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Installment #4

Dear E.V. Gray Researchers,

Here are three better views of the ?CSET? devices that were used with the EMA6 at the 1/9/76 stockholders meeting.

I have already expressed my technical and political views on this device. These photos are offered for researchers that have a different professional opinion (good for you) and are looking for additional information.

Take a close look at photo CSET4 300-4. Notice the large gauge (about #12 AWG or greater) bare copper wire that appears to be connected to the 1? in diameter center electrode. It also appears to be connected to the large white wire that goes directly to the motor case. In the CSET patents it is the ?grid? that is suppose to connect to the motor, not one of the electrodes. You draw your own conclusions.

Keep in mind that the CSET patent documents didn?t get started for another 8 years after these photos were taken. It seems to me that is a long delay in seeking protection for the heart of an age-changing technology ? but I wasn?t there to know the whole story.

I know that John Bedini?s field notes describe a circuit that is a dead ringer for the CSET patent drawings, but I just can?t get all these clues to jive just right to follow the detailed technical evolution of this circuit.

In photo CSET 300-5 you can also see another bare copper wire connecting the CSET to a terminal on the dual capacitor.


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Installment #5

Dear E.V. Gray Researchers,

Here is an out of focus photo of the front end of the EMA4-E2 taken in 1974.

Take a close look at the little rectangular box that is in the middle of the blue support arm that holds the DC motor/generator.

I use to think this feature was a circuit board that probably was some kind of a speed transducer. Boy, was I wrong. The new photos show what it really is. The old B&W photo that I got this erroneous idea from was the 1973 article by Jack Scagnetti. This just shows you how bad conclusions can easily be drawn from poor photos.

It really is a view port that was machined right through the motors front face. From another photo you can see that the front place is about 2? thick. Marvin Cole certainly didn?t want any slippage in his front shaft bearings.  I suppose the rear motor plate is just as thick, but it was intended to support a transmission. The Plexiglas is about ?? thick.

This feature did not exist on this motor in late 1971 it was added during one of the many remodels and upgrades. This pretty well proves that design and programming improvements were still taking place after the motor was first built.

The important technical fact (to me any way) is that you can see the rotor through the window. This is the only photo in existence that shows anything about the EMA4-E2 rotor. As you can tell it follows the patent really close. There had been some speculation by some researchers who thought the rotor was really a single electromagnet design and not the ?Major- Minor? structure that we see now.

In this view there has been a re-arrangement of the outboard support devices compared to the 1971 model. Here the alternator has been replaced with a DC generator which also serves as a DC start motor. The air pump has been relocated to the position on the left. I think this is definite improvement in layout. Not only were they able to eliminate one outboard device (and its V-belt) but the air piping is much simpler and straight forward.

The unlabeled electronics box on the left is also the result of some post 1971 improvement. I speculate (and you got to watch me on these speculations) that it is a control box for two strobe lamps, one for the motor and one for the switching system. When this box appeared there was an additional toggle switch that was added between the two lower meters on the motor control panel. It is labeled ?CTL LAMP?.


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Installment #6

Dear E.V. Gray Researchers,

Here is a B&W professional photo taken of the EMA4-E1 when it was first completed in late 1971. This is one view of a series of three photos done in the same period.

You may have seen this photo a number of times. This one sports an automatic transmission. With the higher resolution scan we can focus on the mysterious component ?The Floating Flux Field?.

I won?t bore you with a long lecture on the significance of this novel feature. I?ve spent many moons beating my head against the wall attempting to figure out what this strange inductor like component does. The main thing to consider is that Marvin Cole thought it was very important. It shows up in five of his drawings in the Gray Pulse Motor Patent. It is labeled as item #114 and/or #23/#24.

In the patent Dr. Chalfin says ??we believe it to be a delay line.? which means he didn?t have a clue. I have always got a laugh out of that line. How can the creator of this technology be so uncertain about the purpose of his own work?  Obviously, neither he nor E.V. Gray came up with this component.

A similar component also shows up in the early ?Coil Popping? photos. In comparing these two implementations it appears that their structure is more similar than I thought. What I see in the enlargement FFF photo is a 10 turn - two layer structure composed of some large black cable. The single white cable, on the right, is a set of bundled control conductors going to the power supply from the control panel. The irregular white strip on the left is added insulation in between the two layers to help better separate the cables from each other. This implies there is some high voltage potential at this location that needs to be dealt with.

