Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-25 Thread James Bowery
-- *From:* James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 22 novembre 2012 22:21 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels ** ** It's hard to know where to begin here but let me just say this that given the speed of sound

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-25 Thread James Bowery
* *** ** ** d= v * t = v / f ( with v=1/f) ** ** 5630/430E3 = 13.093E-3 m = 13.093 mm ** ** Arnaud -- *From:* James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 22 novembre 2012 22:21 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:25 experiments

RE: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
Jack, Yes, you use a PWM signal and convert it in to an AC signal. For example when PWM is 1, then it's + current, or if PWM is 0, then it's - current. But if I understand, you need also a Zero current state as well. In this case, the Power part of the schematic does not change. You keep

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Jack Cole
Arnaud, Looks like 240V max and 4A max was used by Godes in phase 1. The RMS current is 12 mA. More recently, looks like his circuit has capacity up to 35A (doesn't specify the voltage) and a minimum pulse width of 250 ns. I'd be happy just replicating the phase I for now. Looks like those

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread James Bowery
/430E3 = 13.093E-3 m = 13.093 mm ** ** Arnaud -- *From:* James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 22 novembre 2012 22:21 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels ** ** It's hard

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
-- *From:* James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 22 novembre 2012 22:21 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels ** ** It's hard to know where to begin here but let me just say this that given the speed of sound

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
I can't resist jumping back in at this point. These full bridge devices are mostly used as motor controllers. In such applications you just need to turn it on and have it supply an appropriate AC signal while the motor is running and then turn it off. There's never any need for fine control or

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Jack Cole
Thanks for explaining this Jeff. Did you see that he is using 2 cathodes? What is the difference between the two? Initially I was thinking about just trying to replicate his circuit, but the F626-12 seems to be pretty hard to track down. On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Jeff Berkowitz

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
If you are referring to his Figure 3A - I don't *think* he's using two cathodes. I think the image of two dots with two lines between them is intended to convey that the cathode has physical extent - he describes it somewhere as a grid of nickel wires (?) - and the Q pulses swing positive and

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Jack Cole
Jeff, Look at figure 9 on this page: http://www.rexresearch.com/godes/godes.htm Two cathodes are shown. It almost looks like the 2 cathodes are connected together at the bottom. Is he running the Q in a loop through this, and the loading pulse through the anode do you think? Here is some

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Jack Cole
I've made a very interesting simulation circuit in LTSpice. I started with another template made by someone else outputting a simple DC pulse (using a 555 IC). In the simulation, I get high frequency AC (one sweep from positive to negative and back to zero then dead space). Here is a single

RE: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Jones Beene
Anyone looking for an efficient low power electrical circuit for a number of alternative energy uses - possibly electrolysis, but that is less certain - should check out the latest joule ringer low power self-oscillating circuits. In these circuits, potential and natural oscillation are in a

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-23 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Yes, that figure is directly from the patent. I think we're on the same page. Figure 9 shows two cells: the real cell on the left and the control (joule heat) cell on the right. Four wires are shown leaving the real cell. The leftmost is a temperature sensor that runs to a data logger. The middle

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jack Cole
Axil, Yes, that is the plan. I'm still trying to understand exactly what Godes does. It turns out to not be real easy to get a bipolar (AC) pulse at ~200V along with the loading DC. High frequency/high voltage AC is the key at a specific pulse width to get the conductor skin effect (

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Axil Axil
http://www.google.com/url?sa=trct=jq=esrc=sfrm=1source=webcd=1cad=rjasqi=2ved=0CDAQFjAAurl=http%3A%2F%2Flenr-canr.org%2Facrobat%2FGodesRcontrolled.pdfei=iV6uUL25CaeF0QHQqIG4DAusg=AFQjCNHuzrqKGBNAwRi7rIW-VMSkqLKLHAsig2=7Pt74QjBK5CUU6fNvN-1OQ *Controlled Electron Capture and the Path Toward

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Axil, absolutely right, yet I agree with Jack about the implementation. When I did that LTSpice analysis of the simplified circuit, I was very clear about how big a simplification it was for me to leave out the isolation transformer and the loading current. The entire circuit as described in the

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread James Bowery
While your humble opinions quite possibly directly follow from: This is called reverse field current in plasma physics. It produces a counter rotating plasmoid in the shape of a ring. The plasmoid moves forward in a dielectric like a rolling smoke ring. This premise is also an opinion and is not

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread James Bowery
As I previously advisedhttp://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg73144.html : Look at the acoustics of the electrodes. Since this advice seemed to make no impact on the discourse here at vortex-l, let me expand: Acoustic resonance in the metallic electrodes does have a reasonable

