Solar System as Electrical Transformer - Part 2
© 2017 Michael Clarage
Thanks to help from Ken and Susan, we built a larger version of the center core electrical transformer model of the Solar System, at the Electric Universe 2017 conference in Phoenix.
The center core transformer from Mercury to Saturn
Plenty of other people joined in.
You can refer to the earlier post "Solar System as Electrical Transformer" to get a lot more explanation about why I am doing this.
Design and Equipment
Coils were made of 24 and 36 gauge wire, with each "planet" coil given the radius and number of turns listed in the table below. These follow Bode's Law and Kepler's Law.
Orbits Venus through Saturn were of 24 gauge magnet wire. Since Mercury had 489 coils we used the much thinner 36 gauge for that.
The system is driven by an inner coil, the "Sun", whose magnetic field flips on a sine wave. We used three different inner coils, to examine how the system resonances depend upon the center coil.
Signal Generator, SainSmart High Precision Digital DDS Dual-channel Signal Source Generator Arbitrary Waveform Frequency Meter 200MSa/s 25MHz 2CH
Oscilloscope, Tektronix 1052B 50 MHz, 2 Channel, Digital Oscilloscope, 1 GS/s Sampling
Experimental Method
1) Put a "Sun" in the middle, which is a small coil of wire of various sizes and turns.
2) Drive the "Sun" with various frequencies, which flips the magnetic field, which mimics our own Sun's regular flipping of its magnetic field. We examined 1Hz through 1 MHz.
3) Use the oscilloscope to measure the response in each outer coil, note the frequencies which have a strong resonance.
Results
Center Sun: 50 turns of 24 gauge, 1.0cm diameter
Center Sun 5 turns of 24 gauge, 0.5 cm diameter
Use Mercury coil as the center coil, 489 turns, 36 gauge, 9.6cm diameter
Analysis
Mike Heckrotte, one of the participants, did some back of the envelope calculations on the self resonant frequencies for these coils. Despite the fact that the Mercury coil could have had an SRF of 84 MHz, the 50-turn Sun coil worst-case (lowest) estimate is 8 MHz and the 5-turn Sun coil worst-case is 189 MHz. These are much higher than the 42 kHz common frequency with both Sun coils. His conclusion is that the SRF of the various coils is irrelevant to most of the data points.
Conclusion / Discussion
The biggest surprise was that planetary resonant frequencies did not change much with the three different center coils. I had predicted that, but it was still great to actually observe it. In terms of the metaphor of the experiment, the arrangement of planets around in the solar system has its own intrinsic resonances.
The next surprise was that many planets shared the same resonant frequencies. For example, the 41 and 82 kHz was observed in most planets for all three center coils. I had expected that the coils would share some frequencies but also would each have their own unique frequencies. Why do they mostly all have the same resonance?
Why do only the larger coils have the resonances in the higher frequencies?
I expected the orbit for Ceres would show large interference, or a noticeable noisy signal. I think it did, but did not have any time to explore that. A noisy signal at the Asteroid Belt could explain why there is no one planet there.
Next Steps
Build again with a different size, like 2/3 of what we did here. See what that does to the resonant frequencies
Build again with a different number of coils, like 3/4 the number of coils we did here. See what that does to the resonant frequencies.
Lay out the transformer in a way that has nothing to do with Bode's Law or Kepler's Law
Include measuring absolute amplitude of the induced voltages in each coil.
Include the 3rd dimension by laying out the whole thing in spirals. Or at least be careful to lay out the coils so wires stack linearly, and not all bunched up.
Perform the tests in a location with less ambient RF - a large hotel in a metropolitan area is a pretty noisy environment.
Record the width of the spectral resonance peak - the maximum peak had a width that varied between coils.
Put a probe between pairs of planets - look for phase differences between planets, look for oscillations between planets, overtones, that go beyond the simple center driving frequency.
close up of the center core transformer model. The individual wires heading off from each coil go to the oscilloscope for measurement.
How many EU enthusiasts does it take to build the Asteroid Belt?