Re-Inventing The Wheel-Part1-Clemente_Figuera-THE INFINITE ENERGY MACHINE

[JohnMiller]

Electrical steel:
It is rolled sheet metal (never rods) and the grains (polycrystaline structure) are optimized for magnetic conductivity and low residual magnetism. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_steel BTW: It is very difficult to machine.
But please do not think, that cheap Chinese transformers are made out of such material.
Even electrical steel will have some small so called remanence -> residuing megnetism. That is normal. Do not worry. Bedini uses welding rods and even they have remanence.
edfagan have soft magnetic alloys. But I do not think specialized materials are necessary. I have some annealed soft iron wires available.
John

[RandyFL]

Hello All

John
The iron that I bought from Ed Fagan came in a 1/2 inch rod and I had a friend with machinists tools ( Lathe ) square it and its now alittle larger than 3/8th inch thick and was cut to make 7 transformers...In my enthusiasm I sloppily wrapped 100 turns on the primaries and 50 turns on the secondary of 28 gauge magnet wire to see what would happen and got very poor results...after that I realized I never had gaps in the iron...
I'm satisfied with the iron I have but whats your view of the gaps and whats needed to jump the gaps

RandyFL

[a.king21]

NRamaswami: 
You belong to that dying breed of men who are honorable and honest.
It is refreshing to see your sincerity and experimentation on this forum.
I can  also assure you that if you built a 1 kw device there would be many on this forum who would purchase such a device.


I have spoken to Patrick Kelly many times and he would purchase a working device also.


Please don't be downhearted by bad people. They hide behind internet names and think they are anonymous.
They can easily be tracked down, as we all can.
I think you have made a great contribution to the Figuera thread by working with early 20th century type materials.
It is an art long forgotten in the affluent West I am afraid.

[NRamaswami]

I am honored and do not have words to express my gratitude.

Fortunately I started without any knowledge and realized how to make manets and understand them is the first task. When I understood that other xperiments followed. But this was very expensive and labour costs are very high. I have not done many experiments that are needed to be done. But the economy ois down here and I have to focus on practice. I will share what little I observed with replicators through personal messages. For the moment let me take a vacation for a month and then come back if I am able to raise finances to do any experiments.

I am very obliged for the very kind words.

Regards

Ramaswami

[JohnMiller]

...I'm satisfied with the iron I have but whats your view of the gaps and whats needed to jump the gaps...
RandyFL

@RandyFL:
- Nramaswami talked of gaps between coils. Another time he stated that he has no gaps in the steel except when he had a break of length and continued with another rod. He obviously hammered last ones into the pipe in order to get them press fit.

- Be careful with square rods being machined! Round ones have few area where they contact and come with oxidized surface. So few eddy currents can flow between rods. If you pack square rods being machined recently you will have perfect electrical contact and perfect eddy currents. Those differences can possibly make a replication useless. In your case I would like to paint them before assembly. You may buy black paint for exhausts being resistant up to 400°C.

@ALL:
- I verified the dimensions of the core. Patrick has it correct in his book. Other dimensions were discussed in early stage but are not valid now. No gaps in the iron material provided!

- Currently verifying the wingdings. Some hints are missing there. My current calculation gives about 1200m (56 kg) of wire. (4 square mm copper = 2.5 mm diameter = 4 mm diameter including PVC insulation). This wire can be bought in 100m rings or 500m spools. I will come back with data required. Give me some days of study and communication. (about 200 contributions submitted by Nramaswami!)

- Please understand and accept if Nramaswami needs a break. He gave much more of his life and money many of us will ever dare to.
Rgds
John