back EMF in the primary and secondary coils. This back EMF
effect is removed by the tertiary coil, which has a dummy load across it, or it is
conveniently short circuited.

When power is now taken out of the system through the secondary coil, at the output,
any opposing back EMF is taken out the shorted tertiary coil. The back EMF is thus
eliminated. But, it has been demonstrated that something else is happening: The
transformer output power is more than double the input power. Indeed, the secondary
coil can be short circuited without demanding a large power supply from the input.
Therefore, electrical energy is entering the transformer from an unknown source and
being used through the output. We will not go into speculations, theories and disputes
about this. Let us be content with using it profitably for now.

Another source of power gain is the conversion of half waves, provided at the input and
full waves drawn out at the output. This indicates a power amplification of at least two
times. Again, something else is happening in this case: the power from the output is
more than twice that provided bat the output.

In theory, our transformer should give us at its output, at least four time the power
provided at its input. We shall verify this claim by building the transformer.

2. Bi-toroid Rewinding of 2000W Transformer for Power Saving

2.1. Practical space, tools and materials

Before we start the practical part of this course, let us summarize what is to be done.
First, we specify that our intention is to save electric power by passing mains current
through a rewired transformer. The transformer to be used is a commercial, single-
phase, E-I steel-cored one as found in step-down transformers for welding,
Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS), 220 to 110 volt adapters and battery chargers,
among others. The power rating of the transformer is below 10KW.

We shall do the following:

1. Disassemble the transformer
2. Rewind it in an asymmetrical manner
3. The output voltage is made to be equal to the input voltage. It can be halved or
double (through halving or doubling of the secondary coil turns) depending on
whether you use 110-220 or 220-240 volts provided by your mains.
4. The primary winding is done on one outer leg of the E-I core and has a smaller
sized wire and twice the number of turns as those on the primary of the original
symmetric winding
 5. Wire the secondary on the central leg of the E-I core with the same number of
turns in as in the primary (twice the original number in the symmetric winding),
but with a thicker wire than in the primary
6. Wire a tertiary coil on the other outer leg of the E-I core, the same as in the
primary
7. Reassemble the transformer
8. Tune the primary coil, into resonance mode, with a capacitor so that it draws the
least amount of current when loaded with mains AC
9. Put a large diode in series with the primary circuit such that it is able to carry the
necessary voltage and current when loaded
10. Short circuit the tertiary coil
11. Test the operation of the transformer on no load and when loaded, using
ammeters, voltmeters and watt meters
12. Determine its coefficience of performance (COP) and enclose the assemble
transformer and its attachments; providing an input, output and tuning terminals
13. Use the transformer to save power in your house, office or workshop; or sell
it for profit. You may also do the rewiring for commercial and industrial clients.

2.1.1. Work space

Get a working space of at least 4 square meters(say, 4 square yards), with a wooden
table of convenient height, when standing and having a flat surface areas of about 2
square meters (say, 2 square yards). Provide adequate lighting and ventilation in the
work-space. Mains electricity should be available. In this practical lesson, we shall rewire
a 220 volt, 2000 watt UPS transformer. Adjustments can be made for 110 volt mains
use. The student will be directed according to the mains voltage at his/her location.
2.1.2. Tools
- Sets of spanners and screw drivers
- Hammer, pincers, chisel and pliers
- Wooden mallet and vise
- Two multi-meters (preferably analog) and watt meter
- Electrical appliances (with required mains voltage rating) of known wattage

2.1.3. Materials
- Wires for primary and secondary winding (the student should provide details of the
transformer available in order to get specifications on the wires needed)
- Insulating paper used for rewiring
- Cable varnish
- Insulating tape
- Connectors and terminals
- Soldering iron and a roll of fluxed solder wire
- Sheet steel for boxing the gadget
- 3 trays: one for putting laminations, another for connectors, terminals and nuts
and bolts, and another for tools, varnish and tapes.

2.2. Disassembling a conventional transformer: Watch Video 2

2.3. Winding the Coils: Watch Video 3
2.4. Assembly and Connections: Watch Video 4
2.5. Testing and Determination of COP and efficiency: Watch Video 5
2.6. Debate on Results

3. Applications Bi-Toroid, Pulsed DC Transformers

3.1. Use for Household Power Saving
3.2. Use for Office and Commercial Power Saving
3.3. Business Venture 1: Contract Rewiring
3.4. Business Venture 2: Production
3.5. College Credits for Students
3.6. Debate on Applications

4. The Future of Bi-toroid, Pulsed DC transformers

4.1. Using High Frequency and High Voltage
4.2. Amplifying Renewable Energy
4.3. Practical Applications: solar, wind, micro hydro
4.4. Debate on the Future