Gray Tube Replication

[nat1971a]

Mark,

I agree with you. Grays circuit is a wireless transmission circuit. This is why i have been reading up on old wireless transmission books many months ago. This was mainly on researching the thyratrons. Which was when it occured to me that grays circuit is definitely a wireless transmission circuit.

In one of the books i can't remember which one, you will need minimum 300ohms resistance for unidirectional pulses. This is why i am using 300ohm 200 watt resistors in my circuit.

Here's a link to some of these books.
Technical books online


Cheers,
Nat

[Spokane1]

On Going Experimentation

Mark,

How are your experiments going? We never hear much about what you are doing.....

Cheers
Nat

[Wicaksono]

insulation destruction by "something"

Hello Mr. McKay, a new unearthed information indeed ! It turns out that insulation degradation, whether of cable insulation or copper wire insulation is a generalized effect of cold electricity. As far as I know there are several causes of degradation : heat, ozone, and ultraviolet. Since you work with Tyco, which is a major cable distributor, is there any way to determine what is the cause of degradation, on the assumption that it is ordinary electric, not cold electric ? I see that Mark Gray did not mention any details about cable degradation.

[nat1971a]

Mark,

How are your experiments going? We never hear much about what you are doing.....

Cheers
Nat

[Spokane1]

Insulation destruction by "Cold Electricity"

Hello everyone, I'd like to address some unusual effects of gray motor. Number 1 is in the Cannady Interview; it is said that when the motor runs there is something like electrostatic force comes out from the motor. Number 2 is in Mark Gray interview; he said that they have to use special silicone filled cable because ordinary cable insulation is easily destroyed by cold electricity. Is there anyone knows & has more information about these unusual effects ? As far as I know there is no one that have been investigating about it. Thanks !

Dear Wicaksono,

An interesting observation made by Mr. Cannady adds additonal information about this phenomena. His comments were from a follow up phone conversation made after the interview tape was transcribed, so these facts didn't show up in the written report.

Mr. Cannady claims that he observed E.V. Gray rewinding a drill motor whose conductors had become degraded through exposure to "Cold Electricity". A short conversation followed in which Mr. Gray described additional details about the corrosive action that this new kind of energy rendered on to dielectrics. It was a problem that had not been solved at the time but solutions were being searched for. This process may account for the many breakdowns of the EMA4-E2 Free Energy Engine.

Mr. Cannady thought that it was this destructive aspect of this energy that was responsible forthis technology never reaching the market. This was not the case but it shows that the magnitude of this concern was strong enough to consider it as the downfall of tihs discovery.

I'm sure that Mr. Hackenberger was well aware of this problem. His design of the EMA6 greatly reduced the length and number of conductors exposed to the "Cold Electricity". He employed PM magnets for the rotor so this completly elminated the common rotor failure problems. By the time the EMA7 (aka the Blue Engine) was designed he had reduced the overall volume of the engine by 50%. This would also reduce the remaining overall surface area of conductors exposed to the destructive energy carriers. By this time (1979) the silicone filled conductors became avaliable or were found to offer greater resistance to the breakdown.

If Cold Electricity is really some form of "Charge Cluster" then the destruction can easily be understood. This will be one more engineering challenge to be solved once a circuit is developed that can reliably generate enough of these particles to be observed and measured.

Mark McKay

[Wicaksono]

unusual effects of gray motor

Hello everyone, I'd like to address some unusual effects of gray motor. Number 1 is in the Cannady Interview; it is said that when the motor runs there is something like electrostatic force comes out from the motor. Number 2 is in Mark Gray interview; he said that they have to use special silicone filled cable because ordinary cable insulation is easily destroyed by cold electricity. Is there anyone knows & has more information about these unusual effects ? As far as I know there is no one that have been investigating about it. Thanks !

[AgnesCornell]

CD duplicating

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[Spokane1]

E.V.Gray Battery Charging Pulses

Mark,

This 300-500 amp pulse could be what was charging the battery. I wouldnt discount it.

