OldTony

There once was a fellow called Hooke I once read about in a book He pulled on a spring and noticed the thing grew longer, if one takes a look.

I see it as a question of how much energy is stored and how it is stored and then how much energy is released and how it is released. As I think everyone would agree they would be equal if there were no losses. In practice there would be some loss (less than 100% efficiency) The energy that will be stored is that which raised the centre of mass of the base to a higher level and the energy returned is that provided by the centre of mass returning to it's original, lower, level.

There are many examples of devices that do this. One familiar example is the toilet system in our homes. A trickle of water would not create enough force to lift the bowl contents over the lip of the U bend and send it on its way but a forceful gush over a few seconds will. The principle is much the same where in Wales water is pumped from a low level reservoir to a higher level reservoir to be returned when extra power is needed. ENGIE UKDinorwig Power Station | Building low-carbon energy syste...

Matter is about 99.9999999% empty space. It's quite surprising that we see each other as solid objects. Similarly the radiation from the magnetron in a microwave oven "sees" the perorated metal screen on the door as a solid sheet of metal which is just as well for our well being.

And all of this is a spin off from the organ which has as its main purpose keeping us alive long enough to reproduce before we die........................

I sometimes write a poem and this is one I wrote some time ago - it seems appropriate. Being In aimless drift, the countryside I wander and where I roam my eyes perceive in wonder arrays of life within my sphere of being. Which makes me glad to be among the living. But was it chance that brought me into being, this heady mix of thoughtfulness and feeling; elation in the marvel of existence within these many forms of life’s persistence? And why should I among these forms of living think that my life was special in the giving? A mote of dust that wanders in infinity; a moment’s glow within endless eternity.

In the words of a famous song :- "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality" I suppose it's part of wondering what life is all about and perhaps we all wonder about that now and then.

I am wondering why you think the motor will have the full supply voltage connected to it. In other words why you think the volts drop across the capacitor plus the volts drop across the transformer primary winding will equate to zero.

Take it or leave it One over two Pi root L C equals resonant frequency

Now you have me worried. My birthday is the 23rd of next month and perhaps me and anybody who responds to this thread might drop dead two days before Christmas. More seriously I think that if there was no such thing as a coincidence the word "coincidence" would not exist. BTW Although the odds against it are huge the possibility that I and anyone who responds to this thread will die on my birthday does exist

If you google capacitance multiplier circuit you will see that your idea is sound although you need to make a few changes to your circuit. To make the output variable you could add a potentiometer.

To get to grips with this circuit you need to understand the terms reactance, resistance and impedance. You then need to estimate how the properties of each circuit component fits together to find the current flowing around the circuit and its phase relationship with the generated voltage. Knowing there will be voltage drops only across the resistance component you can then find the voltage drop across each part of the circuit. Unfortunately unless the motor is running at a constant speed attached to a constant load all these parameters will be shifting. Unfortunately I feel if you can get someone to make some analysis of the circuit I feel you will just tell them they are wrong.

Looking at your diagram ( Agust 3rd 2024) it appears to me that you are trying to use the inductance of the transformer primary and the capacitor as a series tuned circuit at resonance. In such a circuit the voltage across those two components can easily exceed the input voltage. You then assume you can tap off some of that voltage to do useful work. However transformers can easily exceed 95% efficiency so the transformer with a resistive load will act as an almost pure resistor with a small amount of inductance. The net result of this is that any power delivered to the circuit by the generator will be shared between the resistor connected to the transformer secondary winding and that required to drive the motor. In other words I think that the addition of a transformer would reduce the circuit efficiency even if you achieved the circuits resonant frequency. Note power factor correction is usually achieved with capacitance connected in parallel with the inductive load. There are reasons for that, but that's another story.

Electronics is full of examples of feedback. However feedback cannot take you back in time. So the first signal round a feedback loop ignores the feedback loop and so that first time around can be very different to the very quickly established stable effect. This known as a transient condition. I'm not a philosopher but this seems relevant to me. It seems to indicate to me that feedback is in its way cause and effect.