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3. The Back Current is Real and Comprised of Considerable Energy.

This back current is real and comprises considerable energy. Dr. Hastings testified that if one "touched the motor windings with just one hand," although wearing insulated shoes, as he had, one would "suddenly believe in the back current." [Dr. Hastings testified that he "did it [touch the windings] accidently" and he "had a sore arm for about a week."

He also collected the charge from this back current to power a transistor radio^1 and used the back power dissipated through a resistor to heat water so that he could precisely measure the power expended^2.

[^1. Dr. Hastings connected one wire on the battery side of the circuit and the other to a diode bridge to rectify the r.f. power running to ground; the output of the diode bridge was collected as charge on a capacitor and that voltage powered the transistor radio. As diodes are a "very inefficient" means to rectify r.f. power, the charge collected was necessarily "less than what was really there."]

[^2. By means of a calorimeter, Dr. Hastings calculated the back power. Dr. Hastings explained that a "calorimeter" is a "device that measures the temperature rise of water." In this case, "the resistor was placed in a water bath, the motor was run, current flowed through the resistor and as a result of the heating in the resistor the temperature of the water rose and he measured the temperature rise of the water versus time."]

Dr. Hastings conducted tests earlier, on a figure 5 prototype to dispel "a disbelief....[that] the large back current was not real."

Dr. Hastings' oscilloscope reading on a figure 5 prototype similarly confirmed there were "large staircase current spikes of significant time duration" that flowed "both in the coil and [in the] battery portions of the circuit."

By placing a circuit breaker in the circuit, Dr. Hastings demonstrated JN's device produced "very large current spikes" with current of sufficient magnitude and duration to open the breaker.^3

[^3. Dr. Hastings testified that not only must a current exceed the breaker's value, but it "requires some energy" as well and must therefore be "sustained for some period of time."]

Dr. Hastings confirmed it was the back current, not the direct current, that opened the breaker. He confirmed it by his oscillograph readings that the back current on the input side was 14 milliamps; using a calorimeter. He determined that the energy dissipated through a 500 ohm resistor was .1 watts and the current was therefore 14 milliamps.^4

[^4. As the power equation is the product of the current squared times the resistance, solving for current is the root of power (.1 watts) divided by resistance (500 ohms) or 14 milliamps.]

Dr. Hastings used a D.C. milliamp meter to measure the battery current at 1.2 miliamps, substantially less than the average back current at 14 milliamps. Dr. Hastings then confirmed again the 14 milliamps wasn't coming from the batteries because, according to the manufacturer's tables, 14 milliamps would have reduced the battery voltage significantly; the voltage was, however, undiminished.^5

[^5. Dr. Hastings confirmed the manufacturer's tables were correct by hooking a resistor to the batteries that drew down 14 milliamps; then the battery voltage dropped as the manufacturer predicted.]

These readings on both figures 5 and 6 conform with Dr. Hastings's earlier analyses of Dr. Neff Weber's oscillograph readings, taken from the same figure 6 prototype Hastings himself tested, except figure 6, as earlier configured^6, had fewer turns in the coil and therefore less r.f. power^7.

[^6. Dr. Hastings saw the prototype that Weber tested in 1981, also a figure 6 embodiment, consisting of a 500 pound rotor, a 4,200 pound coil of 5 gauge wire, and since it had no secondary winding, it was configured as a motor.]

[^7. Later, JN increased the r.f. power by increasing the number of turns in the motor so that the coil weighed 9,000 pounds. In Dr. Weber's earlier readings oof the same prototype, the r.f. is present but less pronounced as the coil in the earlier prototype only weighed about 4,200 pounds.]

Dr. Hastings observed oscillgraphs that were waveform traces of the input and output.^8

[^8. As the readings were taken on a "dual trace oscilloscope," Dr. Hastings observed "two inputs," both voltage and current.]

As the input waveforms were triangular, Dr. Hastings integrated, by use of a triangular function, the product of the current and the voltage to obtain the power input, 1.7 watts^9; Dr. Hastings made a similar integration for a different waveform on the output side and calculated the output power at 4.5 watts; thus, the device's efficiency was 260%.

[^9. Dr. Hastings testified, "There's a number of ways of evaluating that integral [of the input power]; there's graphical methods, there's numerical methods, and then there's algebraic methods..." Dr. Hastings used one method in his earlier submission to the patent office and another less time-consuming method at trial. Originally, Dr. Hastings used a graphical technique that "took about ten hours." The method used for presentation at trial only took "about an hour" as he "approximated the wave form by trying to shape sections and then did an algebraic calculation, and so there were differences in the results primarily because that technique [used at trial] is not as accurate." The difference is not significant, however, as "the answer [in either case] is sufficiently large enough."

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