I trust you have received the documents I sent to you. I notice that the CEST paper is 38 pages long and not 25. It seems that once I get going on my favorite subject I tend to be verbose.
Right now I consider the "Grids" to be a HV capacitor of low value. I know that John's Field notes show perforated copper cylinders, however the only devices that were ever disclosed to the public were solid structures (1976). Who knows what was going on here. Was it for looks? Someone on that team was very interested in appearance because of the money they spent on dressing up their hardware. For example the 'Start Motor' is a war surplus dynamotor (about 2 HP) that was provided with expensive machined cowlings that were anodized in four (4) colors. These expensive additions provided nothing to the operation of the equipment. Even the EMA0 has five (5) colors of anodized coatings. So, excessive looks has to be taken in consideration when analyzing the Gray material. Just because they had some feature on their equipment doesn't mean that it was fully functional (if at all).
Even though Peter has proposed that the "Radiant Energy" is collected at right angles from the source conductor - that process has not been proven. In the Bedini system the anomalous energy is collected from a bifilar winding that runs parallel with the source winding. In the Purple Motor there is an additional coil around the stator coils that also runs parallel to the primary electromagnets. For now we can neither prove or disprove the orientation of energy harvest method. So, keep on open mind to both approaches.
In my mind the conversion process is separate from the switching or the mechanical torque conversion. The original "Black Boxes" had a start up feature that few people have talked about. It took 30 seconds to build up the initial charge before the system could be switched to OU operation. Once the circuit was going some kind of feedback process kept the storage capacitor charged and the HV power supply was used to just "Top Off" the capacitor. From my understanding "Cold Electricity" is difficult to control once it is released from the storage capacitor. All of its vast energy is expended on the order of 10 milliseconds, thus the required split electromagnet design of the EMA4. However, enough classical electrostatic charge could be harvested and returned to the capacitors. I suspect this was the primary function of the 'Floating Flux Field' (FFF).
I'm sure all that geometry is important for the original CEST and Stan Myer's circuits. For some reason it didn't work in the Gray system at the higher power levels. Perhaps the Stan Myer system was able to over come the limitations that Gray ran into or he was not running anywhere close to the power level that Gray and company were shooting for (75 KW).
The claim that the "Capacitors" are not all capacitors is strictly my speculation based upon circumstantial evidence.
Mr. Nelson Schlaft said that even in 1980 Gray was purchasing custom capacitors from a vendor in 1000 Oaks, CA. He even described doing business there and having some warranty work done. This firm didn't make their money in a capacitor only service. They made a host of custom circuits that were "canned in oil" for the research industry. Why would Gray pay the $$$ to have custom capacitors made if off the shelf units would work for 1/3 the price?
Also, in my circuit analysis of the CSET patent it seems that if the circuit was working with DC pulses as implied by the diode (which ever way you want to switch the polarity) there was no discharge path for the blocking capacitor. After a few cycles that capacitor would saturate and that would be the end of process - providing that we are working with something that obeys classical rules.
I maintain that the motors/engines were not the source of the OU. Neither was the switching HV power supply. The conversion from classical electricity to something else had to take place between these two sub systems. There is some evidence that the EMA4 severed as both an energy converter circuit and as a mechanical torque transducer. 120 degrees of rotation was devoted for energy production between the opposing 'Major' electromagnets while the rest of the rotation was used to used to produce torque. Certainly a novel (but clunky) approach. Hackenberger spent a lot of his time attempting to get the energy conversion process out of the rotary subsystem.
All of this Gray technology started off with opposing electromagnets with a spark between them (Popping Coils). I really doubt that the coils were wound as a common solenoids. We know from the 1973 photo that the coils used had three leads. If the cores were designed to spark to each other then that makes four (4) conductors to contend with. This could be a transformer of some sort. I rather like the idea that he had bifilar windings that were wired to act as two opposing Pulse Forming Networks. That configuration might reduce the inductive current limiting problems that standard mass driver designs run into. But the real action must have had something to do with the dynamic arc or the impact of the compressed and opposed magnetic fields upon it.
It appears that the harvest circuit has to be separate and independent from the excitation circuit. The attached photo (courtesy of Reggie Garcia) demonstrates what I'm thinking. In this photo the rotor has been removed to disclose the novel "coil within a coil". The slip ring is still attached and gets in the way of the view but you can still make out what is going on. I suspect that an equal amount of energy could have been harvested from the rotor electromagnets but there was just not enough room to install these harvest windings.
Mark McKay, PE
Attached Files
Leave a comment: