Eds design

[Spokane1]

Dear Gyula,

Nice idea if I were not so far in the tooly-weeds with a phone connection that runs at about 2KB/sec even with msn.com compression assistance. I would have to be on line all evening to upload one file. Needless to say I'm unable to receive YouTube clips as well.

At work almost everything is blocked and processing large files is frowned upon, even after hours. This new photo collection is on 7 CD's. I think I can get it all on to one DVD.

But, don't worry I fully intend to make these available in file sizes that we all can work with. I just don't have the program to do it right now or I would be sending them out already. There are just a few details in these photos that really need all this high resolution - like the labels on the control panel of the EMA4-E2 and the exact number of turns in the Floating Flux Field (FFF) component. Also there are a number of photos that are not worth passing on but some are real technical gems (to me anyway).

They were all acquired from an early investor who wishes to be only known as GD. He was involved in the E.V. Gray saga from 1974 to late 1976. He claims to have had a close relationship with Richard Hackenburger. GD also has a collection of about 30 audio tapes of meetings and phone conversations with Mr. Hackenburger. So far I have had the opportunity to listen to about a third of this material. Several of the cassette tapes became unglued and are in need of repair. The content is 99% business related since GD had a letter of intent that allowed him to seek venture capital for a commission. But there are a few interesting technical comments that I intend to write up for this community. Several of the new points were commented on in the last post.

For example, GD and Hackenburger were discussing the manufacturing costs of making the "ElectroStatic Generator" (This was Richard's favorite device). GD said that his potential investors were worried about the cost of the custom made transformer that was part of the "Blue Box". Richard responded that the transformer was indeed special, but it was nothing that a transformer winding shop couldn't produce for a 10% premium. - So I wonder, just what can be done to a power transformer that would only add 10% to its manufacture and would still be considered a novel feature? From other historical research I suspect that this was a current limited design that employed a small air gap or magnetic shunt for magnetic leakage.

I know from previous research that E.V.Gray (or Marvin Cole) was having the Mallory Electric Company (not P.M. Mallory that makes the Blue Capacitors)  build these custom ignition coils. The Mallory company was involved with Gray at least as early as 1970 as observed in the GD documents.

Pardon me for rambling on so long about this subject, but it has been a long time since we have had any new material to work with.

Spokane1

[fletchdaf]

Here is a new photo of the EMA6 from 1/9/76 Stockholders Meeting to add to your collections...
If anyone had any idea of the principles of the Marvin Cole technology it was Richard - certainly not Gray.

Spokane1

There's only one person I know who has this level of detailed knowledge on the EVGray technology and company.  "MkMc".  How are you, my friend?

Dennis F, Calgary Canada.

[ourbobby]

Hi  Spokane1,  you couldls try opening the images in windows Paint program and then save them as jpeg. You should get the option of the resize parameters. Just a thought for all us EVGray afficionados!

thanks

[Spokane1]

Dear Dennis,

I'm doing just fine and even more so after this last interview trip. It is certainly refreshing to find a person who was involved in this story that can still remember some facts. Unfortunatly GD has no technical information to share. Never the less I'm finding a great value in what he has offered. GD is the source of the original "Investor Photos" that Peter Lindemann and John Bedini received in Post Falls, ID about 3-4 years ago. At the time GD wanted to remain annomonus. But, now he wishes that all of what he knows is made avaliable to serious researchers. The photos are probably his most valuable asset. He still wishes to be known as GD. He hopes that something can become of this lost technology that he devoted several years to.

Send me an email at work and I'll send you my usual rambling monographs and drawings on this subject that keep changing with the times.

For the last few months I have been exploring Water Arcs, Tesla Velocity Transformers, and learning how to use a freeware Finite Element Magnetic Modeling (FEMM) program.

After this load of material I might find a new direction to keep me busy this winter.

Spokane 1

[pomodoro]

The above image is what John Bedini reckons Ed's setup looks like. Look at the diode going from the battery to the tube. How will the current ever flow from the +3000V caps trough the tube with the diode blocking the flow? Surely Bedini would not make such a simple mistake?  What do you guys reckon?