Under the FFF
Dear Nat,
Yea, we all have looked at the coatings under the FFF and noticed that there is something there that is not disclosed in its construction -at least in that demonstration equipment. It will probably be one of the many details that will never be solved completly.
One speculative idea - PVC water pipe gets its color from added lamp black (carbon dust). This additive gretaly reduces the surface dielectric strength of this material. I understand that this is sometimes a problem in the construction of Tesla Coils. Anyway, perhaps Mr. Cole was not happy with the natural insulation properties and took measures to increase the integraty of the non-conductive surface, but who knows.
If there was something under the FFF windings then its impact on the individual delay lines would not be balanced since the outer winding is further away than the inner winding. At lease if it was an electrostatic process. Now if it were a magnetic process then it would be a much more balanced system. Especially if that magnetic process was between the windings directly and not between the windings and the surface of the coil form.
The EMA4 Engine definatly had the grounded engine case under the FFF windings, perhaps Mr. Cole thought that a ground plain would be needed here as well. Now, the Cannady demonstration claims that Mr. Gray used a coil of cable about 30" (6-8 turns)in diameter as his "Resses Coil". If this was the FFF then there was no ground plain involved.
The EMA6 Engine doesn't display a component that can be taken as a FFF device, however there was plenty of room in those three switching power supplies to put them there. Maybe Mr. Hackenberger figured out a way to eliminate them from the technology? (I think not - he only hid it better).
In any case, for what we see of the FFF cables it seems that they are built for HV - much higher than the nominal 3KV that the storage capacitors are alledgely to have attained. If 10-20KV pulses were being derived from the induction coils then the FFF would see a pretty hefty voltage drop from end to end as a sharp HV pulsed started its journy to the storage capacitor. The voltage at the capacitor would be much lower than the initial peak voltage of the pulse. Now, once the actual current wave was established the voltage would drop like a rock, but for the first few nano seconds the FFF would have to have the dielectric strenght to survive these impulses.
I suspect that the FFF was the means to store the generated non-classical particles for a few millisceconds before they were used to fire the opposing electromagnts. Thus, all the insulation is intended to keep these particles contained. I further suspect that there were two polarities of these particles and they strongly attracted each other - that is why they stayed in the FFF reflecting from end to end until a low impedance path was provided. Perhaps, the ground plain help with the storage properties, but who knows?
I have never placed any kind of transducer in the center of my FFF coils, but it is certainly something to keep in mind. I'm still examining the details of short sparks that are generated with components lile this.
Mark McKay
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Yea, we all have looked at the coatings under the FFF and noticed that there is something there that is not disclosed in its construction -at least in that demonstration equipment. It will probably be one of the many details that will never be solved completly.
One speculative idea - PVC water pipe gets its color from added lamp black (carbon dust). This additive gretaly reduces the surface dielectric strength of this material. I understand that this is sometimes a problem in the construction of Tesla Coils. Anyway, perhaps Mr. Cole was not happy with the natural insulation properties and took measures to increase the integraty of the non-conductive surface, but who knows.
If there was something under the FFF windings then its impact on the individual delay lines would not be balanced since the outer winding is further away than the inner winding. At lease if it was an electrostatic process. Now if it were a magnetic process then it would be a much more balanced system. Especially if that magnetic process was between the windings directly and not between the windings and the surface of the coil form.
The EMA4 Engine definatly had the grounded engine case under the FFF windings, perhaps Mr. Cole thought that a ground plain would be needed here as well. Now, the Cannady demonstration claims that Mr. Gray used a coil of cable about 30" (6-8 turns)in diameter as his "Resses Coil". If this was the FFF then there was no ground plain involved.
The EMA6 Engine doesn't display a component that can be taken as a FFF device, however there was plenty of room in those three switching power supplies to put them there. Maybe Mr. Hackenberger figured out a way to eliminate them from the technology? (I think not - he only hid it better).
In any case, for what we see of the FFF cables it seems that they are built for HV - much higher than the nominal 3KV that the storage capacitors are alledgely to have attained. If 10-20KV pulses were being derived from the induction coils then the FFF would see a pretty hefty voltage drop from end to end as a sharp HV pulsed started its journy to the storage capacitor. The voltage at the capacitor would be much lower than the initial peak voltage of the pulse. Now, once the actual current wave was established the voltage would drop like a rock, but for the first few nano seconds the FFF would have to have the dielectric strenght to survive these impulses.
I suspect that the FFF was the means to store the generated non-classical particles for a few millisceconds before they were used to fire the opposing electromagnts. Thus, all the insulation is intended to keep these particles contained. I further suspect that there were two polarities of these particles and they strongly attracted each other - that is why they stayed in the FFF reflecting from end to end until a low impedance path was provided. Perhaps, the ground plain help with the storage properties, but who knows?
I have never placed any kind of transducer in the center of my FFF coils, but it is certainly something to keep in mind. I'm still examining the details of short sparks that are generated with components lile this.
Mark McKay
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