Eclator

The "Eclator" is the principal named apparatus associated with the source dossier page attributed to Guillot, filed under the archive's "Atmospheric power" grouping. The name is attested by three image files on that page — eclator-1.jpg, eclator-2.jpg, and eclator-3.jpg — which appear to depict the apparatus.

What is known

The source text is available. It describes the Guillot collector as using two insulated armatures — a vertical antenna with fan-scattered rods pointing to the zenith to collect negative electricity, and a horizontal antenna oriented south (toward the equator) to collect positive electricity — with lightning arrestors, regulators, resistance panels, and an auxiliary battery/Ruhmkorff-coil starting arrangement. The source reports that the device generated about 2.5–3 kW with an antenna height of ~20 m, and that the apparatus in the photograph produced ~300 W with a 2 m collector; the 1930 article states a 20 m height and 3 m² total surface. These are attributed claims from the source, not independently verified findings.

Handling

This page exists to anchor the named apparatus so that, if the source text is later retrieved, its claims can be attached to the correct subject rather than generalized into the atmospheric-power category as a whole. Claims about atmospheric extraction in general belong on atmospheric-electricity-extraction; claims about efficiency above unity belong on over-unity-claims.

The device should not be described as validated, replicated, or demonstrated. The archive presents inventor dossiers; an entry in a dossier is not evidence of operation.

Related work

• Guillot — the attributed inventor or author of the dossier page.
• atmospheric-electricity-extraction — the concept page for this class of claim.
• over-unity-claims — relevant if efficiency or self-sustaining operation is asserted in the source.

Further reading

• Power from the Air: Robert A. Nelson's Survey of Atmospheric Electricity Collectors, from Palenscar to Guillot and Plauson — Robert A. Nelson's survey repeats the 2.5–3 kW and ~300 W figures for the Guillot collector and sets them against the outputs claimed for Hermann Plauson's balloons.
• The Practical Use of Atmospheric Electricity: Andry-Bourgeois's June 1923 Account of Jules Guillot's Double-Antenna Collector in La Science et la Vie — a June 1923 La Science et la Vie article with photographs and diagrams of the double-antenna collector; it reports ten 50-candle lamps lit and gives no power figure in watts.
• The Global Atmospheric Electrical Circuit: R. G. Harrison's 2004 Review and the Physical Baseline for Atmospheric Power Claims — a peer-reviewed review of the global atmospheric circuit; its fair-weather current density of 3 pA per square metre is many orders of magnitude below what the 2.5–3 kW claim would require from a collector of this size.