I have worked a very long time on the Newman
things.
The basic effect is:
it is a DC motor basically with the rotor just having
one or more permanent magnets.
The stator are coils switched via a mechanical commutator.
from a battery power supply.
Many batteries in series to get a high input voltage
and using small diameter wire to use only milliamps
of input current, so the batteries also last longer.
The main effect is then the mechanical switching of the
coils via the mechanical commutator.
It only works via mechanical switching.
There is the back EMF energy abruptly jumping via the commutator
and together with the 2 different material for the commutator this
is converted into RF bursts, that recharge the batteries.
As there is also an interaction of the coils and the magnets
the spark at the commutator is getting bigger and thus
there is more energy being produced and the batteries
are charged back via an superimposed DC pulse inside
the RF burst and sparking.
It is pretty complicated.
But Newman just did, what you normaly don?t do.
He worked out how to make the spark bigger
at the commutator by using multiple commutator in series
and thus have a faster dI/dt current switch off and thus have more induction
voltage and a bigger spark.
The fact is, that he can produce a lot of RF power with this
concept and the batteries seem to stay charged due to the
RF bursts they permanently get from the switching of the mechanical
commutator !
With electronic switching it DOES NOT WORK.
So don?t try it with transistor switching, it just does
not work. Have been all through the years with it.
There must be sparks jumping to have the effects.
And you have to have the right commutator materials,
like copper and graphite.
have a look at my work at:
www.overunity.com/newmanand
www.overunity.com/newman2The problem still is, that also with big machines,
you have pretty low mechanical output as you can
see, that his car is running only at slow speed.
In this motor he probably produces more RF power
than mechanical power, so he mainly keeps
the batteries charged and does not have such
a big mechanical output.
Also he has
many losses in this car motor to bring the
power to the wheels as it is build.
Also he has pretty big airgaps between coils
and magnets, so the motor
is not so much efficient mechanically,
but the batteries just stay charged due to
all the RF he generates and the superimposed
DC back current spikes.
Also you need lots of copper wire for it
which is expensive.
If you have specific questions, just ask.
Regards, Stefan.