locating Steve Mark´s TPU demonstration house

[sparks]

   Power companies rectify long runs to get rid of selfinductance losses of the transmission lines.     The kicks from the diode transient dip when your talking megawatts can be quite disruptive to the field.  I lived near some high tension lines once until one foggy night my electric meter was outlined in blue corona and the truck I was going to get in.  Between that and the microwave towers on the same hill powering up remote phones with no batteries in them I got the hell out of there soon as the lease expired.

[kames]

@EMdevices

As soon as you try to load a device the Q of the device will go down to a very low value and impedance matching won't help.
This is a very basic stuff.

Kames.

[poynt99]

By the time you get up to 6kHz on your spectrogram (which is not shown, but probably very dark in color, meaning weak), there is very little "signal" to capture with the tuned loop antenna.

[EMdevices]

I spent so much time on this damn project and yes I'm mad.  But one man's incompetence (SM) is no excuse for me, I should of checked this out first.  The simplest explanations are almost always the correct ones.  But I doubt SM was just incompetent like Jack Durbin has said, he was outright devious.

EM

p.s. kames,  the FTPU was demonstrated unloaded,  but you right if loaded the Q will change, however there are tricks one can use.  this is by far not fully figured out, as he seems to use the vertical wires around it as well, perhaps transmission line used as resonator, or some other exotic principle.

p.s.  Rload gets transformed when the device is loaded, and as kames said the Q suffers, which implies that we need a high winding ratio to minimize the Q loading effect.

Also,  he could be using one of the loops on the bottom or maybe another loop we can't see as being separate from the two stacks,  to pick up the magnetic energy.  this is the magnetic coupling way of doing it, instead of using the ferrite as the output transformer and the main inductance.

[kames]

go measure the RF around power-lines before you open your mouth.

I spent so much time on this damn project and yes I'm mad.  But one man's incompetence (SM) is no excuse for me, I should of checked this out first.  The simplest explanations are almost always the correct ones.  But I doubt SM was just incompetent like Jack Durbin has said, he was outright devious.

EM

p.s. kames,  the FTPU was demonstrated unloaded,  but you right if loaded the Q will change, however there are tricks one can use.  this is by far not fully figured out, as he seems to use the vertical wires around it as well, perhaps transmission line used as resonator, or some other exotic principle.

p.s.  Rload gets transformed when the device is loaded, and as kames said the Q suffers, which implies that we need a high winding ratio to minimize the Q loading effect.

Honestly, I don’t believe in such tricks. Here is from my own practical experience. A wire (it was a communication/signal cable tested on a single wire), about a mile long, almost under, under the 100K power line in the afternoon can give away about 500 watts.
Here is another one, also from a practical experience. A rail (railways) a 13 km long under a 3K electric line gives out about 100 watts.
Do you really want to spend your time on testing the power lines theory?

Kames.