My examination of the size of these cables yields a diameter of between ?? to ??. I suspect that there are 12 unit power supplies in this motor. If each supply were provided with a common FFF component, as described in the pulse motor patent, then a 12 conductor cable would be needed. Common control cables generally offer 19 conductors because they pack so nice that way, but 12 conductor cables are available.

What is the purpose of this strange device? Well, I?ll be the first to say I don?t know for sure but don?t overlook its importance. Its size, its location, and its construction are all very specific and show up in two of Marvin Cole?s systems. For some reason Mr. Hackenburger didn?t include a similar device on the EMA6 and that may have been one reason why his model fell on its nose. (I?m sure there are other reasons).

If you have studied the fine details of the Tesla table top oscillators, especially the lecture to the New York Academy of Science in 1897 you will find a strange reference about how the distance and orientation of the storage capacitor had to be to the secondary of the output transformer. From my classical training this association serves no useful function at all, but if Dr. Tesla was referring to some non-disclosed non-classical process then we might have a better understanding as to what the FFF might really be for.

I speculate that it is a feedback antenna. It also serves as providing some additional EMI reduction benefits as well; in fact it might have started out just for that purpose. The anomalous processes that are taking place in the motor radiate outward and are partially harvested by this devise, then fed back to the power supply where the speculated non-classical energy is recycled in a positive feedback loop. After a number of cycles the concentration of this non-classical energy reaches a point where is can do some serious mechanical work - for free.

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Installment #7

Dear E.V. Gray Researchers,

Here are two photos to consider as you attempt to make sense out of all this information in the differences between Marvin Cole?s work and that of Richard Hackenburger?s.

I still maintain that Richard did the best he could with what he had, but we still have to evaluate performance if we wish to establish how we are going to best invest our limited time and resources reverse engineering these systems.

Consider the apparatus shown in photo Dyno 72-5. This is what Marvin Cole used to provide a measurable load for his motor. It is essentially an oil pump. The high pressure side is forced through a small orifice of a known size while pressure readings are taken on either side. Some general fluid flow calculations will yield the energy dissipated. From that that exercise the motor output HP is determined ? or at least that is how I think it works, but I need to have this reviewed by a professional who works in this area.

I?m making my best guess on what the gauges are. The large gauge on the upper right is a 2% 600 psi pressure gauge to establish the magnitude of the high pressure. The smaller black gauge on the upper left is a lower range pressure meter (I guess up to 90 psi) that establishes the pressure on the low side of the orifice. The lower left black gauge is a 200? temperature gauge that is used to adjust the calculations as the oil heats up.

I would guess this system had a limit of about 150 HP. Heat was dissipated from a small air cooled transmission radiator underneath the EMA4-E2 equipment stand.

Now, take a look at what Richard had to work with in photo Pony Brake 72-3. This is a 2? wide leather strap supporting a 50 lb weight. The strap goes to a near by bench and connects to a fish (spring type) scales. By multiplying the weight registered on the scales by the speed of the motor and then by a conversion factor the general output HP could be determined.

This ?Pony Brake? method has no way to dissipate the heat generated so it is only good for very short and low power measurements. A 2 HP output would be in its range for a short run, but not much more than that or the leather would start to smoke. In fact, it they were getting anything near 100 HP the strap would be on fire in about 2 seconds.

Now which motor do you think the Japanese would offer $12 million for (in 1973 dollars) and which motor do you think investors would walk out the door and write off their losses?


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Installment #8

Dear E.V. Gray Researchers,

Here are two photos to consider as you attempt to solve the mysteries of the Marvin Cole Power Supply system.

This is as much as anyone (that I know of) has seen of under the hood of the EMA4-E2 power supply. For size reference the ?hood? is about 24? wide.

I have counted those yellow wires (They appear to be 7mm Spark Plug Wires) several times using a graphics program and I still only come up with 12 wires in two groups of 6 hanging on that white support bar.

Now 12 power supplies just happens to match the number of pole sets used. There are 9 stator poles and three rotor poles = 12 poles total. So I assume one power supply for each pole.

In another photo you can see what looks like two large spark plugs mounted on one side of the hood (I assume they are on both sides). My thought is that these are some of the over voltage safety gaps.

There is also a note in the Pulse motor patent that describes that 18 capacitors are used. I don?t know how 12 power supplies divide into 18 capacitors, but I?m not done yet.

Take from this what you will.

The date on the Hood1 photo is 5/30/74

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