I am probably the guilty party that brought up the idea of flux switching, as I noted the flux path when pointing the apparatus along the N-S line would divide along 2 paths in the square cores (with the center leg removed) as shown in the marked up figure 3.6.
Agreed, this is just a wild guess on my part, but if the centrally disposed coils (inside the square cores) are truly the output coils, as stated in the patent, It seemed logical to extend this description into the idea that the flux must be somehow be oscillating between the two available paths.
I welcome other ideas for how this might work, I was just trying to reverse engineer (working backwards from output to input) up to that point in the apparatus.
I have no idea of the influence of the basket weave coils or other parts of the circuit.
When I first saw the schematic diagrams of the Mark I many years ago, I was clueless to the operation, and to a large extent still am.
To my knowledge, no one has ever actually built a Mark I device. Most folks (including myself) move right on to the Mark III, which has better, but conflicting documentation, as there are many schematics available.
Perhaps we need to discuss and guess at some possible operational methods for these devices before building, so we know how to tune them and what to look for.
A complex build is probably unnecessary. A very simple proof of concept would suffice if we understood the concept. (big if)
I should probably change the text I inserted into the figure 3.6 to "may oscillate" rather than "will oscillate".
BTW, nice isometric drawings, GK. What program did you use for this?
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