New TPU build

[MasterPlaster]

Out of box thinking:
For core material:
I am not into UFOs but please watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwrKeqDqQuE&feature=channel_page
around 3:44.

We've got to float this shit or we are done for.

[Grumpy]

LOL Grumpy, that was a good one
It's bep's "bucking point" or my allready described radial field pattern that's moving along the collector while a current ispassing the same, when the direction of that current and the direction of that pattern are right you get your toy:self amplifying current ,don't stop the process at the right time and you'll get a boom .As allready said it's all about interaction between coils (actually fields).

Radial magnetic field

Hmm

A curious observation is that when direct current is first applied to a conductor, little metal things like paper clips strung along the length of the wire will flip around as if a magnet moved in a helix along the wire.

[Farrah Day]

On further research I see that the Mobius loop is mentioned in a couple of TPU designs. However, I cant see how round wire could ever become a Mobius loop... surely this can only apply to flat ribbon-like lengths of material. This seems to be another area of confusion.

Also, the shape of SM's devices is worth giving some thought. His collector coils are not circular and uniformly radial, the collector coil clearly has more height than width.   

[Mk1]

On further research I see that the Mobius loop is mentioned in a couple of TPU designs. However, I cant see how round wire could ever become a Mobius loop... surely this can only apply to flat ribbon-like lengths of material. This seems to be another area of confusion.

Also, the shape of SM's devices is worth giving some thought. His collector coils are not circular and uniformly radial, the collector coil clearly has more height than width.

The basic thing about mobius coil is that the winding direction changes at mid point , or maybe better Phi solution could also be used to calculate mid point.

Mark

[Farrah Day]

As far as I'm aware a Mobius loop effectively only has one side whereas it intitially appears to have two. I don't see how this term can possibly be applied to round wire which only has one side to start with. Yet looping the collector coil back on itself could possibly cancel out the back emf making it very efficient as per a Tesla bifilar coil.

Anyway, again on further research it would seem to me that SM's device most closely resembles the Tesla device than anything else I've seen. But I believe Tesla used a core as a former, not the collector as many are suggesting.

Yet more intrigue.

Something else I found interesting was this quote (thanks Dutchy):

Yes Norbert, we did try them south of the equator, they work in reverse.
Can someone tell me why?

This statement would really tend to suggest interaction with the Earth's magnetic field rather than interstellar, or cosmic background radiation.  This is also backed up somewhat by the gyroscopic effect mentioned elsewhere.