Quantum Energy Generator (QEG) Open Sourced (by HopeGirl)

[TinselKoala]

@F_Brown: I use Ubuntu Linux, and algodoo/phun works fine for me.... ??

And of course, power is not energy. 20 kW from a ton of mass? No problem. Keep that output level going for longer than it takes the mass to fall down to the lowest point of its motion... then we can start the party!

[F_Brown]

Yeah, I know about aviation 400 Hz.  The shuttles had four 90 amp 28V 400Hz power circuits.

Who knows why James chose it?  He just said it had to do with mechanical resonance in the transformer lams... 

It's impossible for me to say anything about it without some hands on time.

[TinselKoala]

So the idea is to get everything vibrating mechanically as much as possible? Well, that certainly is "out of the box" thinking.


(Out of the CrackerJack box, maybe?)

[F_Brown]

I figure, if transformer laminations had any kind of piezo-electric or acoustic-electric effect it would be well known by now.

I estimate the DC resistance for each half of the primary winding to be 42 Ohms, that would be 84 ohms for the whole primary.  I figured the mean path length of 16" for each turn, multiplied by 3100 turns, added 48" for leads, divided by 12 to get feet, then multiplied by 0.01015 ohms per foot for 20awg wire to get 42 ohms for each half of the primary winding. 

[MarkE]

I figure, if transformer laminations had any kind of piezo-electric or acoustic-electric effect it would be well known my now.

Lamination stacks and to a greater extent the windings around them exhibit  magnetostrictive effects.  Manufacturers of quality line frequency magnetics adequately vacuum impregnate the finished magnetics with epoxy.  Manufacturers of junk like Hampton Bay ceiling fans from Home Depot save a few pennies by dispensing with good practices and as a result their products exhibit annoying line frequency hum.