Lindemann on the "ecklin - brown" gen:
Taken from:
http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/271-electric-motor-secrets-3.html#post2375
and
http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/271-electric-motor-secrets-6.html#post7165
Dear Steven,
Sorry I never replied to this post. With everything else happening at that time,
it just slipped through the cracks. So anyway, here is my reply.
The resemblance of the generators shown at the end of Electric Motor Secrets and
the one's in your "fluxgate generator" link are NOT a coincidence. Actually, I
am the inventor! It's ancient history now, but here's what happened.
In 1980, John Ecklin began offering a $500 prize to anyone who could design a
viable generator to circumvent Lenz law. His original Stationary Armature
Generator patent was the beginning of this search. I was 28 and living in Hilo,
Hawaii. I ran dozens of experiments and eventually designed a machine I called
the "Mechanical Rotary Transformer" in September of 1981. I sent copies of the
design to John Ecklin and Bruce DePalma and asked for their advice. DePalma
showed my design at an alternative energy conference in Toronto, Canada in late
October, 1981 and it was seen by Pete Charles, an electrical engineer in the
Sacramento area.
In a letter I received back from John Ecklin on November 21, 1981, John writes
"I don't know how to advise you on a patent. I use the patent disclosure
document program...." He also writes "Your MRT-1 is a well engineered device."
All of my correspondence with John Ecklin is still in my files.
I took John Ecklin's advice and filed a patent disclosure document on the design
on December 1, 1981. My original copy was stamped Received in the Patent Office
Mail Room on December 4, 1981, file #104580. In that document I state "The
device, called the Mechanical Rotary Transformer (MRT) consists, in its simplest
configuration, of two "magnetic distributors" and four transformer cores and
coils firmly bolted together."
Meantime, Pete Charles was back home building the first unit. He had it running
by January 1982. He got my phone number from Bruce DePalma and called me.
Unfortunately, a guest in the house picked up the phone and didn't write down
the message, so I didn't know that Pete had called. When I didn't call Pete
Charles back, he just figured I wasn't interested. In March, a young engineer
showed up at Pete's place interested in testing the generator. That person was
Paul Brown. The infamous "Paul Brown Report" issued on June 15, 1982. In the
credits at the end, he states "We would like to express our thanks to Moss
Research who made this project possible." Moss was Pete Charles' wife's maiden
name and an alias he used once in a while.
I was first alerted to the existence of the "Paul Brown Report" when I received
a letter from John Ecklin dated September 12, 1982. In it he writes: "Dear
Peter, Have you seen the Paul Brown Report for Moss Research? It sure looks like
your Rotary transformer...."
The damage was done. In the days before the internet, nobody cared that I had
documents stamped in the patent office 7 months before the "Paul Brown Report"
issued. By that time, Paul was famous and I was just a "nobody". To this day, 26
years later, most people still have no idea who designed this machine. Mostly it
has been called "Paul Brown's Magnetic Distributor Generator". Your re-edited
copy of the "Paul Brown Report" document calls it the Brown Ecklin Fluxgate
Generator, but your document has taken Paul Brown's name off the back of the
report above the date.
The historic truth is, I worked out the design for this machine in the summer of
1981 in Hilo, Hawaii. Pete Charles built the first working model in Sacramento,
California in January of 1982. Paul Brown published the first written report on
a preliminary set of tests results in June of 1982, which included a number of
exaggerations. The machine is NOT capable of 300% operation. 120% efficiency is
about tops! And yes, these machines make lots of obnoxious noise! The unit I
show in the DVD was built by Michael Knox and is capable of about 700 watts
output. The picture shows a low power test, as you may notice, the light bulbs
were not to full brightness.
I moved to Santa Barbara in 1982 and with Michael Knox continued to work with
these designs for both generators and motors. Of all the variations on the four
coil/core configuration, the Flux Motor was the most important innovation.
Again, totally my design, built by Michael Knox.
At some point, I may scan all of these documents from my files and put up a page
on my website.
Until then, that is the history of the "Paul Brown Report" and the "Magnetic
Distributor Generator".
If you have any questions about these machines, I'd be happy to discuss them in
a different forum.
Peter
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"Thanks for putting these links up for people to study. The problem with most of
the Ecklin designs is that they DON'T work the way Ecklin imagined they would.
He was primarily a theorist, not a model maker. He did NOT test most of these
designs. During this period, I was working with Bruce DePalma and Michael Knox
in Santa Barbara, California. Either Michael Knox and I or someone else in
Bruce's larger circle tried every one of these designs. Many of them, especially
the ones with the AC coil and the DC coil on the same piece of iron, don't work!
The DC field is too strong in the local area and even opening and closing the
gap with the rotating iron piece causes almost NO FLUX CHANGE in the AC coil. In
some cases, special changes had to be made to the circuits to make them work at
all. But then it wasn't an Ecklin design anymore."
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'Brown Ecklin' fluxgate generator.
Anti Lenz-law effect. No rotor drag while load.
(Lenz’s law
states that any coil of wire will set up an opposite magnetic field
to counteract any change in its externally applied field. So if you bring the
north pole of a magnet toward a coil’s end, the electricity induced within
the coil sets up its own north magnetic field which repels the magnet, causing
you to put more energy into bringing them closer.
Then, if you pull the magnet away, the coil’s end becomes south and pulls you
back.)
In this generator the coil nor the magnets move. So Anti Lenz-law effect.
The generator can be driven by a very small motor.
Electro magnets can be replaced by neodymium permanent magnets.
Although due to the high initial starting resistance with permanent
magnets (magnetic lockup) You might first want to experiment with
electro magnets.
Magnetic cogging effect decreases after a certain rpm.
(First, metal flying past a magnet loses no energy. The piece
of metal velocity
increases as it nears the magnet, and decreases as it leaves, but both in
equal amounts. So from frame A to frame C, no energy is lost.)
(You can prove this to yourself by tying a piece of metal to a string, taping a
button
magnet to a table, and letting the metal swing back and forth above the magnet.
It does so for a long time, and only slows down due to air friction and
energy
lost in the string’s vibration.)
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