SQM Replication Project Update 23-08-05.

Well this weekend has been fascinating. Easy to magnetize and piece of cake to do what I wanted to do with them. They are a good size and strong enough to be magnetized in all directions easily. Building the Magnetizing circuits and fixtures took some time but was fun also. All in all this weekend was fun and a success. It has proved very important to magnetise the magnets and check the field patterns when magnetising the magnets. My magnetising setup is fully home made and being able to magnetise the Isotropic magnets in different ways is very interesting and very informative to see how the magnetic field is made in the magnet. I am only using 10,000uf at 1,200 Volts. This is enough to magnetise the magnets but not saturate magnets of this size. I think, at the moment I may not need to fully saturise the magnets. I have built the magnetization fixture and am very happy with its simplicity. I was up, and started, at 3AM this morning, here I was sitting there thinking about what I needed, and it popped into my mind. Many large magnets that have a flat face have a C-Frame to magnetise them. This would be costly to build and heavy to move around. I wanted a simple easy to move and magnetise magnetization fixture.

Front left centre is the Magnetising Fixture I built and the Capacitor Bank of 10,000uf  rated at 1200 Volts. The Magnet sits inside the Structure and the pulse then is discharged. This magnetises the magnet evenly and leaves a good magnetic field pattern in the magnet.

Here you can see we have replaced the amplifier also. It is a 550 Watt Optimus Amp. I have used a Micro Wave Transformer with a 10:1 ratio (So 100 Volts input is 1000 Volts output). The Diode Bridge is rated at 60 Amp and 1KV. The SCR is the same as the SCR as I used on the conditioning circuit. I have also used the same Triac I used in the original Conditioning circuit. Warning (Do not over charge Capacitors, They will explode!!!).

For those people that have not worked with Capacitors much, make sure you work out the ratings properly or you could end up with some problems and or injuries. Visit this page to find out more about Capacitors. Click Here.

Someone said to me today "I am not intelligent enough to do that". Well I nearly fell over, really intelligence has nothing to do with it. It is all about "WILL POWER". If you want to learn it you will. Most of us come from POOR family's that could not afford to send us to expensive collage's or university's to get educated. I thought to myself well the information is out there and I want to learn it. So I did. I have learnt a lot in 12 months and my circuits and experiments are coming a long way very quickly. One of my goals is to go to the moon while I am still alive and my deductions led me to believe, if I want to do it, I must do it myself. The government is not going to send me (or you) unless I come from a rich family that has influence or you are extremely lucky.

I suppose the lesson is to not underestimate yourself. AND DO IT. Check out Burt Rutan. (Hey he won the X-Prize) He is doing it as well.

 I am working hard, and most important, is to achieve the goal of a working SQM, and time will give us that goal. I have had a few offers of cash, but am not taking any Cash injections with expected returns. Donations are accepted but not expected. In this field there are to many rip offs and cheats. Hoaxers are the worst.

A few more people are ordering magnets and other hardware for their own SQM projects. Many are sending me Emails asking questions and a lot of questions are answered on the SQM replication page, but I don't mind sending an Email to answer their questions again. As long as these people share their Information as I have. 

I am very happy with this weekends efforts and am very excited about further experiments. Magnetising magnets is not just fun, it is great fun, and so simple. Remember Isotropic is what you want at this point of the SQM Replication stage. Oh I am also using a CRT, PC monitor, plugged in and turned on, to see the field lines. IBM Flat screen appears to be quite good. Next update I will post some pictures.

More coming soon everyone...