Well i did manage to test my theory of syncronized cap shorting and commutator (in conjunction with thyratron) and as expected it didnt work. This was before i broke the diodes & ignition coil. I would still like to test that with a diode instead of a thyratron however. The reason why i have been testing this is because i realized that the charge battery's were charging after i made my cap shorting video. They charged really high but didnt hold the charge.

Cheers
Nat

Dear Nat,

I have no doubt that this was indeed the case. If you follow the circuit laid out in the "Coil Popping" photos you can see how the primary of the "Major" electromagnet feed right back through the battery to recapture some energy.

Keep in mind that the main output of this technology was not classical electricity but rather torque. In the 87.5 HP model only 20% of the total OU was recycled in the form of classical electricity. The rest was all torque.

Mark McKay

[Spokane1]

Automotive Ignition Coils in E.V. Gray Technology

thanks for the reply mark,

i destroyed my 15kv 6amp diodes on the weekend and my ignition coil. the diodes were really expensive so i am puzzled by this happening!!

Dear Nat,

Under the right conditions automotive ignition coils can generate short output voltage pulses in the 60KV range. That is if it is a new high quality coil with low parasitic capacitance. This kind of output will toast a 15KV diode in short order.

Really Nat, I don't think that automotive igntion coils were used in the E.V. Gray technology. A typical ignition coil has a winding ratio of 1:100. A high performance coil will go as high as 1:200.

True, Dr. Chalphin described the first stage power transformer as being an automotive ignition coil - but I don't think they were wound the same way. The target output voltage was 3KV, not 60KV. The company that was hired to do the fabrication of these custom coils was directed to provide high voltage insulation for the secondary.

It is also true that a high voltage was developed (around 15KV) to provide the anomalous arc process, however that took place on the secondary side of the transformer formed by the "Major" electromagnet, so it was well isolated form the diode that was in shunt with the storage capacitor. This secondary high voltage didn't employ a diode, so there was no problem with diode destruction from over-voltage.

It appears that the purpose of the shunt diode is to provide a long DC pulse to the primary of the "Major" Electromagnet. What happens after that is anybodies guess.

Mark

[nat1971a]

Mark,

This 300-500 amp pulse could be what was charging the battery. I wouldnt discount it.

Well i did manage to test my theory of syncronized cap shorting and commutator (in conjunction with thyratron) and as expected it didnt work. This was before i broke the diodes & ignition coil. I would still like to test that with a diode instead of a thyratron however. The reason why i have been testing this is because i realized that the charge battery's were charging after i made my cap shorting video. They charged really high but didnt hold the charge.

Cheers
Nat

[nat1971a]

thanks for the reply mark,

i destroyed my 15kv 6amp diodes on the weekend and my ignition coil. the diodes were really expensive so i am puzzled by this happening!!

[Spokane1]

Rectifiers used in the e.V. Gray Technology

mark,

are you able to advise the model/ratings on the bridge rectifier that Gray was using? I keep destroying mine!!

Cheers
Nat

Dear Nat,

There were at least two rectifier systems used in the E.V. Gray Technology.

1) The rectifiers used to generate the 3000 VDC. The ones used in the last dual power supply ever built (For the blue engine) appear to be 5000V PIV at about 3 Amp. These were solid state units in a standard 4 diode bridge configuration. Two seperate bridges were used for the two HV outputs.

2)The pulse diode that was used in shunt (parallel) with the storage capacitor has never been disclosed or photographed. Its PIV would have to be larger than the 3KV charge on the storage capacitor. I would guess something between 5-10 KV. Its forward current rating would depend upon the amount of series inductance in the discharge loop. It appears to me that the "Minor" electromagnet served this purpose. My reproduction electromagnet has a value of about 850 uH, but that seems to be not enough.

In my bench top experiments I use an industrial motor control dual diode module rated at 1600 PIV at 375 Amps. With both diodes wired in series I get a PIV of around 3200 V, which is a little low for this application. This diode cost me $15.00 at a surplus store in Portland, OR.

With SPICE IV a loop inductance of 6 mH simulates a forward current of around 10 Amps, which greatly reduces the size of the pulse diode needed if this is the way it originally was intended to work.

