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2026-10-08 Energetic Forum (energeticforum.com): replication threads

Forum of experimenters; posters are anonymous or pseudonymous. Their reports are first-hand bench accounts (priority 2), not controlled tests.

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  • Google: "Don Smith" free energy replication OR replicated energeticforum OR overunity.com "Don Smith device"; Utkin "Don Smith" pdf amplification energy; "Don Smith" resonance energy "passed away" OR "has died" OR "RIP" energeticforum OR overunity OR peswiki; site:energeticforum.com "Donald Smith Devices too good to be true".
  • Fetched by script (saved in pages/): thread 13932 "Reproducing the Don Smith Effect"; thread 13434 "Don Smith device information and tips"; thread 5012 "Donald Smith Devices too good to be true", page 1.

Found

  1. Thread 5012 "Donald Smith Devices too good to be true" opened 10-17-2009 by "baroutologos": a 12 V neon-sign-transformer drive charging "8000uF caps at 400 volts or so" from a Smith illustration "presented at a Tesla symposium"; the opener asks "Is the man heavily miscalculating or is there any explaination to this?" [web: https://www.energeticforum.com/forum/energetic-forum-discussion/renewable-energy/5012-donald-smith-devices-too-good-to-be-true]. The thread runs to at least page 790 (Google result for page790). A Google snippet of page 225 reads: "Sadly Donald Lee Smith passed away on 22nd November 2010" [web: snippet of https://mail.energeticforum.com/.../page225; page not opened]. Death date: one forum source so far; no obituary found (see Google notes).
  2. Thread 13932 "Reproducing the Don Smith Effect", opened 07-24-2016 by "tswift" [web: https://www.energeticforum.com/forum/energetic-forum-discussion/renewable-energy/13932-reproducing-the-don-smith-effect]. Setup: a high-voltage high-frequency source (a flyback driver, 30 kHz), a battery, "A diode on the battery positive lead. Don called this a 'kickback diode'", and an earth ground; he likens the battery to "the positive half of an avramenko plug". Reports: battery voltage falling "to the low 9's, and then the self-charging kicked in and ZOOM in about 10 seconds or so went up back above 10 and held steady"; he adds "The observation with the voltage really soaring is probably just a measurement error from a cheap meter. If I attach the scope probes to the battery, I don't see the scope trace do this"; "I can achieve a continuous 1 watt output easily. While I doubt you will achieve kilowatts of output this way, I suspect 10 watts or perhaps even much more is achievable." Names Marc Belanger as having "claimed to have replicated it with a 60 Hz NST and made a video", and "Zilano" as another claimed replicator. Bearing: claim 3 (energy drawn in through earth grounding) and the battery "recharge itself" note on the 1997 schematic (binder p.36); the poster himself flags a meter artefact.
  3. Thread 13434 "Don Smith device information and tips" (2015): weighing-scale experiments on capacitor banks (poster notes possible interference with a kitchen scale), scope-probe observations of "dielectric pulsation" near the spark gap, and a pointer to Vladimir Utkin's PDF on Smith's demonstrations [web: https://www.energeticforum.com/forum/energetic-forum-discussion/renewable-energy/13434-don-smith-device-information-and-tips].
  4. Vladimir Utkin, "Free Energy: Nikola Tesla Secrets for Everybody" (PDF on Kelly's tuks.nl mirror, 93 pp., created 2012) [web: http://www.free-energy-info.tuks.nl/VladimirUtkin.pdf ; saved as files/Utkin-Free-Energy-Tesla-Secrets.pdf]. Contains "EXAMPLE 1 Using a bi-filar coil as the primary coil in a resonant Tesla transformer By Don Smith" and "THE SAME APPROACH? By Don Smith: In this arrangement, the capacitor is charged by sparks and powerful displacement current is produced. The transformer with the ferromagnetic core is collecting this current" [orchestrator fix 2026-10-08: the source reads "is produced", not "is around"; the sentence is Utkin's caption for a 2006 rendering titled "Don Smith Device" (credited to Zero Point Films), not Smith's words; see deep/further-investigator-files.md] [read: files/Utkin..., text layer]. Bearing: priority 3, the same displacement-current-capture idea that Lagace reconstructs (claim 6), stated about ten years earlier by a different author; Utkin also says "Don Smith named this technology 'Bird on the wire'".