Astounding, yet entirely predictable.

@PW: One of the bags of parts my friend gave me contains 25 each Motorola MC1590G broadband amplifiers, new old stock. I looked them up and found this "low" price.... other places have them listed for even more.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Unused-Motorola-MC1590G-Amp-w-AGC-Round-Can-IC-/220746958368

I might have a use for two or three of them. The rest.... well, first I'm going to let him know their value in case he wants them back, then we shall see if I can convert any of them to spendable gold.

TK, PW:

The computer was built for a friend that you might consider to be a "power casual user" but not a 3D gamer.

I read on Newegg.com and picked components.  I also cannibalized parts from another computer, the box, the VGA card ($200 GeForce from three years ago), hard drives, and the DVD drive.

The heart of the system is the newish AMD 8-core processor.  The new FX-Series has gotten a lot of lukewarm and bad press, but it can be argued that that's all hard-core nitpicking.  You read the comments on Newegg to get a sense of what people think.  It screams and you figure 8-cores is somewhat future-proof.

So after looking at options and reading user reviews and such, this is the heart of the setup:

Motherboard:  GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+
Processor:  AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz
Fan:  COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1
Memory:  G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333

Throw in a power supply and you have a super-supercomputer for about $600 less the operating system.  It's amazing.

There is a dual-tuner Hauppauge video card in the box, one tuner is old-fashioned and picks up the conventional Channel 3 signal from the cable box.  The other tuner is a HD ATSC over-the-air tuner.  The one card can display two channels (NTSC and ATSC) in two separate video windows.  The CPU isn't doing much for the NTSC display, and the CPU, and possibly the video card GPU have to decompress the ATSC signal.  This takes about 7% of the available computing power to accomplish this task and only a fraction of the available memory.

It's not the fastest possible memory or an ultra fast video card (but was three years ago) and the motherboard is not a high-end motherboard, but it's a medium-range quality motherboard.  I have to assume that it's actually a formidable gaming machine also, but it's not in nose-bleed gaming territory at all.

All in all, it's amazing!

MileHigh

What's really amazing is what you can learn on the internet.

Did you know that TK, MileHigh, and FuzzyTomcat are all obvious plants? Yep. They fit the profile of paid disinformation agents to the T.
Did you know that picowatt is Harvey Gramm?
Or that fuzzytomcat is a plagiarist, or that TK keeps endorsing "the technology" that he is maligning at the same time?
Did you know that Groundloop's circuit is able to "move the battery voltage into FULL negative voltage values" ?

And all this time I thought it was .99's circuit that I modified and used with a capacitor to DEMONSTRATE those "FULL negative voltage" values. How wrong can a person be.

The key line for me is this one:

"However we're still to prove that the measured benefits also reflect on gains to the batteries' rated performance. But our early indications are that these results are also 'in the bag'."

That is an open admission by Rosemary that she has never proven her batteries last longer than they should = NO OVERUNITY PERFORMANCE EVER, and after all she has been at this for more than a decade so those early indications sure are taking a long time to manifest.

The only other option is that excess energy is being produced in the form of heat radiated from the circuit components, but as calorimetric testing by the RATS has been useless, and no readings have ever been taken of components that radiate heat like the mosfet's, then no evidence to support the conjecture there either, which makes this line perfectly reasonable:

"I'm entirely satisfied you'll be able to replicate what we've got."

For once Rosemary and I are in complete agreement.

And let's not forget this page because it's such a good read:

http://www.overunity.com/11675/another-small-breakthrough-on-our-nerd-technology/915/