SQM Replication Project Update 25-12-05.

Hi Everyone, Merry Christmas. Below is nearly two months of hard work and a lot of study of Mr Searl's (SEG) Magnet conditioning method, a device I have nicknamed "Medusa". This device is designed to output a sine wave and have a capacitive discharge at the zero crossing as Mr Rosenthal said back in his emails nearly 12 months ago. This device will give much more control over the conditioning coils. Here is how it works, the control board is connected to a function generator at the desired frequency, in this case we want 50Hz (Australian Mains Frequency). The control board is separating the frequency into a flip flop switch for the IGBT's, so if an input of 50Hz is input the IGBT's will switch to an on state of 25 Hz each at 180 Degrees out of phase so one is on while the other one is off and vise versa. The two IGBT's at the front of the device switch two separate coils each. I currently have two Car Batteries, 12V and using about 6Amps here but can change it if this is not enough. When the IGBT in the picture on your right hand side is switched on the IGBT at the back with the big black heat sink is switched on. The power source is the capacitive bank below in  the next pic.

Warning: There is high voltage from the mains here in this circuit and it is very dangerous. We are not responsible for injury to ones self if this circuit is attempted.

I have rewound the Conditioning coil, I have now put three coils on the outside. The Capacitive discharge coil is 360 turns of 1mm enamelled wire. This is the inside coil. The next coil out is 180 Turns of 1mm enamelled wire and the third coil is the same 180 turns of 1mm Enamelled wire. The two outside coils are to produce the sine wave, so one coil has a south pole out the top of the tube when its on and the other coil will have a north pole out the top of the tube when it is switched on. When the coil that has a south pole out the top of the tube is switched on the Capacitor bank is switched on with the same polarity, (South pole out the top of the tube). Now many will say why not just use the one IGBT. Well it is for flexibility. The frequency in the form of a sine wave can, with a few small adjustments, be used to bring the magnets into a resonance if needed and other frequencies can also be used if needed.

These IGBT's are awesome, they switch so accurately and the power they can switch is unreal. They are rated at 1200V at 600 Amps and have a repetitive peak collector Current of 1200Amps and the total Power dissipation is 3900Watts, in other words these things are grunt boxes. ;O) Really they are a bit of over kill for the application currently when compared to the Video with Mr Sweet and Mr Bearden when they were using 200V @ 1600uf.

I have to further test this setup but I do expect some good results from it and hope to have some results up soon. I am also looking more to the SEG conditioning as a possible alternative to the SQM conditioning. There is a difference between the two and this would be significant to the operation of the SQM in my opinion.

I want to thank many people out there for their support again I never expected so much support on this project. I was speechless when I got an email form a long time supporter of the project that had a fantastic video attached to the email. Click here to see Andrey's fantastic work. Thanks to Dale to for your fantastic Scientific discussions. To everyone else, if I have not replied to your email I am sorry. I try to get to everyone of them.

Well more coming soon as always.