user TURBO?s replication of Steven Mark?s TPU ?

[Paul-R]

This board has grave bandwidith problems, I think. Will
this distribution make it worse or not count as bandwidth? If
the latter, it will help a lot.
Paul.

[hartiberlin]

Okay,
now back to the technical side of things.
When looking at the "stolen" pictures from
Dave
( okay it was not authorized by Dave,
but okay, now as they are here we can at least
have a look at it, is it okay with you, Dave ?)
it is getting clear,
that his TPU is just all in all 22 coils only !
Nothing more !
No batteries , just 22 coils to connect the right way..

I look at the picture:
tpuv3b.jpg

I can see, that there are 3 white about 10 to 20 windings white
wires cores.
You can see each core?s 2 white wire ends coming out of each core.
So he seems to have used just multistranded isolated copper wire
all the same wire sizes for his TPU.

These 3 white cores seems to be the output coils.

Now the question is, are the 3 cores in series
or are they somehow Bifilar connected, so something
cancels out ?
At least you can see, that they are not all in parallel, otherwise
all 6 white wires would be connected in a 2 x 3 connection,
which it is not !


Okay, now on each of the 3 white cores,
there are 6 coils wound around.
You can see it quite clearly if you look closer.
It seems these coils only have one layer,
so they only have about 20 windings each.

So and around all the 3 cores is finally
a one layer black wire coil.

This all together makes 22 coils.

Now in the video tpu13.AVI
you can see how they are wired and also
from the other pics posted here by Mr. Z.

each end of the 6 colored coils around the white core
are interconnected directly inside the tpu,
how exactly, this will Dave probably tell us soon.

A hint would be to look at the colors.
Each color is 2 times available on the white core.
Maybe the color pairs are just in series there
or are parallel, so that the flux from each repells
and the flux goes out into the core center.

This would also make sure that always the flux is
inducing something into the black outer coil,
when the repelled flux from each color pair
is rotating in the center.

Okay,
Then look at  tpuv3d.jpg or in the video tpu13.AVI
and see how each stack of colored coils are interconnected.

It seems each core?s driver colored coils are parallel connected
outside at  each start ofthe driver coil wire and at the end of each
driver coil wire they are connected INTERNALLY to the next coil,
so only each 2nd wire end will stick out.
Finally the 3 Blue ends are connected to 1 black wire
and each other blue wire is connected to the NEXT COLOR !
That means the driver pulses travel from one core to the next up and
down also, so that is also has a phase shift VERTICALLY !
So this whole thing works like a 3dimensional vortex.
The last black wire coil end is connected to a blue and red coil cable end.

The question still is, how the 3 white core coils are interconnected
with each other. If they are in a bifilar way connected, just 2 coils could
kill each others flux and the 3rd must be in parallel then, but it seems all
3 white core coils are just in series, as no connection has more than 2 cables connected...

Well, so it seems this TPU is pretty cheaply to build.
Just a genuine right connection of isolated copper wire, nothing else.
The resonance frequency of the coils is set by its stray capacitance C
and its inductivity L, so for this setup I could imagine a frequency
of around 5 kHz would be quite right...

Well, indeed a very well engineered success !
Congratulations Dave !
You are a real "coil" master !

Regards, Stefan.

[mrd10]

Stefan and All,

Lets give these guys a chance, they have been working very hard, lets give credit where its due, patience my friends, patience, it will come.

Dom

[archon79]

So how does the use of magnets come into all this? Or was that a bit of misdirection on the part of SM to protect his intellectual property when showing to investors?

[hartiberlin]

So how does the use of magnets come into all this? Or was that a bit of misdirection on the part of SM to protect his intellectual property when showing to investors?

There are at least 3 different models of SM?s TPUs.
Maybe the earlier models needed a quick induction from one magnet
and maybe the open TPU needed the magnet too,
as there were not 3 cores stacked, but just one core.

As SM does not come forward with more information,
it is all speculation so far.

Regards, Stefan.