Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2010-01-02 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 01/01/2010 12:59 PM, William Beaty wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: An ideal toroidal coil has no external field -- symmetry and simple arguments regarding the curl of the B field show that it's got to be null outside the torus. In particular, any loop around the

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2010-01-01 Thread William Beaty
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Harry Veeder wrote: billb wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Craig Haynie wrote: By moving a magnetic field across a conductor, don't we get induction, and hence, electricity? Not in a toroid inductor with unsaturated core. The ring-shape core will shield the inductor against

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2010-01-01 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 01/01/2010 03:30 AM, William Beaty wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Harry Veeder wrote: billb wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Craig Haynie wrote: By moving a magnetic field across a conductor, don't we get induction, and hence, electricity? Not in a toroid inductor with unsaturated core.

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2010-01-01 Thread Terry Blanton
to be in the shape of a continuous metalic belt around the rotor. harry - Original Message From: Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 8:44:07 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication If you check carefully, Steorn uses two

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2010-01-01 Thread Terry Blanton
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: My explanation is not very clear -- I hope it makes at least a little sense to folks... Much so, thanks! For those small magnets this is probably a fairly accurate representation. Terry

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2010-01-01 Thread William Beaty
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: So the problem I had is failure to properly picture a non-uniform magnetic field. Or, from practical experience with inductors, I could imagine noticing the effects of saturation, but ascribing the cause to nonuniform fields! :) First, let me

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-31 Thread William Beaty
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Craig Haynie wrote: When the power to the controller is switched off, no induction is measured in the stator coils. Why? Isn't this how a generator works? Ferromagnetic materials are nonlinear. If their operation is kept well below the saturation region, then yes, a

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-31 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message From: Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, December 30, 2009 1:13:39 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication Setting aside the issue of over unity or free energy, what does the 'zero' meter reading mean ? a violation

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-31 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message From: William Beaty bi...@eskimo.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 4:36:48 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Craig Haynie wrote: By moving a magnetic field across a conductor, don't we get induction

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-31 Thread Terry Blanton
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Craig Haynie wrote: By moving a magnetic field across a conductor, don't we get induction, and hence, electricity? Not in a toroid inductor with unsaturated core.  The ring-shape core will shield the inductor against fields coming

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-31 Thread Harry Veeder
...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 8:44:07 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication If you check carefully, Steorn uses two magnets to help make the field homogeneous. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: - Original Message From

[Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Craig Haynie
I find this video to be interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_gkxfX98as When the power to the controller is switched off, no induction is measured in the stator coils. Why? Isn't this how a generator works? By moving a magnetic field across a conductor, don't we get induction, and hence,

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Craig Haynie
Here are two more replications: http://www.youtube.com/user/m1a9r9s9#p/u/2/nDABKqdB538 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGPRoHgz8Rw The first link shows no apparent current increase as the speed of the rotor picks up, and tends to really display the effect that is perplexing all of these people.

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Harry Veeder
From: Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, December 30, 2009 11:45:30 AM Subject: [Vo]:Steorn Replication I find this video to be interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_gkxfX98as When the power to the controller is switched off, no induction

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Terry Blanton
What happens when two solenoids wound oppositely pass through a common magnetic field if you tie the conductors together? Terry On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: I find this video to be interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_gkxfX98as When

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Craig Haynie
Setting aside the issue of over unity or free energy, what does the 'zero' meter reading mean ? a violation lenz law? a faulty meter? or meter leads located at the wrong place? Are you implying that the amp meter is not connected correctly? If so, why would the current increase at low RPM.

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Craig Haynie
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: What happens when two solenoids wound oppositely pass through a common magnetic field if you tie the conductors together? I suspect you would get a zero reading, but how is that relevant to this demonstration?

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Terry Blanton
If you pass a plane through the toroidal inductor, you will see that, in cross section, piecewise it's the same effect. Terry On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: What happens

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Craig Haynie
If you pass a plane through the toroidal inductor, you will see that, in cross section, piecewise it's the same effect. I see... thanks. But doesn't that prove his point, though, that if there is no reverse induction, then the circuits are independent? But, even if they are independent, this

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:14 PM 12/30/2009, Craig Haynie wrote: Here are two more replications: The first link shows no apparent current increase as the speed of the rotor picks up, and tends to really display the effect that is perplexing all of these people.

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:15 PM 12/30/2009, Harry Veeder wrote: Here is the same unit turned by hand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xungPOZtIo Setting aside the issue of over unity or free energy, what does the 'zero' meter reading mean ? a violation lenz law? a faulty meter? or meter leads located at the wrong

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:13 PM 12/30/2009, Craig Haynie wrote: Setting aside the issue of over unity or free energy, what does the 'zero' meter reading mean ? a violation lenz law? a faulty meter? or meter leads located at the wrong place? Are you implying that the amp meter is not connected correctly? If so,

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Craig, I don't think you get that the demonstrations show almost nothing, except that the second video you pointed to conclusively refutes the claim of no back-EMF, and quite visually, with the blinking of that neon bulb, which, as I recall, requires about 65 volts to initiate, the bulb then

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/30/2009 03:31 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 12:14 PM 12/30/2009, Craig Haynie wrote: Here are two more replications: The first link shows no apparent current increase as the speed of the rotor picks up, and tends to really display the effect that is perplexing all of these

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 04:37 PM 12/30/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 12/30/2009 03:31 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 12:14 PM 12/30/2009, Craig Haynie wrote: Here are two more replications: The first link shows no apparent current increase as the speed of the rotor picks up, and tends to really

RE: [Vo]:Steorn Replication

2009-12-30 Thread George Holz
Stephen A. Lawrence [mailto:sa...@pobox.com] wrote: The only interaction between a live electrical circuit and a physical object on which it can do work is in step (3). In that step, the coil is energized in such a way that it would REPEL the magnet, which is moving away from it. Think about it