Testing the TK Tar Baby

[TinselKoala]

Stop baiting... She is already more than confused...

Oh, no. She isn't confused at all. It is WE who are confused. She is perfectly clear in her mind and has no doubt whatsoever that she is fully and completely correct, and all the things that we think are her misunderstandings and confusions are actually "failures" in what she calls "standard model", which would become clear if we would only read her daft manuscripts.

Again, I suggest she find an individual qualified in electronics to assist with her tests.

What person, qualified in electronics _ according to normal standards_ , could sit down with her for half an hour discussing background, test apparatus and protocols, and come away still willing and able to participate? Her co-author Evan Robinson is supposed to be knowledgeable in these matters.... but then his web design portal still thinks it's 2010, so who knows.

It is not reasonable to expect that someone with her limited understanding will be able to implement .99's suggestion regarding the use of caps wthout understanding the properties of various types of caps and the need for very short connections between the CSR and the negative most battery terminal (as well as the cap leads).  Even a 4" length of 12 gauge wire is 1.4 ohms at 2.5MHz.

Agreed, completely. It is not reasonable at all to believe that she will construct or test competently her apparatus without help, and further it is not reasonable, I believe, to expect anyone knowledgeable to help her. Witness .99's efforts, and he isn't even there to be hornswaggled by her mendacity in person.

The best non-indcutive resistor I can find for the CSR (with inductance data provided) would be a Caddock TO-3P unit.  Inductance is specified as 10nHy if connections are .2" from the package.  Even this represents a significant error (.157 ohms) at 2.5MHz.

But that is in a TO-3P package. How long before she's calling its pins "gate" and "source", and wondering where the middle pin went?

I would suggest soldering the CSR immediately to and at a wire clamped to the negative most battery terminal.  Also, I would suggest increasing the CSR value to as much as 1 ohm to reduce the % of error from lead inductance.

I am almost certain that the USA laboratory sent her a good non-inductive shunt resistor or two to use. She has said that they sent her some "special resistors" and I can think of no other reason or kind of "special resistors" that would be important for her to use, or any other reason for the lab, which disconfirmed her claims of battery non-discharge, to send any kind of resistors at all. But she's not going to be giving us any details of her open source project, unless they support, or can be twisted to appear to support, her contentions. Contrary data is always ignored or suppressed by Ainsile: since it does not jive with her "thesis" it must be wrong and so must be omitted from consideration.

She really needs to find a qualified individual to assist in making/documenting accurate measurements and to ensure safety.

Yep. One that somehow understands the issues, but who also somehow can work with the domineering, willfully ignorant and overweeningly arrogant Rosemary Ainslie.

Seen any hen's teeth lately? I think there's a box of them out by the barrels of propwash. You'll need a left-handed hammer to open the box, though... somebody put all the nails in backwards.

[picowatt]

Her latest rant at Volter regarding capacitance and amperage only further demonstrates that she knows very close to nothing about electronics, including simple passive components.

I doubt very much that she could calculate the reactance of a 12" length of .08" wire at 2.5MHz, even though links to "plug in the numbers" online calcultors were provided to her.  To her, a wire is just a wire...

She should be very glad that the EE's that designed her computer knew way more than she ever will. 

Until she can admit that there is indeed +12 volts being applied to the gate of Q1 in FIG 3, she only continues to further demonstrate that she does not even know how to use an oscilloscope.

Again, if she wants to present any credible evidence regarding her circuit and claims, she needs to find someone qualified in electronics to assist with performing and documenting her tests.  And doing so safely...


ADDED:  Incorrectly stating capacitance values in her last two posts was the least of the errors and demonstrated lack of understanding contained within them...

[TinselKoala]

Here's a capacitor bank for your consideration and amusement.

I just unhooked the two, 1.9 Megohm bleeders so I could get a good capacitance measurement for this series-parallel stack.

Across the whole thing it measures just under 1 nanoFarad, and from middle copper bus to outer it measures just under 2 nF.

The individual caps are rated at 30 kV, so across the whole thing it will handle 60 kV. This unit normally operates fully submerged in circulating, cooled oil, and it itself is part of a bank of 4 identical sub-banks.

Would anyone like to speculate on the current handling ability of this little capacitor bank of one nanoFarad capacitance? The need for the large copper busplates? The heavy braided copper ribbon cables that connect it into its circuit? The 1.9 megohm, 10 Watt bleeders? Does the term "kiloAmperes" mean anything in Ainslie-speak?

Probably not.

[TinselKoala]

Holy carp. I just looked in over there. Un believable.

Will somebody please remind her that she is NOT getting 0.8 Farads, or anything even close to that, in her 150 Rand capacitor? She is buying a THOUSAND TIMES LESS, at 800 microFarads.

We have sourced a cap 708 - 890 micro farads - ac - voltage 330 - 275 volts at R150.00

So if she buys enough of those caps to make 0.8 F..... it will cost.... er.... um..... well DO THE MATH (tm RA).

ETA: Notice too that she blames Volter for misunderstanding her "typo".

[TinselKoala]

And while we are at it, will someone please point to just where I claimed that 2 nanoFarads of inductance can pass upwards of 40 amps?

I need to edit that right away.