This will be my last post on the forum but before I say goodbye I would like to wish you all good luck and i'm going to leave you with something I think is very special.
Last night for the first time I twisted a 1k pot on a circuit and saw amps go down and voltage go up. All the ideas i've had in the past about where the self resonance comes from and the energy, it is quite ironic that it reveals itself when you are least expecting it and TBH i've never tried to build self resonant coils in the past but the truth is - you don't have to build them, they create themselves. At this point you'll be wondering what the hell i'm talking about but bare with me.
The other day I built a very strange toroid core out of steel wire and on this core a placed a simple primary, the coil seemed to be self resonant and use no current at 3.18khz, didn't even get warm in the slightest when it should have done in a very lossy core.
Didn't have a clue what was going on really until late last night. There are three photo's below, I want you to look at my schematic of the double toroid I built in red and black.
Two days ago I mentioned to a friend of mine that when this transformer network was in operation I could hear some sort of argument taking place between the primary and the secondary and the secondary sounded like it was spluttering or delayed. I pondered over it but couldn't figure it out, anyway last night I decided to gate the toroid transformer.
Here is what happened: During the gating period the secondary self resonates at a frequency of its own that is different from the supplied frequency. When you widen the gate time the voltage from the secondary goes up. This is because you are providing a longer period of time for the secondary to self resonate. But here is a question, how is it self resonating?
Well, its all about providing an inductor with a path to self resonate and in this case it is the smaller fatter toroid. The inductor is self resonating around the smaller toroid at its own natural self resonant frequency when the power is turned off.
It does this because the fatter shorter toroid is more suited to allow it to do so.
Now, with that in mind I want you to look at Stan's figure 8XA below. Stan only uses 60hz and chops the frequency with a bridge rectifier to 120hz. He then gates the frequency into the bifilar coil and at this point there are gated pulses of 120hz going into the coil. Notice the coil arrangement there are two pairs of semi circles that surround the core. There has been many an argument as to what these are and some suggest they are magnetic field indicators but I'm telling you that they are a pair of toroids.
Here is what happens in Stan's 8XA: Stan uses 110vac then steps the voltage up with a transformer, he then fully rectifies the voltage and gates it with a PWM driving an optocoupler so that the high voltage cannot spike his PWM. The pulse train is now gated HV at 120hz going into the bifilar coil. The bifilar coils has natural self resonance but to allow that to happen he provides a toroid core for the coil to self resonate around just like my secondary is on my schematic and he allows a time period for it to do so in the gate. But he cannot allow the voltage in the bifilar to go backwards towards the transformer so he places an high voltage diode in that return path.
The wider the gate, the more time the coil has to self resonate and send voltage to the cell.
It doesn't matter what frequency you drive the bifilar coils with because when the power is switched off by the gate the coils will self resonate around the toroid at their own natural self resonant frequency. and that is the energy you use to drive the cell not the 120hz.
We build transformers incorrectly and always have done.
I hope you all understand that and I have drawn a schematic of my own that is showing how Stan's VIC works below. Thankyou all, good luck, its been a blast.
Last night for the first time I twisted a 1k pot on a circuit and saw amps go down and voltage go up. All the ideas i've had in the past about where the self resonance comes from and the energy, it is quite ironic that it reveals itself when you are least expecting it and TBH i've never tried to build self resonant coils in the past but the truth is - you don't have to build them, they create themselves. At this point you'll be wondering what the hell i'm talking about but bare with me.
The other day I built a very strange toroid core out of steel wire and on this core a placed a simple primary, the coil seemed to be self resonant and use no current at 3.18khz, didn't even get warm in the slightest when it should have done in a very lossy core.
Didn't have a clue what was going on really until late last night. There are three photo's below, I want you to look at my schematic of the double toroid I built in red and black.
Two days ago I mentioned to a friend of mine that when this transformer network was in operation I could hear some sort of argument taking place between the primary and the secondary and the secondary sounded like it was spluttering or delayed. I pondered over it but couldn't figure it out, anyway last night I decided to gate the toroid transformer.
Here is what happened: During the gating period the secondary self resonates at a frequency of its own that is different from the supplied frequency. When you widen the gate time the voltage from the secondary goes up. This is because you are providing a longer period of time for the secondary to self resonate. But here is a question, how is it self resonating?
Well, its all about providing an inductor with a path to self resonate and in this case it is the smaller fatter toroid. The inductor is self resonating around the smaller toroid at its own natural self resonant frequency when the power is turned off.
It does this because the fatter shorter toroid is more suited to allow it to do so.
Now, with that in mind I want you to look at Stan's figure 8XA below. Stan only uses 60hz and chops the frequency with a bridge rectifier to 120hz. He then gates the frequency into the bifilar coil and at this point there are gated pulses of 120hz going into the coil. Notice the coil arrangement there are two pairs of semi circles that surround the core. There has been many an argument as to what these are and some suggest they are magnetic field indicators but I'm telling you that they are a pair of toroids.
Here is what happens in Stan's 8XA: Stan uses 110vac then steps the voltage up with a transformer, he then fully rectifies the voltage and gates it with a PWM driving an optocoupler so that the high voltage cannot spike his PWM. The pulse train is now gated HV at 120hz going into the bifilar coil. The bifilar coils has natural self resonance but to allow that to happen he provides a toroid core for the coil to self resonate around just like my secondary is on my schematic and he allows a time period for it to do so in the gate. But he cannot allow the voltage in the bifilar to go backwards towards the transformer so he places an high voltage diode in that return path.
The wider the gate, the more time the coil has to self resonate and send voltage to the cell.
It doesn't matter what frequency you drive the bifilar coils with because when the power is switched off by the gate the coils will self resonate around the toroid at their own natural self resonant frequency. and that is the energy you use to drive the cell not the 120hz.
We build transformers incorrectly and always have done.
I hope you all understand that and I have drawn a schematic of my own that is showing how Stan's VIC works below. Thankyou all, good luck, its been a blast.