Hello 2tiger,

weve been making progress with this device, especially from Guys experimenting like Dave, and others. This is not a battery, it is a device which is tuned into a certain frequency and then amplified, to produce power, I don't think modern day calculations will matter here, as it delivers as much power as required, hence thats why it gets warm.

This is pretty much Teslas technology were dealing with here, remember he went against mainline science at the time, as he believed energy was all around us, all we have to do is know how to tap into it. This is what SM's device does.

Ive just been reading about crystal radio sets, there quite easy to make, note they do not require batteries to operate, they get energy from the ether. http://www.arar93.dsl.pipex.com/mds975/Content/aerials1.html

Now look at his second prototype, the rings i believe are loop antenaas:-
The radio is simply placed in the middle of the loop and the signals collected are transferred to the radio via its internal ferrite rod aerial.

The circuit for a loop aerial could not be simpler, being a spiral loop consitsting of 10 turns* of 7/0.2mm 'hook-up' wire wound on the 40cm former, and a tuning capacitor to resonate the loop aerial at different frequencies.

(*about 40 to 50 turns for Long Wave).

If it is required to connect the loop to a radio via its aerial input terminal then a second winding of just 1 turn of wire is wound over the main 10 turn winding.  This secondary winding acts as a coupling coil that is connected to a suitable socket so that a cable can be run from the loop aerial to the radio receiver.

END,

the rings on second version i believe are no more than loop antennas which boost the signals into the 4 collector coils in side the rings, The r8ings do look plastic, so he has the coils hidden inside, and the larger coil on bottom ring is the output.

there is probably differnt ways to make this, and easier would to make a tunning cct which will accept 7.8hz, as SM mentions tuned into earths magnetic field, then magnify/induce this into collector coils which have magnets placed on them.

Once you have this understanding, its easier to start to build it, otherwise you won't know where to start.

From the data ive so far collected and watching videos again especially his first and 2nd proto, and the clear pic Lindsay sent, it all starts to fall into place, And the fact that Dave and others have done really great work with their experiments, just pieces fall into place.

KInd Rgds,

Dom   

Quote from: giantkiller on October 22, 2006, 06:26:42 PM

In looking at the clear picture, 10in spool. SM10? It would be a plastic, Right? Pop metal or aluminum wouldn't be a good air coil. Steel, that is an RFC. We would have to hear him lay it down on something.
1 layer of coils. looks like 4, looking down through the spool you can see across another winding. All physically looks like 16g pair speaker wire, look at the one in front. Remember, he worked in audio. The coil on the right could be magnet wire, but zoom and look at the physical side pattern. It looks like the front windings. The lighting could be wrong. The one across looks the same. I would say there is another by his fingers. White leads look like they go into the windings.
Where the meter leads touch, looks like where the spool crank handle went. And underneath that one can see 2 white leads each connected to some kind of bundle. The parallel / serial connections posted earlier?
And once again, there is a lumpage inside the ring, under his thumb.
@tao, yes! a clear video would be an immense amount on formation just through things moving to change the angular perspective.

Is this a new or old picture? Is the coil(cat) finally out of the bag? Biggest question yet?
And since we see that this working device is minimal with one layer, OOOOOOwEEEEE. He did stack them then to produce more!

@mrd, don't know if you saw this already. I did the best I could to rip it apart from my view.

@cliff, thanks.

--giantkiller

From the latest picture posted by Mannix, showing SM holding the 2 toroidal stack  device, here's my observations:

1) I see the two lower quadrants are wraped with orange/reddish colored wires  (I like to think the rear two quadrants are wrapped as well, to maintain symetry, and I can almost see a reddish color in the darkend area) 

This arrangement resembles a 4 pole motor stator(almost) which certainly can create a conventional rotating magnetic field (like in AC motors etc..)  (has anybody taken an AC motor apart and powered the stator to see if it experiences a gyroscopic effect when moved about in the air?)

2) This device has a visible toroidal ring (1 inch diameter perhaps) placed on top, right where the probe is inserted, but I don't see wires wraped around it like in other configurations.  So it looks like ferrite toroids is a common theme in all the devices(perhaps not the smalles one seen on the glass top table)

3) Then there's a small gray bundle towards the rear top, some white wires go into it.  Also some boxes inserved between the toroids, and lets not forget the legs underneath (to keep the device off the table so it will cool better perhaps?) 

Conclusion:
This device is quite complicated but certainly shoes some interesting clues.  We need more info/diagram from SM/Mannix to really understand it.   When it comes to electric/magnetic systems, pictures certainly don't tell the whole story.  Its not like showing somebody an airplane,  where the main function of flight and lift is apparent from the shape. So without further direction its just speculation and a waste of time.