dosn't this devise seem like a refinement on the Jacobs devise?
His was a coil contraption that built up a "residual charge" that could be used to light a bulb.
It looks to me like the coils store a high freqency charge and the secondaries are a conventional transformer tap.
I suspect the magnet fires the system up like a homopolar motor.
Jacobs needed a small battery in his system to kick start it and to keep the flow going.
I will bet that there is a battery in the toroid somewhere.
Jacobs used a modified dc electric motor to provide the "spark gap" for the high frequency circuit.
just my 2cts
Can you post a link to this jacob's device?
I don't recall reading about it anywhere.
Best regards,
Rich
I have looked and looked.
I remember it was 20 years ago or more.
the guy tried for a patent several times and went through a lot of hassle.
finally dropped out of sight.
I will keep looking.
the first time i remember seeing his machine it was a big slow rotating armeture in a 55 gallon drum.
he was on Jonny Carson and took an electric car on tour for a while that was powered by the machine.
Similar basis as David Hamel drum device. Hamel adds 2 more rotator layers to add harmonics. 3 layers.
Are you thinking of Joeseph Newman? He was on the Carson Show with an OU devise.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1610087835473512086&q=Newman+motor
Listen closely @ 37:20
And look who is right under this vid.. Its our own Stephan Hartman..
Very interesting, take another look at the open TPU and notice a cylinder in between the upper and lower rings. Is this a motor??
You know a motor wrapped up and hidden like in the later SM TPU's could have caused the slight vibration and the gyro effect...just a thought. And the heating effect.
I used Motorola pager motors as feedback mechanisms in robotic hands for amputees. They were connected to resistive strips for fingertip simulation and pressure measuement.
--giantkiller. 8)