In this article we investigate a free energy device concept in the form of a gravity LED lamp circuit for illuminating an LED through force of gravity.
The Circuit Concept
Gravitational force is an awesome source of energy, amply available on this planet, and easily accessible, however, nobody yet has been able to convert this force into free energy (perpetual), simply because that's impossible.
In this post we'll learn a simple manipulative technique which allows a user to channelize gravitational force into a work force which can be used for illuminating an LED lamp and for charging a battery. The idea was suggested by Mr. Pritam Bhowmik.
Recently, the idea of using gravitational force for illuminating an LED has gained a huge amount of popularity, and quite a few companies can be seen encashing on this by selling equipment designed for generating electricity just by hanging a load and allowing gravity to do all the hard work, the result being pure free electricity.....looks too good isn't it, but everything that appears to be too good = = FAKE.
Not Gravity Rather Human Force
Having said that, the idea definitely has the potentials of providing electricity however the "name" of the design needs to be changed to "Human Force free LED lamp" instead of gravity lamp, because although the gravity would be doing all the work of keeping the suspended load under pressure for implementing the intended results, for hoisting the load back to top repeatedly would require human energy which is by no means free, .....yet still with little thinking and a smart innovation the whole concept of making a gravity lamp circuit can be made feasible. The following discussion will make it clearer.
Recalling Laws of Thermodynamics
Basically, it's the first law of Thermodynamics that restricts the possibility of any perpetual or "free energy" concept to become successful, according to this law a particular form of energy can only be transformed to another form of energy, but energy can never be created.
No matter how strict the above law my be, it never stops anybody from making efficient machines or enhanced machines for achieving highly efficient conversion of energy from one form to the other desired form.
A couple of such manipulated overunity concepts (developed by me) can be studied in the following links:
Returning to the proposed gravity LED lamp circuit, the idea can be implemented by employing the following simple set up.
Circuit Diagram Layout Details
The idea looks pretty simple, in the set up image above we can see two pulleys (enhanced with ball bearing) on the top, and a generator motor at the bottom center.
We can also see a relatively large wheel with a lever handle mechanism on the left hand side of the set up, while on the right side a suspended heavy load.
All the above mechanisms are linked up with a rope, such that the mechanism becomes operational as I have explained below:
How the Mechanism Works
The idea here is to rotate the wheel handle with manual force in order to pull the heavy load upwards until it reaches the maximum height achievable, then release the wheel so that the load can now fall down freely due to the action of gravitational force.
While this happens the motor being a part of the pulley system also gets rotated and begins generating effective electricity for either charging an attached battery or illuminating an LED.
The switch SW1 plays an important role in the whole system, this switch should be in the OFF position while hoisting the load upwards, and in ON position before the wheel handle is about to be set free by the user.
The Role of SW1 Switch
This is important because with SW1 in switched OFF position the motor spindle acts like an ordinary freely moving easy to rotate pulley, and offers minimal resistance to the person hoisting the load, and as soon as SW1 is closed the motor gets loaded, and offers much higher resistance while moving.
Thus the suspended load now gets influenced by the loaded motor and instead of falling down freely moves relatively at a slower pace towards the ground and the gravitational has do apply an equivalent amount of work force for generating electricity from the motor.
This is obviously just an example which shows how a relatively lower input force can be used for achieving much higher levels of output power, through a very ordinary and easy to implement mechanism.
Wheel Handle Alternatives
The wheel handle mechanism can be replaced with other forms of mechanisms that may be capable of producing even higher efficiency for the same. Some of the examples are a 4 pulley/chain mechanism, screw jack mechanism etc.
The load on the motor should be optimally calculated so that the gravity load comes down at a much slower pace, or the height of the upper pulleys may be extended to higher points for inducing a sluggish unwinding procedure by the load.
The motor for this gravity LEd lamp circuit could be an ordinary permanent magnet motor, a stepper motor or geared type of electromagnet motor.
Shawn says
Great post, thank you. I’m surprised not to see more of these on the Internet actually. There are a few but not many. Gravity batteries are a really interesting storage mechanism. I was considering building one, but was hoping not to do all the research and design. Has anyone here built one for home purposes? My thought was to power my laptop or cell phone with the power from a gravity battery. Would like to limit the height to 7ft so it fits in my office and was going to showcase it behind my desk when on video calls. Was thinking I would just manually lift the weight, but perhaps i need more weight and would need gears like this to lift it? Is there a gear system that could reduce the force so it doesn’t drop at an uncontrolled speed? or a brake system to “time it” to control the drop speed? Any ideas or links to posts would be welcome.
Swagatam says
Thanks for your valuable feedback and glad you the liked the post!
I think adding a gears to the pulleys may be the only solution to restrict the free falling of the weight, although the free falling may not happen if the battery is discharged, as the motor would get loaded with the battery and restrict the fee falling of the weight.
marion asachi says
I did it
Swagatam says
…sorry correction: I mistakenly referred to the freewheel energy article…
the above concept itself is not easy and is too bulky so keeping it simple cannot be feasible.
Swagatam says
first you will need to confirm the free energy concept as proposed in the article and only then we can think about the load options….
Angelous Chavez says
Thanks sir. in your design for how many minutes will last to generate electrity and what type of motor is good to use in this design?
Swagatam says
Angelous, here I have only tried to present the concept, the parameters will need to be calculated as per individual preferences.
Swagatam says
any permanent magnet motor could be used for this application
Angelous Chavez says
Sir, do you have an actual video of this project that is uploaded on youtube? I just want to watch the working of this project.
So you mean sir that the project above you
have initially rotate the wheel then release it and should havE repeat the produre.
Swagatam says
Angelous, the project looks very obvious and it would work without fail, one simply has to optimize and select the motor, the load and the height of the fall correctly for getting maximum efficiency from the system.
Yes initially we need to rotate and hoist the load up, then switch ON the motor switch and allow the load to do it work.
there's no video for this available on YT
Angelous Chavez says
Sir, is this project tested?
Or is this really works?
what a nice and useful idea.
prashant sharma says
Sir i need a auto manual touch switch circuit
i want to use single switch for auto manual.
Swagatam says
Hi prashant, please explain it properly I could not understand your requirement.
Where do you want to use the circuit, please explain the full functioning details of the circuit you are looking for…
prashant sharma says
Sir i need auto manual switch with single soft touch button.
Plz send me link.
Abdul Wahab says
i am working on boost converter laptop charger
Abdul Wahab says
sir i have certain queries
1) i have completely patched the circuit but i am getting output not 20V
2) i am using fast recovery diode BY255 instead of BA159 as BA159 is not available in the market
3) i have made the inductor whosw picture is sent to you in the message block plz check that and also it has the inductance of 1.7uH
Swagatam says
Abdul,
I am assuming that you are referring to the following circuit:
https://www.homemade-circuits.com/2014/11/12v-car-laptop-charger-circuit-using.html
Initially keep the feedback to the BC547 base disconnected, and now check the output….if still you are not getting any voltage would simply mean a faulty 555 circuit, or some other incorrect connections.
however if you succeed in getting some higher voltage, after that you can tweak the value of the feedback zener and select some other higher value until the required output is achieved.
Inductance value is not important, just make sure you have at least 20 to 30 turns on a ferrite rod, and the frequency of the 555 IC at pin#3 should not be below 20kHz
you can try the circuit provided in the following link also:
https://www.homemade-circuits.com/2012/09/led-emergency-light-circuit-using-boost.html
Pritam Bhowmik says
Its an awsome invention
Swagatam says
thanks very much!