Also see: *http://www.rfcafe.com/references/radio-news/subminiature-magnetic-amplifiers-dec-1957-radio-tv-news.htm <http://www.rfcafe.com/references/radio-news/subminiature-magnetic-amplifiers-dec-1957-radio-tv-news.htm>*
Bob On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the input, Jones. > > The pin stays in the same place when it is rotated 180 degree and put back >> in the tube - and/or – get this: the pin stays in the same place when the >> entire system is turned 180 degree (the pin does not drop away due to >> gravity in either of the two upside down alignments) >> >> >> >> The are four possibilities for levitating alignment and the pin stays in >> the same spot for all 4 of them. Brian Ahern actually has 4 images of the >> four possibilities - to prove this. >> >> >> >> The pin has no lateral/vertical stability – thus lateral support is >> needed to keep it stable. It flies over to any one of the four corners >> otherwise. >> > > If the pin is just a lightweight soft reluctor, then it would tend to stay > aligned to magnetic field lines and a symmetric divergence of the field > could hold it in place. OK, I can buy that. I don't buy that there is a > continuous oscillation of the magnetic field. What evidence is there of > any oscillation? Obviously if there were oscillations, it would be > possible to extract energy. > >> >> >> This billet has been conditioned in a manner which was based on the work >> of Floyd Sweet. >> > > There is an old technology called "magnetic amplifiers" which could be > related to this effect. See the wikipedia page: > *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_amplifier > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_amplifier>* . I would look > closely at this old technology to hypothesize how the Sweet device works. > > The conditioning involves huger burst of power though solenoid coils place >> in different areas around the edges of the magnet. There is information >> online about this. >> > > This is the classic description of how an uncharged magnet gets charged - > with a burst of current through a solenoid. It appears that this ferrite > magnet material gets charged in multiple domains at the same time to > produce a prescribed field pattern. > >> >> >> Yes I have such a billet and have seen the effect, but my billet is >> thinner (1/4”) and the levitation distance is less, and I must use a light >> sewing pin. A nail is too heavy. Sadly, I have not been able to reproduce >> the energy gain but believe it is there and that this magnet and the >> circuit is the key to it. >> >> >> >> This “levitating pin effect” can, and has been, simulated with two >> magnets – one toroid and one ring speaker magnet, axially magnetized. That >> should tell you something. Place a clear tube with a pin inside a toroid >> which will hold the tube, and place that assembly inside, near the top, of >> a woofer speaker magnet, and the effect can be seen. The pin is “locked” in >> space, and levitated no matter what alignment it is in. >> > > It would seem important to create a field axis normal to the slab, but > also create a second domain near the surface to cancel the field there, so > that above the slab is a field divergence to hold the pin in place. This > levitation demonstration seems to be just spectacle and I cannot see how it > would be related to energy production. > > Bob Higgins >
