On Friday, October 29, 2004, at 08:10 PM, David Dudine wrote:
I think that it may be helpful to take a look at the brief professional
biography of J. Rudy Harford, the inventor of the series mode technology
used in the Zero Surge and Brick Wall units.
A couple things here about patents and things of that sort.
1) it does not have to be a good idea to be a patent
if his thing worked in one specific indication in a lab setting, that would get by the truth in advertising people. All a patent means is that it is a _unique_ idea, as Phil says. Not that it's good for all situations, or the best, or even that good.
2) industry often puts people on patents that are NOT the brightest bulbs in the development bunch.
This is intentional, and an effort to reduce headhunting. Many engineers can tell you that often the person awarded a patent is the one who is LEAST responsible for the original idea- the person who, if recruited by Others, would do the least damage (or most, depending on how you look at it :)
FWIW,
- Phil's comments agree with what I recall of my classes re: this topic: the voltage has to go somewhere, and I think I understand why these would be inductive and cause issues when you turn items on and off. How huge an issue that is for other equipment, I'll have to pass on that. I do cell-based things, undergrad physics is a ways back.
- I am surprised that you would seem to expect objectivity from the people who are selling these things. I'd email an electronics professor or physics guy, or talk to the local electrical contracting firms, first, myself. It's one of those "of course this car runs great" type of situations. Googling for info is hard, it seems they have a good grasp of meta- tags and google searches are swamped as a result.
It's a useful topic, since for the money, everyone wants to know that they are getting something effective. It will be fun to hear what you get back. I have some electrical engineering friends that I can ask, too. If they have comments, I'll share as well.
Brian
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