Electric OU: The Donny Blooper Reel: Some Problematic Statements from March 2011 Demo
The original “Rosemary Ainslie” demonstration of March 12, 2011 contains some remarkable mendacity, misrepresentation and mismeasurement. Most egregious are some bold statements made by Ainslie’s co-author and presenter, Donovan Martin.
The misrepresentation of the true schematic in use continued from the time the video demo was originally posted by Ainslie, which was on or about 20 March, until around the 18th of April, when a careful observer analyzed the still frames and determined the actual wiring schematic of the apparatus, most especially that all five mosfets were most certainly NOT in parallel as Donovan Martin and Rosemary Ainslie claimed.
Further, after the deception was uncovered in mid-April 2011, Ainslie claimed that _they knew it at the time the video was made_ but were intentionally withholding the serendipitous wiring error and the changed schematic, so Martin’s statements are not simple errors.
If this latter claim of Ainslie’s is true … you are seeing Donovan Martin lying to you at least three times in the first minute of the demonstration.
1. The printed schematic that he says represents the circuit does not in fact do so.
2. There are not five mosfets in parallel in the actual circuit.
3. The FG Black lead is not given at all in the paper schematic, and is clearly not in the place claimed in the Ainslie-Martin manuscripts.
Next is his description of the battery stack. In the first place the mansucripts and the circuit diagrams indicate 6 batteries, not 5, but we can let that slide… for the moment. It is significant however.
The demonstration’s first part used 5 ea. 12-volt, 60 A-H silver-calcium lead acid batteries. A fully charged battery of this type will measure well over 13 volts and most automatic chargers will charge them to around 13.4 volts. But even at 13 volts the battery stack should have indicated 65 Volts. For Martin to claim that “theoretically” the indication should be 60 volts, and to show that the meter is reading 62 volts, is a clear attempt at deception, even if you don’t think the claim that “theoretically 60 volts” is a lie. This little bit of Martin’s patter is intended to make the viewer believe that the batteries are being kept up-charged by Ainslie’s circuit, which is clearly untrue.
In the second part of the demo, not shown in this video, another battery was…. not added, no, but REMOVED from the stack to leave 4 behind. I think there are two reasons for this.
First, it makes it impossible for us to tell that the original battery stack has indeed dropped in voltage over the time span of the demonstration. Second, it avoids the problem of overheating the Q1 mosfet. Six batteries would result in overheating this transistor and likely cause it to malfunction and fail. The Q1 transistor was not on a big heatsink like the Q2s… at actually “that point in time” actually. But actually, it actually is on a much larger heatsink actually at “this point in time” which actually means “now”. Actually.
Then there is the false claim and selected graph of Donovan Martin’s bogus simulation results. Leaving out critical features of a circuit, and then claiming the simulation doesn’t sim the actual behaviour…. is like blaming the car when you run out of gas, and then saying all cars are no good because you yourself didn’t put gas in your car. And clearly, by the time of the most recent demo, Martin now knows that ALL behaviours… actual behaviours, not claimed ones… can indeed be simulated when the sim includes all components of the circuit. Including the ‘negative math product’, and that same negative math product can be corrected, in sim and circuit, by proper placement of the instrument probes. It is an error, nothing more, but Martin and Ainslie have turned it into a lie.
I have extracted these statements of Martin’s, along with some others, and assembled them into this “blooper reel”.
If anyone thinks I am taking anything out of context or distorting meanings, please refer to the original unaltered source videos, also available on my channel. The original March 2011 demo video is here:
and the original YT feed of the June 29 2013 video ( the statement that the simulation accurately sims the oscs) is here:
