[NewCandle] Schlicher 'drive'

[John Steck]

Kyle,
I will work with you to develop a new unit...  are you a 'start cutting 
pieces and fit them together as you go along and document later' kind or a 
'engineer the crap out of it with calculations, simulations, drawings, etc. 
before you begin cutting' kind of person?  I ask only because of the 
inherent conflicts when mixing nuts 8^).  I fit in the latter category, BTW.

First thing I would like to do is 100% reverse engineer what you have as the 
baseline.  Once we have that modeled up (in the computer), we can 
interrogate the configuration and see what elements should be tune-able so 
that we can do some high level DOE.  From there we can generate a scale 
model that incorporates those adjustable elements and then start building 
it.  Don't sweat the funding... I am a very resourceful scrounger with a bag 
full of favors I can call in any time.  Lets see what we need and we can go 
from there.  Once we have a good test platform to work with, it should be 
fairly straight forward to isolate the key elements of the design and 
determine the sweet spots that generate the greatest output effects.

What is your comfort level taking dimensions and generating sketches?  Feed 
the info to me and I can build it on my end in 3D and generate some 2D 
prints.  We can trade info back and forth until we get it right.  Worse 
case, you loan me the unit and I bang it out in a couple days (I do 
consulting work like this from time to time so it's not a big deal).  Being 
a unique item, my preference is to not risk the item shipping to me however. 
It's your call.

I'm in if you are game to try.

-john


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From: "Kyle R. Mcallister" <mcallister at fdscience.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:30 PM
To: "New energy for the new world." <newcandle at ipdiscover.com>
Subject: Re: [NewCandle] Schlicher 'drive'

> John Steck wrote:
>> Kyle,
>> First impression... the structure looks to be somewhat dynamic.  If there 
>> are critical elements of the geometric form, this particular unit may 
>> give variable/inconclusive results even if you solve the pulsing problem. 
>> Is there a function that drives the length of the wire structure?
>
> Function as in? Not sure exactly what you mean here.
>
>> Can the wire structure be braced with non conductive elements or spiraled 
>> to increase rigidity/stability?
>
> John suggested that I brace the wires with pieces of balsa wood or 
> something like it. There are a few there that he put on it. I remember him 
> saying something about the forces tending to distort the antenna under 
> certain circumstances.
>
>> Apart from the device itself, did John give you any drawings, 
>> construction notes, design guidelines associated with the unit you have? 
>> If you could help me identify key elements/relationships of this unit (as 
>> much you can understand), I could try and come up with a more controlled 
>> test platform to isolate the key elements that produce the greatest 
>> effect...
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't get much else. He ended up sick for a long time 
> after I got the unit in the mail, and once he recovered, I hadn't the 
> ability to work on it due to 'real life' things. Once I got back into it, 
> and he started helping me with suggestions, it was only a short while 
> before he was in the hospital. The last time I spoke with him, I didn't 
> even recognize his voice, due to the Parkinson's medications. I never 
> spoke to him again; I received a phone call a few days later that he had 
> checked out of the hospital, gone home, and then simply dropped dead.
>
>> lengths, angles, gaps, gages, spacing, materials, insulation/isolation. 
>> Maybe a 1/2 scale unit to reduce the overall power requirements to drive 
>> it?
>
> The angles of the device are supposed to be important, both as per the 
> patent, and from my talks with John. He said the return path angle had to 
> be different from the 'petal' angle. The explanation given in the patent 
> wasn't obvious, and he had a sort of hard time explaining it over the 
> phone. I've considered building a smaller scale model and testing it, but 
> I don't know what parameters the scaling might change.
>
> Any ideas where to move forward at this point?
>
> --Kyle
>
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