Hello everyone,
My brother and I are about to build a TPU also, following Otto's recent schematic and are having a bit of trouble itemizing the specific parts required.
Does anybody have an itemized parts list that they can post here for us (and others) to follow?
Sincerely,
Kelly & Michael C.
An excellent idea!!!
Stephan perhaps you can lock this thread once it contains a full parts list.
I think it is all in the PDF file from Otto and Roberto ?
If somebody posts again the parts list I will put it into the FAQ thread.
Thanks.
No Stefan, it "Is" but it's "Not"
And my apologies for not being more clear. I guess we were really just wondering if an "Itemized parts list", (for lack of better terminology) was more readily available, and could be included in here?
The components which are listed within Roberto and Otto's 55 page PDF document, seem to be scattered throughout it, and we are having some difficulty deriving what exactly we should purchase. So I was also thinking an Itemized Parts list could help benefit everyone. But, if nobody has one yet I think we will be able to figure it out sooner or later.
Sincerely,
Kelly and Michael C.
@SirKalin
I think it is a very good idea also.
The information IS scattered. Now we are talking about the second document. Which document? The more the threads advance, the less one can cope with all the clutter.
By the way I am doing this project with my brother also. He is an electronics whiz but he does not believe in OU potential so he is my best critical eye on the market.
I am in the process of making the rings and have purchased the drivers, etc., but the coils wire gauge is given in MM and we usually use AWG terminology. Someone mentioned 24 and 27 gauge but all I can find is 23 and 28.
There has to be a way to streamline the builders efforts and information from the clutter.
@Stefan
You closed the original Otto thread to then make the new thread to discuss the builing aspects but there is so much blah, blah going on on that thread that it is wasting time and distracting our attention.
You know what, I don't give a damn about people not believing or believing or people worrying about or not worrying about patenting and rights and all this other %?%sh*t that is being rambled on and on. Just build it, test it and report, otherwise go fly a kite in a thunderstorm and you will have OU.
It is a question of discipline. One part of discipline is posting well thought out posts, that you should read, and re-read, and re-read again before posting and ask yourself before posting it, is this really what I want to say or am I just reacting too quickly. So from what I gather, there needs to be the follow threads on otto.
1) Builders only thread.
2) FAQ's
3) Gossip column
4) Ripley's Believe it or not!
5) Looney bin corner
That way all will have a venue for their preferences and the others will be left to work on this.
All the best to everyone.
@ Wattsup
I agree completely and so does Stefan. He is going to be working towards that end as soon as possible, he is just tied for time at the moment. I know this, because I had suggested the exact same thing in private. (GMTA) :)
As far as the wire sizes, the closest I could get to the mentioned mm diameters were 26 gauge which is equivalent to 0.404 mm. 27 gauge would have been better, it is 0.361 mm but I could not find it at all. I am also using 24 gauge which is equiv. to 0.511 mm This is close to the 0.500 spec.
Now I had a dislexic moment and thought the control coils were to be stranded. :) I was able to find this at the above mentioned gauges. It is tinned copper stranded and can be purchased from frys.com for $4.99 for 100' roll. I am looking forward to comparing notes and seeing if more power is converted with stranded control coils.
I also am using 16 gauge lamp chord for the 6" and 4" collectors.
Cheers,
Bruce
Also, SM said "that he uses lamp chord to connect his amplifiers to his speakers", so I am going to be using stranded also to connect my Mosfet Circuit to "Mobius One-my ECD".
Pictures can be seen of "Mobius One" on my thread.
Cheers,
Bruce