Lords of the Ring

[Grumpy]

My take on the cannonball analogy does not have BEMF - the field never relaxes.

You start the controls and the RMF start to form, and you keep speeding up the signal (increasing frequency).  this is much the same as an endless train if unidirectional impulse - like Tesla used - except we are working with a circle, so it goes round and round - faster and faster - stronger and stronger.

I suppose, theoreticall, that by adding frequencies over and over (or mixing and going higher and higher - always at a harmonic of resonance so as to maintain resonance) you could reach extremely high frequencies.  (Eventually, something will have to give.)

The center of the ring - like the eye of a tornado is quiet.  The outside, for a fair distance is very noisy.  Hence control are placed in the quiet center.  The toroidal overwrap may offer some degree of shielding and field containment permitting the ring to be used around convetnional devices without too much interference.

[bolt]

There is no fancy stuff on SM's PCB. He mentioned somewhere it was discrete components and helped if they were mounted 1/2'' of the board. Thats sounds to me like RF breadboarding. I wouldn't be surprised if some it was blobbed on to plain copper PCB for the oscillators and the PLL was a bit of Vero board taped up and squashed on top:) When you build your oscillators and they run stable all thats left is working out what control wires do what. At this point in time we should have least had at least one coil melt down to show good willing!

[Grumpy]

Could it be that the toroids in the center of the 15" TPU compose a toroidal balun mixer?  Let's see, two toroids, two caps, diodes hiding somewhere...something on those caps

How quaint.

summary:

RMF.  Increase speed by looping mixer output back to input.  Collector better provide enough to get it going...

If frequencies get too far off, they don't mix right and you lose resonance...round and round down the toilet...

Almost two freakin' years to see it is just a magnetic vortex, a freakin mixer, wire and tape...jeeeez!

EDIT:

[giantkiller]

Gentlemen,
I would to thank you all for posting this here. I have an adequate set of parts coming in the mail to create a very controlled test platform.
The real fun should start now. And the weekend is upon us.

--giantkiller. Permantly in awe.

[Grumpy]

I'm still dumbfounded by the freakin' mixer, eddy currents, and RMF.

Even if SM does not keep injecting the output of the mixer back to the input infinetly, it still looks like a mixer and would allow multiplication of the frequency.  Judging by the size of those caps - not extremely high freq.