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The capacitor will charge up to the peak voltage of the sinewave, which results in a much higher continuous DC voltage.

Big Clive

I keep thinking that something similar happens when you put a capacitor after a bridge rectifier for LEDs. Since it’s smoothed by the cap, it allows it to spend more time in the “gimme more power” part of the sine wave?

Miek Buchanan

Maximum power is delivered into a load whose impedance is the complex conjugate of the supply's. You changed the reactive part of the supply. You observed a power increase.

Mike Page

The formula that probably applies here is for a tank circuit. Quite complex as it has to use the inductance of a spinning motor, the capacitor and the mains frequency.

Big Clive

I am still trying to come up with a mathematical equation that works. But it seems to me everybody else is just giving Theory.

Jonathan Hughes

Electrical witchcraft.

Big Clive

It's basically witchcraft.

Whippet Gas

Technically speaking it would have been interesting to get that mystery Chinese person's ancestry. But I'm not sure if they accept hair for that test.

Big Clive

Hey Clive, You've just made a simple series wresonant circuit at 50hz. It will pull way more current at wresonance, and depending on the Q of this arrangemant, the volts across both the cap and the inductor could get way high! So, in a funny way, it's a perfectly power factor corrected wresonant short that will probably have a vastly better reading according to the Hopi! Would be interesting to play around and see if you can get it even faster with some finer cap tweeking!

William Taylor

What about hooking an oscilloscope on that? I'd say that might shade some light. I think you just accidentaly made one of those "power factor fixing" boxes, but the correct way. :)

Badger

Obviously you've discovered free energy - or, at least if you make a video claiming such - free money. I think UFOs are powered by this technology.

Circuitmike

Off the subject… you ever get dna results back from that jet black Chinese hair you found in a battery bank a few years ago? I just got curious

It's a turbo not a cap :P

Belgrath

Blame California!

Curtis Hoffmann

It would be fu to use a variable capacitor and tune it to the motor max speed. The PF should equal 1 at that point

Jeff Larson