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Bedini-John: central claims

Source gap: The folder holds no Bedini book, patent text, lab notes or measured data. The only substantial readable works are the 2008 BM3 Group build manual (full text, volunteer-written) and a saved web page about the science-fair motor. The remaining files are 17 diagrams (now all read as page images in the deep read), a commercial battery-analyser manual with no Bedini content, and three uncaptioned bench photos that were skipped. No SSG test results (meter logs, scope traces, COP tables) are in the folder; the only recorded numbers are a few currents and voltages written on builders' drawings (see claims 2 and 3). Bedini's own 1984 book, "Free Energy Generation" (Bedini and Bearden, 2006), US 6,545,444 and the Yahoo group posts should be obtained. Any verdict on whether the effect exists would rest on [memory]/[web], not on data here.

  1. A Simplified Schoolgirl Circuit (SSG) pulse motor, built exactly as specified, charges a second battery by "radiant energy" rather than by conventional electron current from the primary battery. The manual's supporting test (p.19-20): with a 1 ohm resistor in place of the charge battery the meter should read 1 V or less, and this "shows" conventional energy cannot account for the charging. The text gives no energy balance; at most it bounds the resistor to about 1 A and 1 W, and the same reading is the tuning criterion, so it says nothing about real battery charging power.
  2. Measured on the charge battery alone with conventional meters, the SSG yields more energy out of that battery (to a constant load) than went into it, a "battery COP" above 1, and repeated cycles improve its capacity. The manual's own protocol (p.21-24) measures conventional power into the charge battery by an analog ammeter or by matching bulb brightness, compares SSG against conventional-charger load times, and tells the builder to "forget" the primary battery's draw; it never accounts for the primary's energy. The only recorded input and output currents in the folder (a builder's 2-coil replication sheet) read 15 V in at 2.2 A (about 33 W) against 0.3 A charging out, which points the conventional way.
  3. In pulsed variants the primary battery is recharged while it powers the machine ("backpopping"), so the system could run indefinitely or very long on one battery (the 5-day 9 V science-fair motor, 22 mA). The Self-runner drawing states "backpopping of primary takes place once every rotation or more" and that a switch S2 disconnecting the primary while the top coil pulses "improves rotation and charging significantly" (S2 is marked "not used in video"); these are assertions with no measured currents, and periodic primary disconnection is a switched-battery arrangement.
  4. The coil pulse "opens the Bloch wall" of the magnet, letting zero-point or vacuum energy flow in.
  5. The effect is reproduced only by builders who follow the design exactly (ceramic magnets, specified coil, no changes); modifications ruin it.
  6. Collapse spikes from a pulsed coil can be harvested through diodes/capacitor into a second battery as an energy-recovery scheme (the N-pole motor lineage credited to Bedini and Ron Cole, 9-19-1984). The sheets show this as energy recovery, with an SCR and capacitor stage added in later redraws (Badertscher copy-claims, Aug-Dec 2005), a recorded 200 V spike on a 7 V pulse, and one charging result (13.51 V, 0.8 A falling to 0.2 A; interpretation unverified).

Note: the manual's COP formula is stated as work out / energy in but its table computes Input Joules / Output Joules (inverted); the test also deliberately ignores the primary battery's draw.