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brief · · added 2 days ago
In October 1992 Perkins Technology and Admiral Sir Anthony Griffin went to Grove City, watched Meyer's bench demonstration, and agreed a three-phase programme to run a Volkswagen e...
letter · · added 3 days ago
A two-page fax memo from Russell Fowler, WFC's Executive Director of Personnel and Education, to the company's distributors, three weeks after Dr Nieper's letter. It says the over-...
thread · Stan's Legacy · · added 4 days ago
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observation · · added 5 days ago
Status observation, not a new design. No session improved, so this is a heartbeat summary of the runs. Since the last promoted design (Steam Resonator v5, 8/30 07:39) the autonomou...
thread · Stan's Legacy · · added 1 week ago
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calculation · STEAM · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Raise the fundamental into 1–30 MHz where a real cycle starts loading the Debye tail, but pair it with low-R chokes (lean on ωL, not resistance, for amp restriction) pl...
design note · STEAM · · added 1 week ago
Ran v5's sweep pushing the fundamental up into 1–30 MHz on the theory that a real cycle finally starts loading the Debye tail, while trying to keep amp flow restricted with low-res...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, 600 candidates, Randles + vapor-film ladder. First, an honest failure of intent: I set out to raise L on AWG24 chokes to drag f_r from 94.87 kHz down...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Finer grid at the tight 10/12mm×60mm best with a low peak_v corridor (12-14V → ~650-770V cell at Q~55) paired with a surface_factor sweep — the untouched lever — to tra...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Co-sweep Randles water/electrode levers (purity, temperature, surface) with moderated peak_v/duty at fixed near-best 10mm/50mm geometry to slide V_cell down from 837V/3...
design note · · added 1 week ago
All three reference papers point at the electrode-water interface as the governing region for the WFC, and map cleanly onto the Figure-8 / EDL-vs-Faradaic / vapor-film-Townsend fra...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Freeze choke near adopted 140t/0.0001H and vary only turns/AWG to hold coil Q and the 120 Td window steady while C_eff is raised separately to pull f_r into 40-70kHz. -...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Genuinely sweep choke L (with turns scaled to match) to drop f_r into 40-70kHz at higher C_eff, verifying the frequency lever moves before scoring; fine cluster near ad...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Fine grid at the 100µH Q-ceiling reference paired with unexplored >8mH high-L chokes so a shrunken-C cell lands sub-100kHz f_r while still holding tank Q to light the C...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — At C=1.37nF (1-2 cell), sweep per-choke L 3.7-9mH to land f_r in the untested 32-50kHz band with high-turn AWG18-22 coils, and raise peak_v (low duty) to drive Td towar...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Hold peakV modest (80-140V) but sweep a WIDER choke-inductance ladder above/below 581µH to move f_r off the water-branch-limited point and land Q in the 4-6 band from t...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Pull the vapor film from 350Td into the 150-250Td cold-chemistry window by dropping choke L below 581µH, damping Q to 4-6 from the resistance side (thin high-AWG turns)...