Focusing back on the LCR resonance Circuits as Tuning Forks.Before any experiment, I would like to think through the equipment required and the various experimental steps. I would like to imagine in my mind what the expected results are. There may be surprises. But the surprises will be good learning experiences.
1. If we have two identical LCR circuits, they should be able to go into “sympathetic vibrations”. One should excite the other and vice versa. Thus, once started, we may not need a power source.
This appears to be the case with the Steven Mark Device and the Joule Ringer.
2. With LCR circuits, the resistance R does not affect the frequency that much. It will affect the Q factor. From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance,
The quality factor or Q factor is a dimensionless parameter that describes how damped an oscillator or resonator is,[8] or equivalently, characterizes a resonator's bandwidth relative to its center frequency.[9] Higher Q indicates a lower rate of energy loss relative to the stored energy of the oscillator; the oscillations die out more slowly. A pendulum suspended from a high-quality bearing, oscillating in air, has a high Q, while a pendulum immersed in oil has a low one. Oscillators with high quality factors have low damping so that they ring longer.
3. A tuning fork by itself does not sound very loud. The sound can be increased substantially in intensity via a resonance box. An LCR circuit may be similar. The Observer experiment with the TV Flyback Transformer showed that the matching of the frequency of the signal generator to the transformer is important.
In the toroidal type transformer setup with a primary and multiple secondary LCR circuits, the toroid may need to be in resonance with the LCR circuits. This may be the difficulty faced by the many replicators of the Steven Mark TPU.
4. With FLEET, we were lucky to start with the concept of resonance in mind. I treated the basic joule thief as the pulsing source with a LCR primary and a LCR secondary. Since these two are closely coupled via the transistor, I did an extra winding on the toroid. In some of the testing, I did two extra windings on the toroid. At that time, I did not have the notion of comparing it with the tuning forks yet. However, the results indicated that we could achieve Output Power greater than Input Power easily with the additional windings..
When I bought my FLEET prototypes to USA, I did not have any oscilloscopes to use. When sending to Poynt99, the prototype was damaged in shipping. Poynt99 re-soldered one of the connections. That changed the resonance condition. Since Poynt99 did not believe in resonance bringing-in electron motion energy, he gave up and claimed that FLEET never worked.
PhysicsProf received two FLEET prototypes. One occasionally showed Output Power is greater than Input Power. The effect was not always reproducible. (This is actually a characteristic of resonance. A small change can shift the resonance condition and frequency.) PhysicsProf focused on the basic Joule Thief. He will work on FLEET, the Joule Ringer and other Resonance Circuits later. Now Rosemary and EMdevice also have interesting resonance circuits.
5. Now the computer model of the tuning fork bringing-in kinetic energy of air molecules was completed on March 8, 2011, I gained much insight. The most important is to use multiple LCR circuits and the matching of resonance with other components such as the Toroid.
Instead of blindly following someone’s half disclosed work (or deliberately misleading work), we can use the theory to guide us. Instead of waiting for someone to define the exact configuration to achieve resonance or sympathetic vibrations, we can look for tuning tools and techniques to try to achieve the result.
6. Some teams in Hong Kong, China and now Russia already told me that they would not disclose their results freely on the Internet. They are looking for good financial returns. I respect that as people have different priorities and experiences in life.
I do not mind being called “stupid or crazy” and disclose the theoretical and actual experimental results to the World. At present, I do not have the basic tools such oscilloscopes in USA yet. It will take me some time to get experimental results.
However, that will not stop someone else to experiment based on the multiple LCR resonance concepts.
The water has been turned to wine. More than one server can taste and serve it to the Masses. (Interpret and produce products.) Amen.