Testatika Overview

Introduction

The testatika is a generic name for a set of free energy machines produced by the Methernitha community in Linden, Switzerland. The driving force behind the machines is the leader of the community, Paul Baumann. Information about the community can be found on their website here. However, they do not give out the details of how their machines work. The large, but incomplete, body of information that we do have is gleaned from the many visits by people to the community back at a time when such visits, along with demos of the machines, were permitted. That is no longer the case.

Click here for the small amount of technical information that used to be one the Methernitha website.

Click here for videos of the testatika

Testatika Machines

There were a number of machines made by the community. They range from machines that demonstrate the principle to working energy producing ones to ones that are still under construction.

Principle experiments

There are two principle demonstrating experiments:

  1. The Principle Experiment

    This was demonstrated by Paul Baumann to a group of 30 engineers during a visit to Linden. Details from the visit and descriptions of the experiment can be found here. This one was worked by hand and was intended only to demonstrate a principle. However, just what that principle was was never stated.
    Some theoretical discussion of the principle can be found here.
    See here for details of an unsuccessful attempt to replicate this experiment. The original page is in German, so if the above translated version doesn't work, try the original German. You could also try going to altavista's translation website and paste in the address http://www.hcrs.at/TESTA.HTM.
  2. The Linden Experiment
    Another was a simple demonstration involving just a horseshoe magnet, some wire, a capacitor and a voltmeter. Details of this one can be found here.
    Some theoretical discussion of can be found under the heading, Linden Experiment, here. The result of the experiment is a high voltage produced on the capacitor.

The first machine that was made - the "Ruck-Zuck (back and forth)" or the "panning arm machine"

According to Luzi Cathomen, the Chief engineer at Methernitha, this is the first machine they made. It appears to have features of the above principle experiment and Linden experiment. The ones in the pictures are unfinished, the original ones are lost.

The 100 watt single disk small machine

The output of this machine was reportedly tested by Stefan Marinov to be roughly 100 watts (he estimated this from the heat of a power resistor placed across the outputs). On the Methernitha video an analog voltmeter is shown on the 1000VDC scale with the needle at around 320 volts. The black and white photos are of Stefan Marinov with the two small machines in front of him (and are also the closest to rearview photos there are of the machine.)

The dual disk small machine

Not much is known about this machine. The black and white photos are of Stefan Marinov with the two small machines in front of him.

The 3kW, 50cm disk machine

On the Methernitha video an analog voltmeter is shown on the 300VDC scale with the needle at around 285 volts. I don't know where the 3kW figure comes from.

The fourth photo above that looks like a messed up rearview is a little odd because it's actually a composite of many parts taken from the Methernitha video. The middle rear does not appear on the video so the photo contains the rear left and right sides only.

The second picture above shows this machine powering a light bulb, indicated as 1000W.

The above photo is often refered to as the "garden photo".

Other machines not yet completed

the "Bull",
one meter discs
the "Elephant",
two meter discs

Though nothing is known about the machine in rightmost photo above, the man is Luzi Cathomen, the Chief engineer at Methernitha.

The tandem machines

Tandem 1
Tandem 2

Not much is known about these two devices. Tandem 1 appears in the amateur video but nothing substantive is said about it. The man standing to the right of Tandem 1 in the first photo is Luzi Cathomen, the Chief engineer at Methernitha.

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