Theories concerning Hans Coler's Stromerzeuger

[Vortex1]

Smudge:

Thank you for showing up on this forum.  Have you already seen this paper from Howard Reiss? Pages 24, 25, 26 of the attached document considers using the dielectric of a transmission line as the source fuel in a "nuclear" way.

Kind Regards,
Vortex1

[Smudge]

Smudge:

Thank you for showing up on this forum.  Have you already seen this paper from Howard Reiss? Pages 24, 25, 26 of the attached document considers using the dielectric of a transmission line as the source fuel in a "nuclear" way.

Kind Regards,
Vortex1

Vortex,

That's interesting but input powers in the tens of megawatts is a bit beyond your average experimenter.

Smudge

[Smudge]

Here is another paper this time looking at the Corbino Effect that usually applies to discs.  It is shown that this can also apply to cylindrical geometry.  Then the Inverse Corbino Effect (where circular currents are induced magnetically) can yield a Hall voltage, in the disc case the voltage appears crom center to edge and in the cylindrical case the voltage appears from end to end.  The induced circular currents being at RF the Hall voltage along the cylinder is also RF.  Clearly this could apply to the Stromerzeuger Fe rods.

Enjoy

[Vortex1]

Hi Smudge

Read the paper, the 180kHz experiment should not be hard to do, have you or anyone attempted it? Shouldn't take much to give it a whirl.

Regarding the Reiss paper, perhaps megawatts for microseconds is in the range of the experimenter, especially if you pump the transmission line such that extremely narrow pulses are reflected from the ends or use a ring resonator.

I've got a few thousand feet of 14 Ga thermocouple grade iron wire on hand (Hoskins Mfg.). Is this pure enough for experimenting  along these lines?

Regards, Vortex1

[Smudge]

Hi Smudge

Read the paper, the 180kHz experiment should not be hard to do, have you or anyone attempted it? Shouldn't take much to give it a whirl.

Regarding the Reiss paper, perhaps megawatts for microseconds is in the range of the experimenter, especially if you pump the transmission line such that extremely narrow pulses are reflected from the ends or use a ring resonator.

I've got a few thousand feet of 14 Ga thermocouple grade iron wire on hand (Hoskins Mfg.). Is this pure enough for experimenting  along these lines?

Regards, Vortex1

Hi Vortex1,

I would think any form of iron could be experimented with, although Coler used a pure form (probably Swedish iron originally then in 1946/47 he used Armco iron).  His rods were 3/4 inch diameter so the use of thin wire might not be productive, but worth a try anyway.  I think the state of the iron is important, it needs to be annealed so as to give it soft properties.  I have some small rods obtained from Goodfellow and they are hard both mechanically and magnetically, and I haven't had any success with these.

Regarding the Reiss paper even megawatt pulses are beyond the reach of your average experimenter, but should be no problem for a decent electronics lab.   I have experience in pulsed radar where such power levels are not unusual, but the waveguide/coax has to be able to withstand the high voltages.  There are pulse narrowing techniques using saturating ferrite where you start with a wide low-power pulse and end up with a high-power narrow pulse.  This simplifies the inital pulse modulator and could bring it into the realm of the home experimenter.

Smudge