Steven Mark`s TPU

[Rosphere]

...Perhaps the four vertical coil design detail 'evolved' over time.  It may have started with the open TPU as the four pillars positioned between the two disks, then...

...I turned it off because I have to sleep and wife and baby dont like the tic-tac-tic-tac-toc, tic-tac-tic-tac-toc of the realys...

This is a stretch: what if the four pillars positioned between the two disks of the open TPU design are small relays? 
'Just running it up the flagpole here, boss.' 

[wattsup]

@Rosphere

On the OTPU, there are two horizontal coils at 180 degrees between rings, one vertical coil and one metal box that looks like an EMI filter. There is also only three legs, the other leg is the circuit board. I think the rings are used in the same manner as the LTPU by simlpy pulsing the two H coils to magnetize space between the rings North and South. When the pulse drops, the rings release static into the four collectors. Simple as he said, there is not much to this device. We also know he pushed a button to start it and one of the legs has a cover on it most likely to enclosed a few small batteries for start-up.

Here is a photo of a device I made just to test the magnet on the top and sending audio into the coil actually made my whole bench vibrate. For the collector lamp wire is useless. It is probably plastic coated Litz wire. More individual strands to catch energy. Will test this in 2008 with my Litz wire.

[eldarion]

Hi Wattsup,

That is a very interesting test you have there.  I am a bit unsure as to how you wired it, however.

Is this correct?
-Aluminum plates go to high voltage DC source to establish a potential between them, which the relay coil's magnetic field interacts with
-Relay coil goes to pulse generator of some sort
-Lamp wire (I would replace with Litz wire as you said ) is the power output (collector)

Thanks!

Eldarion

[otto]

Hello all,

merry Christmas.

Otto

[M@rcel]

My very first post here, so please be gentle 

Reading and studying a number of solid state devices these past months, I tried to comprehend what was going on. To simplify things a little, I decided to only loosely watch setups with permanent magnets (MEG, HOPE and alike) and focus on non-permanent-magnet-types. The tpu as my main candidate.

What I am wondering is whether someone has already asked him/herself why SM noted his coils being in series or parallel? What happens if we combine the use of litze (many isolated strands) with http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/parabifc.htm (figure 2)? Changing the coil's induction by switching the litze strands from massive parallel to massive serial might yield interesting results.

Maybe it's time for me to start building, too! 

EDIT:
Paraformer hmmmm