TPU - General Discussion

[4549raymond]

Maybe that is why SM has a Tv in the room away from the TPU because he could look at the way the pattern was effected at a distance without effecting the operation of his device.

[epwpixieq-1]

The "KICK"

http://tesladownunder.com/Pulse_Power.htm#Can%20crusher%204 ( Look for "Exploding wires  2006" )

Well ... this definitely is ONE huge kick but the underling principle should be the same, disregarding how BIG or small the kick is. Making this ( well not THIS but may be 10^6 smaller ) with a high frequency is the challenge  ... Buy the way the site shows one of the most amazing visuals I have seen ...

Best

[Grumpy]

The "KICK"

The term "kick" can be taken different ways.  There is the familiar "inductive kick" and then there is Lodge's "Recoil Kick":

The approach of Oliver Lodge (1851-1940), in attempting to verify Maxwell?s theory, was to generate waves along an open transmission line. The frequency would be known from the fundamental parameters (inductance and capacity) of the Leyden jar used for the generation of the high frequency oscillations, and the wavelength could be measuredfrom standing waves in the transmission line. In 1887-1888 Lodge worked on producing and identifying standing waves in wires. Lodge developed the famous ?recoil kick? experiment, which showed that a strong spark could be produced at the far end of a transmission line only when the line was resonant. In Lodge?s words [12] in 1888:

?The best effect should be observed when each wire is half a wave-length, or some multiple of half a wave-length, long. The natural period of oscillation in the wires will then agree with the oscillation-period of the discharging circuit, and the two will vibrate in unison, like a string or column of air resounding to a reed.?

Lodge obtained resonance with wires 95 ft long, corresponding to a resonant frequency of about 5 MHz. In a later experiment, he was able to produce much shorter waves, but with enough voltage that the voltage maxima in the standing wave showed up as a visible glow or brush discharge. Lodge looked forward to presenting his results, which gave overwhelming support to Maxwell?s theory, at the September 1888 meeting in Bath of the British Association. However, he was scooped by the earlier publication in 1888 of the results of Heinrich Hertz.

So, according to Lodge, a recoil or "kick" occurs at the point of reflection of the wave.

In an attempt to apply this to the "collectors" or "control coils" of the TPU, you would have to tune the collector length and capacitance to resonate with the excitation impulse (via capacitor discharge) - requires two parallel "collectors" - one to each side of the capacitor so that they are extensions of the capacitor.  You can see that by tuning the control coils/capacitors you can achieve different harmonics in the control coils and that open control coils will produce standing waves.

See this book link and then search for "recoil kick" or go to page 100 of the book - an image is on page 112.
http://books.google.com/books?id=gbwKAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA100&dq=lodge+recoil+kick&as_brr=1&ei=-kUqR_-tLIH87gLQ853uCw&output=html

(Kinda ironic that this book is about "Lightning Conductors") - 

PAge 26 of this book is also interesting:
http://books.google.com/books?id=P6gOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA26&dq=lodge+recoil+kick&as_brr=1&output=html

for those with a slow connection:
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:x4KM9Pn0DlQJ:www.antiquewireless.org/otb/lodge1102.htm+oliver+lodge+%22recoil+kick%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us


As SM said "...knowledge of the coils and how they interact" (not a direct quote)

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[Pirate88179]

I know that we don't know anything for sure.  This has been proven time and time again.  Maybe, one day, we will learn.

Bill