Bob Boyce TPU thread

[Bob Boyce]

Bob,

While we wait for our cores to arrive (and you wait for your wire to come), would you mind sharing with us how you did the original unstable "golf cart" experiment?  I read somewhere that you took three separate toroidal transformers and hooked up the primaries in a wye, then conected them to some kind of three phase source.  Each toriod's output was then rectified and combined with the other rectified outputs which gave O/U?  I am not sure if I have all of this correct; is there anything missing or wrong?

I scavenged these three identical toroidal transformers from old computer power supplies and would like to put them to good use.  I would like to see if my FPGA-based controller might be able to stabilize the power output (don't worry, I'd always run it with at least a small battery in the loop somewhere in case the controls failed! )

EDIT: As I have had more time to gain a better understanding of this technology, I guess my question should be: how did you manage to get the required interference patterns with three independent transformers?
EDIT2: I might have figured this out--I'll build and test it in the next couple of days and see if I'm right!   My description above is definitely incomplete!

Thank you,

Eldarion

As you apparently already surmised, they were not so independent that their fields did not blend. They were driven with the g-strain energy absorber, which already uses holes in P material to draw in electrons from the environment. It was set up as a free-running endless amplifier oscillator.

Bob

[Bob Boyce]

I decided not to wait, so I unwound one of my 8" hydroxy toroids for the secondary wire. A few passes back n forth on the lathe with some spools, and all the little bends were worked out. A day and night of winding and a crude secondary was born. Doesn't look like much... yet.

Bob

[Bob Boyce]

Now to begin the transformation. Using a vitamin C powder bottle, we lock the center in place, and melt in wax to solidly secure the windings in the toroid hole. We then use small beads of wax to preliminarily space the windings around the perimeter at the sides.

Bob

[Bob Boyce]

Measuring the outside diameter and using some math, it worked out that I needed about 0.080" of space between the windings around the perimeter. So off to Home Depot for some 0.080" weedwacker line. This was cut into 133 little pieces 1.5" long each. The toroid was taped around the center of the perimeter with winding tape. Then the spaces between the windings were filled with these cut bits of line, while keeping things tight.

Bob

[Bob Boyce]

With the perimeter well taped, the excess wax is removed and the windings on both sides straightened. I'm not finished, but too tired to do any more after another all-nighter. The former ugly duckling secondary is transforming into a swan before my very eyes ;-)

Bob