Fred,
Sorry that I did not get back to you right away, But yes we did spend
the bucks on this machine, but in that figure we did build a little
model of it. We wanted to know that my lab notes were correct, the
model did one thing the big machine did another. It was very
frustrating at the time, the magnetic fields were so much bigger then
the model. But when that baby fired up and started charging those big
batteries what relief. Any machine when scaled up will have it's
problems at first and we had them. Ben was right in when he said I
took his name in vane, I took my own in vane. As I have stated the
machine is from the 70's it's just been in my lab books all these
years. I did take peter and I about a month to machine all the parts,
some we had to do by hand. The batteries were about 300 pounds each
cell, and we broke one, six gallons of acid on the floor, we were
eaten alive trying to get the acid off the floor. We moved the
batteries by hand into position. The batteries were sitting for about
a year in fair condition, the machine charged them right up. The
charging takes 36 hours each time we cycle them, we run the energizer
24/7. Hope this answers some of the question you might have, anyway
have a good evening.
John