Steven Mark`s TPU

[EMdevices]

Merry Xmas Otto and all,   

Did Santa bring you a TPU?      LOL 

EM

P.S.  Keep at it guys, we'll get it in 2008... or maybe 2009   Ha  Ha 

[EMdevices]

Take a look at US patent # 5383362

It deals with vibratory gyroscopes in the form of a ring.   Nothing moves, just acoustic/vibration waves go round and round.  It will give you some idea of what could be happening in the iron wire collector of the TPU.

1)  Frequencies are input into the vertical control wires of the TPU, to cause a rotational magnetic field (RMF).

2)  Due to magnetostriction,  the RMF causes deformation of the wire and hence actual vibration waves accompany it.

3)  These physical vibratory waves in the iron ring cut through magnetic fields and produce current by induction.  In the right configuration you can get DC output.

EM

P.S.  It's important to hit the vibratory resonant frequency of the ring not the electrical wavelength.  A beat frequency oscillator (heterodyning) principle will come in handy to hit that low frequency.

[wattsup]

@M@rcel

Congrats on your first post.
Regarding serializing Litz wire is very difficult to do if it is not bundled Litz wire.
See on t his link Type 3, 5 and 6..
http://www.neewc.com/litz.asp
This is a good page for Litz sizes and strands.
http://www.comax.uk.com/productinfo/litz_wire_selection.htm

@EM

Interesting patent. Thanks.

@All

Further to my last two posts, just to show what I mean by having a mag field in the center and Litz on the outer with an audio frequency, I have finally made a first video and have placed it on youtube at;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXgL4Wf8zrQ

Now if the Litz wire was bundled, I could use one or two bundles for the audio frequencies and the balance of the bundles would simply vibrate in a mag field producing energy. So the same wire would produce two results. At least this is the theory and I will be building a small scale unit as per Alt. 2a and test this soon.

[M@rcel]

Being a beginner, I was thinking the following:

What if:
- The collector coil is iron wire (few turns), made to oscillate using a capacitor (normal LC oscillator) at it's natural frequency frequency (resonance)
- The control coils (around the collector) pulse this oscillation to sustain it and lead out electromagnetic energy (as in Tseungs leadout theory).
- The pickups (litze around the collector).
- The oscillating waveform on the collector would be a sinus, the pickup (output) would be a sinus, too
- The control waveform would be pulsed DC, timing dependant on the signal level measured by the pickups (eg, pulse x microsecs after descend to 0V on pickup)
- Control coil pulse amplitude controlled to stabilize pickup voltage (for load correction)

It's probably very naive and too simple, but it just keeps spinning around in my head

[otto]

Hello all,

@EM

Santa didnt know that Im working on my TPU in my garage so .....

@All

if you look a little closer to the 3 stack you can see that 2 control coils are connected together. The top and bottom controls. This means that this 2 controls are pulsed thogether and this means that the top and bottom collectors are rotated in the same direction. And the middle control and collector coil?? Pulsed in the contra way!!

In short: top and bottom controls and collectors in 1 direction, middle control and collector in the contra direction.

Of course, each control and collector in SERIES.......like "dfro" teached us. Not to forget the caps....

A time ago I thought I was clever and used the controls "tapped" into the collectors. It was great but to connect the controls in SERIES with the collectors is genious!!!

Otto