RE: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jones Beene
On the contrary James, at least two of us did look closely at this possibility [electrode acoustics]. My associate went to trouble to find and download a mpeg sound file of a bicycle bell of the same general size as Davey's, and plugged it into a program for this kind of analysis - in fact it

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread James Bowery
It's hard to know where to begin here but let me just say this that given the speed of sound in nickelhttp://www.olympus-ims.com/en/ndt-tutorials/thickness-gage/appendices-velocities/ : 5630m/s and 430kHz: 5630m/s;430kHz?mm ([5630 * meter] / second) * (430 * [kilo*hertz])^-1 ? milli*meter =

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
Interesting. A U.S. nickel is 1.95mm thick. On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:21 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: It's hard to know where to begin here but let me just say this that given the speed of sound in

RE: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
: Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels It's hard to know where to begin here but let me just say this that given the http://www.olympus-ims.com/en/ndt-tutorials/thickness-gage/appendices-veloc ities/ speed of sound in nickel: 5630m/s and 430kHz: 5630m/s;430kHz?mm ([5630

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
However a U.S. nickel is 75/25 copper/nickel. It might be possible to figure out the speed of sound using information in this thread: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=277330 I'll look at it later. Jeff On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Jeff Berkowitz pdx...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
d = distance v = speed (vitesse in french) t = time and f = frequency _ From: Arnaud Kodeck [mailto:arnaud.kod...@lakoco.be] Sent: jeudi 22 novembre 2012 22:51 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels James, I've a problem

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jack Cole
Jeff, I don't think your scope would need that level of resolution. Godes describes using the following: A 100MHz Fluke 196C oscilloscope meter. Anyway, there is not a lot of info on the net about using PWM to make bipolar pulses. Producing a DC pulse to those specs is not so difficult. A

RE: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Arnaud Kodeck
electrode to the ground. Arnaud _ From: Jack Cole [mailto:jcol...@gmail.com] Sent: jeudi 22 novembre 2012 22:59 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels Jeff, I don't think your scope would need that level of resolution. Godes

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
You don't need a high speed scope if the circuit is working *correctly*. But if it's working correctly, you don't need to measure it at all. ;-) The reason for a high speed scope is to observe the behavior when it's not working correctly. It's a high-power, high-speed AC circuit, so errors or bad

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
-- *From:* James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 22 novembre 2012 22:21 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels ** ** It's hard to know where to begin here but let me just say

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread David Roberson
not be accurate enough to work well with production variations. Dave -Original Message- From: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, Nov 22, 2012 3:18 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels As I previously advised: Look

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jack Cole
I see your point Jeff. I did use the oscilloscope to figure out the minimum pulse width attainable by the IOIO board I am using with my Android phone. It will go down to 65 ns. Arnaud (or anyone who can answer), So if I understand correctly, you could use a PWM pulse with an H bridge to get AC

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jack Cole
The closest I can get to figuring out how to do this would be the following: 3 power pulse modulators and a center tap transformer (see here: http://www.rmcybernetics.com/tutorials/pwm-bipolar.htm). The two PPMs and transformer that they describe gives you the HFAC. The third would give you the

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread fznidarsic
Have you tried boric acid, not Borax. The acid powder can can be found in the bug killer dept. of most hardware stores. I use it to treat lumber and keep out ants and termites. Frank Znidarsic

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jack Cole
Hi Frank, No I haven't tried that. It would be worth a try. I'll see if I can get some. Jack On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 7:33 PM, fznidar...@aol.com wrote: Have you tried boric acid, not Borax. The acid powder can can be found in the bug killer dept. of most hardware stores. I use it to

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread James Bowery
** ** Arnaud -- *From:* James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] *Sent:* jeudi 22 novembre 2012 22:21 *To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels ** ** It's hard to know where to begin here

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-22 Thread Jeff Berkowitz
It turns out that determining the speed of sound in metals is kind of a mess. There is formula, sqrt (Young's Modulus / density), that gives an approximation of the answer. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/souspe2.html For nickel, I find 200GPa and 8.94e3 kg*m^-3; the formula

[Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-21 Thread Jack Cole
Hi folks, I have completed a long series of experiments utilizing borax, standard nickels (combined with thoriated tungsten rods), and an automated Android phone control system. Although I developed some cool methods of running experiments, I have to conclude that I found no anomalous heating.

Re: [Vo]:25 experiments completed with borax and nickels

2012-11-21 Thread Axil Axil
Jack, I suggest that you rerun your experiment with nanosecond duration pulsed direct current using capacitive discharge. You have not tested the hypothesis that high instantaneous pulse power output will trigger over unity power production as has been demonstrated by Brillouin Energy.