Ward's Build of Bob Boyce's TPU

[eldarion]

Hi Ward,

Very interesting thoughts there!

Regarding Vista, I once had the pain of trying to use it in a store.  I now run Linux, customized to look like XP:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/KDE-XP

Works great!

Eldarion

[HumblePie]

Hi Ward,

Very interesting thoughts there!

Regarding Vista, I once had the pain of trying to use it in a store.  I now run Linux, customized to look like XP:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/KDE-XP

Works great!

Eldarion

@Eldarion,

Thank you for your recommendation.  I have a Lindows expert friend who has tried to get me off big fat MS OS's for many years.  My excuse was the learning curve.  Now I must decide this again.  Do I side step learning Vista skills I may need when I use such a system?  I want to very badly.  I really am struggling with Vista.  I must get RMF happenning ASAP, so I will delay the change I desire to Lindows.  BTW - It is said that the Vista built -in Yahoo toolbar Big Brothers archives all I/O from the OS, just like CNN has reported about Google Tool-Bar.  This is good enough reason to reject this OS.  I doubt I can remove anything besides the facade, but I am assuming this.  GrrrR!

Thank you again Eldarion for leading the way in your thread.  It really helps me to see what others are doing.  I've asked where more Bob Boyce style TPU builds are posted because you, Earl, and Wer are the only others I see posting builds of it.

Ward

[Earl]

@All

My recent new notebook left the factory with Vista on it, but the dealer upgraded Vista to XP, which is what I'm using now.  When I received it. I found a ~4 GB Windows partition for C: and the rest of the HDD was ~75GB empty second partition.  There was no recovery disk, so I hunted around and found a Linux program called PING (Part Image Is Not Ghost).  PING is a great program, I highly recommend it.  Backup and restore, and you can even burn a boot CD disk that could save your @ss one day.

I also highly recommend shrinking Windows C: partition down to as small as possible.  I see no reason to have C: larger than 4 or 5 GB.  Never install any programs to C:, they don't belong there.  Keep C: lean and mean and use PING to take regular snapshots for permanent storage on HDD or DVDs.

I have been keeping data backups on an external 2.5 in USB drive and just upgraded from a 80GB PATA box to a 250GB SATA 2.5" box.  I am on my third SATA box and will soon be able to give some recommendations, especially which ones NOT to buy.  I require that the box need only one USB port for power from notebook, many need two USB ports because of high spin-up power peak.  The one I bought today appears to be happy with the power from just one port.  Stay tuned for my external backup box advise.

We are left with 3 possibilities whether we like it or not; stay with XP, upgrade from Vista to XP (demand the disk from the dealer), or migrate to Linux.  I have learned a bit of Linux in order to play with my Linux router box (LinkSys running OpenWRT or DD-WRT).  The programs OpenSSH and OpenVPN are very interesting and useful to have.

Earl

[HumblePie]

@Earl,

Way cool info.  It brings me back from distraction though.  Do you have any thoughts for me on Reply 31 30 or 34 here?

http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,3506.msg61974.html#msg61974

You are Mr parallel tran's line drive guy and your posts and Dr's Spice Sim's inspired these questions.  Hands on will test hypothesis.  I now solicit design of experiment ideas.   Here are mine:

* (EDIT - This is Jason's idea / config I will test)  Do one wire experiment with lamp cord shorted one end together only, other end across resistor with one lead (so scope can see signal), other lead to Gnd.  Drive solenoid, open and closed ended drive.  Repeat test backwards... driving lamp cord one lead other unused, then repeat other end shorted like folded bifilar.

**With one wire winding above, drive solenoid winding again.  Bend it into circle while observing the response.  See if a gap, or diameter adjust of circle acts in any way like a larger circle / longer circumference.

