Hi Peterae,
Thanks for the breakdown.
>Interesting patent, need a bit more time to look it over.
The take away is that if three coils are centered tied, then in some cases a form of negative resistance will ensue even in the static AC condition. This type of -R can "only" reduce losses, but is easily confused with a power gain, which is a -R that is greater than the real R of the circuit.
I agree with Cyril that a power gain can result from the time delay in bucking coils, although I come at it from another standpoint. Although greatly interested in negative resistance, I thought in terms of creating a pulse so short relative to the length of the core that it becomes a distinguishable domain wall moving through the core (which I imagined as a long ferrite stick).
Then, the pulse is over by the time the moving domains reach the further coil, so no loading results. It takes little energy for the source to create the moving domain wall, and not only does it power the load at the far end, but the load reaction itself creates another domain wall moving back to the start. In this case, the source must become a sink after the initial pulse. Smudge may be referencing this possibility when he talks about the coils being suddenly connected to a low impedance.
The situation is made more complicated by using two bucking coils. Then the timing must be such that the return pulse doesn't overlap the source pulse. It almost seems as if the Bloch walls would pass through each other as solitons.
Although Smudge has suggested the effect can exist in continuous AC, I think a very short pulse is much more likely to get good results, initiated at one end of a decently long high mu ferrite rod, and measured at the other end.
A few notes interspersed below:
Post 1 explains that Smudge was able to simulate a negative resistance.
http://www.overunityresearch.com/index.php?topic=2773.msg45196#msg45196We switched to toroidal ferrite as it calculates out a stronger effect.
--It's just a hunch that a ferrite rod will work better. Perhaps because the ends of the rod represent 100% reflection.
More description in Post 20
http://www.overunityresearch.com/index.php?topic=2773.msg45368#msg45368I've not really tested that much so far, just been winding turns and testing these, the bucking tests will start tonight hopefully.
--OK, that's what I thought. When you started talking about a third coil, I thought I must have missed something.
Just to be clear when i post data like below then this is just my LCR meter measuring a coil at 100Hz, i can measure at 1KHz & 10KHz Also.
--Sure. Have to start with that.
orthofield
100Hz
L 360uH
Q 1.475
R 0.1534 Ohm
Z 0.2736 Ohm
Thanks
Peter
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