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Electromagnetic Field Anomalies
Author: Timothy M. Ventura
Date: May 23, 2002
Warning Notice:
This document is intended for educational use only! The project described in this document uses
extremely high-voltage power-sources, and is intended for readers over 21 years of age who are experienced working with
dangerously high-voltages. If you are not a legal adult, or are not proficient working with dangerously high-voltages, do not
try to build this project without expert supervision. The author of this document is not responsible for any death, injury, or
property damage resulting from or relating to the procedures shown or devices described in this document.


Overview
This document provides an overview of some anomalous magnetic and electrostatic field effects
encountered while testing the 3-foot Lifter for some acquaintances on May 23rd, 2002. The acquaintances,
named Merlin Del Orion & Gary Hawkins dropped by with both an electrostatic field detector and the
magnetic field detector, and Merlin was kind enough to perform some very preliminary tests on the 3-foot
lifter using 50-gauge stainless wire during testing:

Magnetic Field Anomalies
Merlin's magnetic field detector failed to function adequately today during and for a duration of 10-minutes
after shutdown of the Lifter. It not only failed to pick up a field from the Lifter itself, it also failed to pick up
the Earth's field for a distance of approximately 20-feet around the Lifter.

Merlin's detector beeps in the presence of a magnetic field -- when he waved it from side to side in the
Earth's field, it would beep regularly if moved at a certain speed. Per Merlin, this is a normal effect of
passing the magnetic flux meter through the Earth's field. However, once Merlin brought the field detector
within the approximate vicinity of the operating Lifter, it not only failed to pick up a magnetic field from the
Lifter itself, but also failed to pick up the Earth's Magnetic field itself. This effect persisted for 10-minutes
after turning off the Lifter, after which the magnetic field detector readily picked up a strong signal from the
Earth's magnetic field in the presence of the Lifter (non-functioning).

Electrostatic Field Anomalies
Merlin also tested using an electromagnetic field detector, which he stated should pick up nearly all
frequencies of EMF radiation, and did so with the Lifter turned both on an off. While the Lifter was
operating, he detected a strong band a 8 megahertz & 15 megahertz on the EM spectrum, however, during
operation of the Lifter he did NOT pick up the 70hz output from the HV output of the monitor. I am not an
expert on monitors, but he believed that it should be either picking up this or picking up a 15 kilohertz
signal from the flyback, emanating off the power-supply feed wires (at the very least) of the Lifter.

When the Lifter was powered down, he noticed an immediate drop in the 15 MHz band of the spectrum
down to 14.8 MHz -- which we could not pinpoint, and should not have occurred as a result of the Lifter due
to it being unplugged form the power-supply.

Power-Supply Testing
Merlin also allowed me to perform some testing on some highly-calibrated high-voltage supplies. Of the
supplies that we tested, the variable voltage (up to 90kV) supply seemed to work the best -- the voltage drop
on the smaller supplies pulled it down below where it could function.

The 3-foot lifter, which weighed approximately 2 ounces on my postal scale, and had a 12-foot length of
lifting surface (sum total of the entire wire-foil combination), required a very precise voltage of 17.5 kV
minimum to lift off. This voltage seemed to require between 1 & 2 mA current (fluctuating) to function.
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Lifting improved, of course, up from 17.5 kV as we increased the voltage, but problems with the balsa
structure prevented us from testing with voltages higher than the mid-20's in the kV range.

Speculation and Notes
We only did a few minutes of testing with the EMF detector, but we did a LOT of testing with the magnetic-
field detector -- enough to determine that while the Lifter is turned on it seems to completely suppress
magnetic fields in the immediate vicinity. At first we assumed that the detector was simply failing because
the Lifter was in the garage and that rebar in the concrete was throwing the fields off, however, we made the
correlation when we noticed that the detector started functioning perfectly fine in the garage after the Lifter
had been off for a few minutes. We performed this test a few times, and checked the power in the detector to
ensure that it wasn't a simply malfunction.

Other Strange Effects
Merlin brought a compass and held it up to the vice mounted on my test-surface as well as a steel-cabinet on
the floor near the workbench (you can see the vice in more recent videos). The body of the vice was slightly
magnetized N and the "clamp" (the jaw of the vice that slides) had a slight S polarity. The cabinet was the
same way -- the body of the cabinet was slightly N and the sliding door of the cabinet was slightly S. These
were both facing the same direction in the garage. This may actually be normal, but I thought that I would
include it as it may turn out to be pertinent later.