Towards Realizing the TPU

[controlseng1962]

Hello All... I have read the paper put out by Otto and Robert and am wondering if any new headway has been made on the TPU device?  Has it been verified that it really is an OU device or not... Just asking as this is my first day and my first message on this board....

James

[EMdevices]

nice coils wattsup, keep at it !!

I was reading the Lester Hendershot papers over the weekend,  and it appears his device is not that much different then SM's tpu's,  if one understands what it's realy doing.

the main thing is that these devices  are tuned and they have high Q, which is key !    What has high Q?,  well try vibrational types of devices, like reeds, piezo, SAW, magnetostriction, etc... etc...

Hendershot was using the solenoid and the vibrating magnetic assembly,  SM I'm convinced is exploiting the magnetostriction properties of wires/rings (for the OTPU)

Hendershot was extracting energy from AM radio station,  was one engineer's point of view based on the inductance and capacitance values etc..,

SM was operating in proximity of powerlines which have a number of frequences ready to be harvested, the problem is they are low frequency and it's hard to come up with a high Q device (by conventional wisdom) at those frequencies, but he did it.   

@BEP, as you know, we are in the nearfield at 6 kHz and 150 feet away from the power lines, and are coupling inductively to the mag fields surrounding those lines.  Also, to say that we are harvesting em waves we would have to be a number of wavelengths away from the "transmiter" or radiating sturcture, so that we can say we are in the far field.   At 6 kHz  150 feet away we are definitley in the near field.

There is a way to amplify the energy received thousands of times with little or no power input, and the way to do it is by employing a high Q resonator.    We can also use REGENERATION, which in effect induces a positive feedback to lower the apparent resistance of the tank circuit therby increasing the Q.   

keep at it guys

EM

[slapper]

Hi EMdevices and all:

Would a piezo element, tuned to resonate at 6Khz, vibrate with exposure to the near field.

Perhaps some assistance: Having the piezo element mounted underneath the toroidal coil. Affix a magnet on the piezo element, maybe with a bead of hot melt for a spacer, dead center inside the toroidal coil. Piezo will most likely not produce much energy but lets say SM had access to some speaker coils. The speaker coil would be small enough to be mounted inside the toroidal coil as well with the magnet free to vibrate inside the speaker coil. The speaker coil would be secured inside the toroidal coil by using epoxy. Perhaps the toroidal coil is actually a speaker magnet with copper windings on it. The center magnet/piezo movement induces enough current to switch the speaker magnet off allowing the element to relax and sink/bow down starting the cycle over again at a rapid 6Khz rate. A battery may be able to be switched in at this rate by using the mechanical vibration of the element. Either way it could be touchy and an external magnet may have to be placed somewhere to influence this movement in a more productive way. Would not be able to turn it upside down though. This would change the mechanical characteristics and kill the process. Unless, however, one were to set it up where this assembly was put together for vertical assembly in mind as opposed to horizontal.

Maybe I should have placed this in one of the half baked threads.

Take care.

nap

[BEP]

@EM

So you are thinking the power transmission lines are the opera singer and the TPU is the wine glass?

It is not difficult to make a loop of metal have a high vibrational Q, but at a harmonic factor of 100?

Even with low frequency loop antennae, the coupling loop, as small as it is, and the driven element do not use conventional induction to perform the coupling. (Yes, many will disagree with this and some designs use other coupling methods)

[Mannix]

Em,
Would you say that Henry Moray Tapped the power lines as well?