Dear Jim,

thank you very much. But I coud not believe it firstly, too. But
after the wheel was about half an hour constantly spinning, and the
voltage from the single battery still was rising, I concluded, this
must be the truth. I then quickly took my camera and made those
photos and videos. Not soon after that, I fingered to much on it and
stupidly destroyed it on my own fault. But Photos and Videos are
there for everyone... me, too... ;c)

> What if you substituted a higher value resistor to match the half
> burned one?

Higher value in Ohm or Watt? Watts.. I already used a 15ohm, 5W
resistor right in front of it, but hadn't any high-wattage vari-
resistor on hand. Ohms... I am still trying many resistors, but
couldn't find an other sweet on, which let me run my Bedini-Motor in
selfrunninge mode.


>Did you record the value of the resistor when it was
> reading in the k-ohm range?

>Which resistor burned out? I only see
> one resistor in your schematic (R1) which is specified as 66 ohms.
>


Yes, it was at 1750 Ohms or so. But there it was already useless...
But I had such sparks several times before, each time when I had no
load on the circuit (like Bedini told us it would happen so). And I
speculate, that this modified the resistor. When it was still good,
I had it in the 0-Ohm spot and measured a total DC-resistance of
around 18 Ohms across ALL my combinated resistors (a 15 Ohm 5 Watt
and this variable resistor which initally was labeled "3-5kOhm")

See for yourself that said resistor and the burnout:
http://home.arcor.de/fallenangel3k/burnout.jpg


> Also, do you know what the RPM was when it was self running?

Unfortunately, no. I had upgraded my rotor to 8 neo-magnets which
were enclosed between to discs from an old 5,25" harddisk, so that I
would reduce the wind-drag and provide a solid protection against
hurting if you come to close with your fingers.... after that I
played a little (with no scope on circuit) and discovered the
selfrunning/charging with single battery of my device. Never touch a
runnig system! And so I decided to not put the scope on the circuit
as that might destruct everything. I wanted to do later, but there
it was way too late...

But I can say, that the speed was very, very slow compared for it's
normal speed if it's connected to a 2nd Battery or other load....
Maybe 500 - 1000 RPM, if I shall speculate on that...



Hope that helps you,

Marcus