***Maybe try winding a solenoid made from the one wire winding assy above too... then try driving the solenoid Vs the 'receptor' again.. receptor as in text at http://altenergy-pro.com describes... maybe.  I'm rambling, but I now have a great list of experiments I must perform, else let myself down in non-public ha ha.  Hey Spencer, start posting your build because it forces some sort of schedule on you that will somehow fit into busy schedule.  It is like paying yourself first 10% of your gross earnings into 'never touch nest egg'.  Do this before you pay bills!  All else will fit the 'modulated equilibrium' your budgeting has created.  I better go put some hours in before boss calls me for progress report.  I suppose dead PC is good excuse, but I grow poorer every hour!

Ward

PS - Giant once wrote 'Keep the noise down'.  I will stop this texting bla bla and post experiments and build progress.  Otto told me early, "I don't want to hear any theories"...  "Just build".  Then Bruce told me, "Now is the time to build, you have all you need" (any way more than what we really need) .. as in comradare follows succeeders, ha ha.  I will succeed.

[HumblePie]

'So then I replay thoughts about
MAGNETOSTRICTION... the audible buzzing when inductor pulsates and stretches conductors and affects magnetic impedance and vica-verce (if there is such a thing).    audible/acoustic implies low frequency... what?   Well if that slightly "Off-tune", it would tend to rotate the peak aroud the toroid because its end would land at a slightly shorter landing zone than each previous cycle did if it was anywhere less than 1/2 a circumference shorter than a perfect integer # of circumferences in wavelength.  When it is a little shorter still, say 3/4 of one circumference, it is just like being 1/4 > than a perfect integer # of circumferences long, and the pulse peak rotates the other way.  NOT, same way, opps. BUT it is the OPPOSITE direction that the pulse is being driven!  This landing zone of the 'start' of pulse (or end of pulse if it makes you think easier) seems to be what is being called:

@All,
I do not know what I do not know... level 1 of competence forget all that I said,

but...  It seems the only way to get the wave length fed into the circle to land at shorter and shorter place each time around is when wavelength is < circumference, so EM seems to be correct when he says "Ideally the wave length should fit the circumference", that way the (I will call it) 'acoustic wave' can be made to rotate each way with a slightly shorter or longer wavelength.  If frequency is lower and wave length longer, it can only go opposite to direction of the pulse/wavelength travel. 

If true, this implies that the longitudinal waves are somehow anchored to the Prim 'antenna' that induced them and not free to circle as if they were launched into the new, toroidal antenna it seems.  Comes back to what is "Phase velocity" really and how is it detected.  Dr. said he detected 'nodes' in Owen's old ring, but the details may differ too much for compare.


The attached Longitudinal experiments document from Jason shows that L-waves are standing waves in an antenna and travel very very very slowly in Cu, but faster in air.  These standing waves can be modulated, and can only birth Siamese twin E and M standing waves (at 90 deg' to each other) when the L-waves cut magnetic lines of force...  I must move on, but think this matters.  The doc contains experimental results using 9V batteries and tiny 5mm antenna and is easy reading.


I add this link I found in Bruce's thread that mentions more about why OPPOSITE behavior than expected:
 
http://amasci.com/tesla/tesceive.html  

And impedance basics that must be comprehended for receiving power well it seems.  Thank Bruce, I would link to your post, but can't find now.

I await a new OWON 2CH O'Scope for $427 delivered with 4 1X/10X probes that should arrive Saturday I hope... and IL710-2E digital isolators for my DDS 20(s) good for 100MHz 2500V iso', 5V source.  My other obsolete O'Scope is totally dead so I am blind for a few more days...
So I'll work on making all this work with 9V batteries so I won't need a Supply plugged in or have to touch those metal knobs on it that may charge up.  I'll get several re chargables so I can charge some with bridge rectifier output from the 9V DC2DC PS. 

I refrain from trying to feed this back to the HVPS 9V without a step-down transformer and a regulator after that.  I bet I get opposite of what I expected before last week's HVPS that used less power when it drove that inductor Vs nothing at all.)  Especially after reading Bruce's link again.

Ward