I don't care so much why information was injected into the open forum,  if we figure out the device, in the end, WE ALL BENEFIT !!!

Having said that,  anybody who holds back info is doing all of us a disfavor (including themselves) and making the process of rediscovering the secrets last a lot longer.

EM

Thanks for your participation and interest in today's interview.

Here our link to download today's interview with Jack Durban.
http://pesn.com/Radio/Free_Energy_Now/recordings/2008/080319_JackDurban_MarksToroid.mp3
 (1:57 hr; 27 Mb)

I archived the list of questions we referenced/asked here:
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Archive:March_19%2C_2008_Questions_for_Jack_Durban

Here's a photo of Jack:
(http://peswiki.com/images/e/e4/Jack_Durban_jp70.jpg)

I also linked to OverUnity.com for some of the reviews of what we learned in today's interview.

And, again, here is the main account:
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Article:Jack_Durban's_experience_with_Steve_Marks_Toroid_Generator

That was an interesting interview but as with everything involved in this technology there is no new information even though new information has been made available. Thanks for trying Steven.

One thing that concerned me was that he said that Steve sent for mercury, it was said like it was something done quite often. Does anyone know why or what mercury has to do with this type of device?

He was talking about SM's associate.  When I heard him say this in the interview, I immediately knew that "Mercury" would be misinterpreted as the element.  For a split-second I thought this might be a clever hint, but no.

Easy on me now and please excuse my ignorance if it happens to show in this post.
[snip]

@Nightlife

It is not easy to excuse ignorance when it takes up so much bandwidth and generates noise.

[snip]
Does that make sense?

@Nightlife

I have yet to see any posts from you that make sense.

@All   @MAC

Concerning the toroid chokes in the center of the large TPU, the probability that they are used as a tuned tank circuit - or a charge/discharge circuit is close to zero, in my opinion.

I have said this before, but not too many people pay attention.  It is industry standard practice to use common-mode line chokes as RF interference reduction.  There are probably hundreds of millions such chokes and filters sold and used each year.  In order to meet legal requirements they are essentially obligatory in every electronic equipment.  The chokes come in all shapes and sizes.  Some are in toroid form.  Since each winding has 110V potential difference, in spite of enameled wire, often an insulating spacer is used between the two windings.  Exactly this insulating spacer along with the two windings can clearly be seen in the large TPU.  The image 231_Drosseln.gif shows not only a choke with spacer for single-phase, but also a plastic star insulator for a 3-phase choke.

The coils themselves are not sufficient for an RFI filter.  Also needed are so-called X and Y capacitors.  There are different classes of X and Y capacitors called X1, X2, Y1, and Y2, depending on voltage and security specifications.

This is everyday, standard, traditional, classical stuff.  Nothing new or exciting about common-mode chokes with X and Y condensers.

For further information consult the attached images and hyperlink.
http://iprinceps.egloos.com/1402906

I repeat, the probability that SM used the common-mode chokes and capacitors to filter RF while letting the DC pass to the output, is close to 100%.

Earl

    I just did a test of cap discharge to cap and came up with really strange results.  Couple that with coils and recapturing the cemf and this has room for more thought. I will have to see where it goes. Anyhow really simple test but I made a small mistake on the test and had the caps backwards. The results were very interesting to say the least. I disbelieved the results so much I had to do it over very carefully again. Same results.
   Two 12v in series for a reading of 25.1v relaxed. One 10,000uf 80vcap and one 6800uf 50v. The test was to take the small one to the large one. I felt that to be the other way. Small oversight on my part. Load up the 10,000 with 25.1 and measure to make sure. Three second connection to the small one and then read the voltage left in both. Here is where it went wrong.

   C1 init    C1 end    C2 end     C1end+C2end/C1init
    25.1       14.74      14.41        1.161%      OOOPS?

   Now I have to find that torrid that had the big caps on top with what may well have been diodes. Couple that with the small torrids I am starting to get a pic in my head of where I want to go with it. Could turn into one really wild osc with the outside winding making enought to keep it flying. Done right that ringing could be kept going a long time ala teslas comment.

OK off my soap box and back in my cage. Master should never have let me out today. Very sick and full of pain killers. 

thaelin

SM did tell us to look at Hendershot, which also needed to be aligned with the earths field in the first model like SMs.  Then later both of their devices eradicated this need.

Hendershots device is just coils, no circuitry.  SM tells us "its just a knowledge of the coils and how they interact, their is no mass circuitry, very simple".

Hendershots device also slowly built up the power?



D.

Way to go Marco!  Are we back on the trail!