If the series inductance is to high (and I think the 6 mH is to high) then the output voltage of the transformer drops way off and the arc only lasts about 200-400 microseconds. It is a trade off that has to be worked out. I can certainly see why Gray's developers used open core transformers since they are much harder to saturate under pulse conditions.

I believe that the series loop resistance was needed to prevent the core of the 'Major' electromagnet from saturating. I have had some real problems with that. Normally, transformer saturation is not a problem in many applications, but with large low impedance pulses from a capacitor it becomes a huge issue. Once the core salturates the inductance dissapears and the transformer acts as a short circuit. The resulting current pulse goes through the roof in the 300-500 amp region.

I don't believe this is what we want. Such large current pulses only last about 50 microseconds or less. I think we need much longer burn times for our arc. (But I could be very wrong).

I doubt that in 1973 that high current diodes could have fit into the enclosure of the EMA4-E1, not 12 of them at least. I'm sure 350 Amps diodes were available, but they would have been pretty expensive.

I think that when we get things worked out with the proper size series inductance we will only need 100Amps or so diodes.

Mark McKay

[nat1971a]

mark,

are you able to advise the model/ratings on the bridge rectifier that Gray was using? I keep destroying mine!!

Cheers
Nat

[nat1971a]

Thanks for the feedback mark.

I have acquired a dual pole relay to test my theory that the HV capacitor shorting and the commutator need to be syncronized. Will hopefully test it this weekend!!

[Spokane1]

Al Francouer's "Gold" Motor

Hi mark,

Do you know if al francouer is going to release any details on these motors/circuits?

Thanks
N.

Dear nat1971a,

Normaly Al is quite generous with the information he has. However his present employment rith now is seasonal and involves long hours. Apparently he is now working as a Forest Fire Camp Manager. This is long hours away from home and way out in the boonies. But, I think it pays pretty good.

Just before his season started this year Peter Lindemann and I visited Al and took several photographs. Al had already transcribed the surviving wiring. I reproduced these sketches into AutoCAD. I would be happy to relsease this information but it is based on Al's work and is his property. So, to maintain professional form I will let him be the one to disclose what he wants to and when. I think his season is over with by the end of October.

Keep in mind that the "Gold" Motor was an early pulse motor (circa 1964) and not a Free Energy Engine - there is a big differance between the two technologies. The Free energy phenomena was discovered while developing these industrial Pulse Motors (five models), so the Free Energy Engines have their roots in this design. However in 1980 Nelson Schlaft rewired this motor so that it would run on Ignitrons and 5000 VDC. What is left are these modifications. How the original Pulse motor was wired and how the electromagnets were wound has been lost, darn. But, there is still some information to be observed from the mechanical construction of the remaining hardware.

The puzzling issue is the power supply box that came with the motor. This was built in the late '70's. Mr Schlaft did not have the technical expertise to construct such a device, nor did Gray have anyone in his emlpoy after 1980 who could do it either. Given the history, only Mr. Hackenberger could have done this. This power supply was not electrically connected to the rest of the equipment on the cart.

This power supply employed two early IC pulse width modulators for voltage regulation (possibably a positive and negative version since the part numbers are different). Since only one adjustable potentiometer is provided I would assume that the dual 3KV voltage outputs were ment to track each other. Mr. Hackenberger must have had more time than money to build this device. I would estimate it took at least 200 man-hours of construction and engineering time by someone who knew what they were doing. The need for this power supply must have been urgent. Had this unit been built when the money was coming in Gray would have had this circuit custom fabricated. The switching elements are a cluster of four large power NPN transistor with TO-3 cases. There are two clusters on massive heat sinks. Most of the worked was tied up in the con struction of the controller.

I suspect that Mr. Hackenberger was very short of money. This was the circumstance that he found himself in in 1978. However he was in ernest to get this technology running again and he knew how to do it. The professional power supplies that were built for the EMA6 for the 1976 show had been confiscated by the FCC. So he probably canabalized the existing power supply from the "Gold" pulse Motor and upgraded it to meet his needs. As a result the chassis still fits the hole on the Gold Motor cart, so that is where it ended up when Gray packed up and left town.

As time permits I shall attempt to wring out a little more information about this power supply, but it will be up to Al as to what he chooses to disclose.

mark McKay