Hubbard coil

[ramset]

Z  I can feel you jumping up and down from here!!  you really have the INFINITY coil figured out?? Chet

[giantkiller]

Lets put some icing on the cake here...

Look at the picture.
As one can see the square wave is obvious. But with the resonant rise we have a ringing effect. Ringing? That is the reflected / deflected pressure from an impasse. A what? Who or what sent that back? Talk to me! I am feeling kind of omnipotent here....  The ringing frequency comes from where? I didn't do that.

And the envelope even looks like a bell. Imagine that!

--giantkiller.

[z.monkey]

Howdy Giantkiller,

That looks like inductive self-resonance to me.  Instead of a LC circuit, you built a LLLL circuit. L⁴ circuit?  As each coil reaches saturation it self-discharges into the next one down the line.  The charge is racing around the inductor cluster apparantly at a fairly high frequency.  Can you post a schematic of what you are testing?

Ramset, I am just giddy, giggling like a little schoolgirl...

Blessed Be Brothers...

[z.monkey]

Howdy GiantKiller,

Another observation, when the square wave goes low the ringing starts and looks like it is increasing in amplitude.  Then the square wave goes high and the ringing stops with the direct current.  Try giving it only one pulse, high then low, and let the ringing continue.  See if the amplitude goes higher.  You may have the brass ring there, no pun intended.

Theoretically you are generating a vortex in the ether.  The longer the ringing continues the larger the vortex will become drawing more and more magnetic flux through the cluster of coils.  The limiting factor is the physical size of the inductor cluster and the size of each inductor.  So there should be an upper limit to the amplitude.  What that is I don't know.  Also see if you can measure the frequency of the ringing.  There should be some relationship between the size and number of the coils and the frequency.

I think you have done it, you found the free energy demon, at least in one way.  We should be able to access this energy in many ways.

Excellent work...

Blessed Be Brothers...

[Grumpy]

Cupric Oxide?

Kinda like the conductor in lamp cord used to be? The way almost all copper wire was made up until the 50/60s. The way copper surely was on the original Cook coils? That is annealed and not drawn again so they maintained flexibility. Current wire is annealed with the new process that does not include oxygen so the copper will not turn black. The old conductors would turn black easily.

If you want to try annealed copper heat it to a dull cherry red and let cool on its own. Don't quench it. If you heat it right and long enough the black stuff will appear.
It flakes off easily. No matter, the good stuff is under it. It is known in the PC board biz as 'Red Plague'. Also known as the first photocell. It is sensitive to more than light.

Any SM words about TPUs working better with rust or oxides formed or working better over time or better after it got hot the first time?

I'll see if these words mean anything. I had just finished annealing copper band for my next experiment when that great reading patent link was posted.

SM did mention that he tried "corroded wire" and that it worked very well:

By the way, something strange is that, once I made a unit with some old corroded wire for the collector and it worked very well for it's size. I made another identical collector with shiny new wire and it did not work quite as well. I never found out why, but there was a difference. I did not spend too much time on the curiosity because I had unlimited funding and a whole room full of every kind of wire there was.

Perhaps this is why:

Copper(I) oxide shows four well understood series of excitons with resonance widths in the range of neV. The associated polaritons are also well understood; their group velocity turns out to be very low, almost down to the speed of sound. That means light moves almost as slow as sound in this medium. This results in high polariton densities, and effects like Bose-Einstein condensation, the dynamical Stark effect and phonoritons have been demonstrated.

used in anti-fouling paints...

EDIT:

http://www.unitednuclear.com/chem.htm

$12 for 8 oz

As I recall, the copper from Chili was best for copper diodes.