The 2008 cache, set one: the VIC5 and the nine-cell cavity

Three photographs from 2008, published here first: the VIC5 coil formers, the VIC5 assembly, and the selectable nine-cell demonstration cavity Stan took to his conferences.

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The formers White plastic formers on a machined frame: two positions wound in fine enamelled wire, two still bare. Ringed, bottom right: the VIC5 primary. Spaced layers with tape between them, and four wires coming off it: a bifilar winding.
The assembly The two red chokes down the left, the blue secondary and the yellow primary on the right, and the VIC5 flat core between them; a power device on a heatsink and a dozen leads out to a terminal strip. Red: chokes. Yellow: primary. Blue: secondary. Green: PLL pickup coil.
The nine-cell demo cavity The selectable nine-cell cavity Stan took to his conferences: the bank of switches in front chooses between the tubes. The red in the water is characteristic, and not impurity: Stan Meyer rust.

Set one of the 2008 cache. Three photographs taken in David Holbrook's basement in 2008, before the estate sale broke the collection up, and published here for the first time. A new set goes up every month.

David is the son of Charlie Holbrook, Stan Meyer's friend and his assistant in the mid-1980s, and one of the names on the archive's register of the people who knew him.

What is in this set

The formers. White plastic formers on a machined frame, two positions wound in fine enamelled wire, two still bare. Ringed in the film, bottom right: the VIC5 primary, spaced layers with tape between them and four wires coming off it, which makes it a bifilar winding.
The assembly. The two red chokes down the left, the blue secondary and the yellow primary on the right, and the VIC5 flat core between them; a power device on a heatsink and a dozen leads out to a terminal strip.
The nine-cell demo cavity. The selectable nine-cell cavity Stan took to his conferences, the bank of switches in front choosing between the tubes. The red in the water is characteristic and not impurity: "Stan Meyer rust".

The windings, by colour: red are the chokes, yellow the primary, blue the secondary, and green the PLL pickup coil.

A nine-tube demonstration cell of this kind is described in Keith Hindley's eyewitness account of the Griffin committee demonstration, printed in Electronics World in January 1991, which is on the site in full. Hindley put the discolouration down to chlorine in the tap water attacking the stainless tubes.

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On screen · Photographs nobody has seen. Taken in 2008, before the estate sale. Three of them, published here first, and a new set every month.
On screen · A cache from before the sale. Photographed in 2008 in David Holbrook's basement. David is the son of Charlie Holbrook, Stan Meyer's friend and his assistant in the mid-1980s. Before the estate sale broke the collection up. None of it has been published anywhere.
On screen · The formers. White plastic formers on a machined frame: two positions wound in fine enamelled wire, two still bare. Ringed, bottom right: the VIC5 primary. Spaced layers with tape between them, and four wires coming off it: a bifilar winding.
On screen · The new site, one: everything cites everything. Write a citation in the prose of any page and it resolves to a real link, and the thing you cited grows a "Referenced by" entry that nobody maintains.
On screen · The assembly. The two red chokes down the left, the blue secondary and the yellow primary on the right, and the VIC5 flat core between them; a power device on a heatsink and a dozen leads out to a terminal strip. Red: chokes. Yellow: primary. Blue: secondary. Green: PLL pickup coil.
On screen · The new site, two: the VIC Matrix, running in the browser. Every matrix calculation with its parts and profiles, sweeps you can put side by side, and the measurement sessions behind them. Six simulators, built from the parts in the library.
On screen · The nine-cell demo cavity. The selectable nine-cell cavity Stan took to his conferences: the bank of switches in front chooses between the tubes. The red in the water is characteristic, and not impurity: Stan Meyer rust.
On screen · The new site, three: NeuralBench, a notebook kept by a machine. NeuralStan works Meyer's devices continuously and writes down what it finds, each entry carrying its confidence and its basis.
On screen · The new site, four: the library, and where every page came from. Patents with their families, prior art and citations; press scans, memos, manuals and transcripts, whole. Every photograph says who took it and where it came from.
On screen · Register today. Reading the archive needs no account. An account is for taking part: the forum archives and live channels, messages and calls, the marketplace and the workshops.
On screen · These three are ours. © 2026 Stan's Legacy. All rights reserved. Ask before republishing, and credit the archive. The tiled mark is drawn on the pixels, and the same credit is written into the file as IPTC and XMP.
On screen · A new set every month. Set one of the 2008 cache is up now, beside the patents, the press, the memos and the matrix.

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