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battery is necessary to get a second charge-impetus after exciting with the one battery, and this for releasing the peculiar character of the apparatus. A test...confirmed this assertion in as much as the mechanism could not be start- ed with the single battery; on the contrary, the "adjust- ment" of the mechanism got disturbed. Current-indicators are built into each of the three cir- cuits mentioned, as well as volt-meters, behind some switch resistances necessary for the "adjustment". Between the open ends of the two plate-and-spool systems there are the terminal clamps for the effective circuit, for whose loading three bulbs of 8 volts are provided. The apparatus was then put into action and, above all, the load was tested with the aid of the built-in instruments; that is, on being loaded with [two to three] lamps... The consumption of energy in the external circuit i greater than the energy taken from the batteries. According to the circuit...the magnet-exciting circuit is fed by a special battery, completely separated from the other two circuits. Consequently, a direct comparison of effi- ciency and consumption of the apparatus would mean that only the sum of current of the plate circuit and of the spool circuit would count... 46 - NEXUS The reception of current from the two batteries in this case...was 1.7 watts, while the consumption of the bulbs amounted to about 8 watts. Especially striking in this con- nection is the considerably higher current-power in the bulb circuit, being about 12 times bigger than the current coming from the two batteries... Professor W. O. Schumann (Munich) also tested the Stromzeuger in 1926. His six-page analysis was included in an appendix of the BIOS Report: The apparatus in question principally consists of two parallel-connected spools which, being bifilarly wound in a special way, are magnetically linked together. One of these spools is composed of copper sheets (the spool is called "plate spool"); the other one of a number of thin parallel-connected isolated wires (called "spool winding"), running parallel at small intervals to the plates. Both spools can be fed by separate batteries; at least two batter- ies are necessary to put the spools to work. The spools are arranged in two halves each, according to the bifilar winding system. The batteries are attached to the starting points, and the current-receivers to the paral- lel-connected ends. Intercommunications are connected between parallel windings of the two halves of the plate spool which contain iron rods with silver connections. These rods are magnetised by a special battery through applied windings (called "exciter windings"). According to the statement of the inventor, the produc- tion of energy principally takes place in these iron rods, and the winding of the spools plays an important part in .. (The form of the spool is a long, small rectangle.) The inventor stated that the apparatus in its installation was very sensitive, especially with regard to the magnetic conditions of the iron cores, and that a wrong treatment [internal measurements] would cause interferences which would be wearisome and very difficult to be eliminated. The exciter winding is electrically completely separated from the other winding Installed in the apparatus were three current meters for the currents from the three batteries, and, furthermore, current and volt meters...for the current receivers. One and two bulbs respectively were employed for this pur- pose... As a striking fact it should be mentioned that the spool circuit, having been at first always switched on alone, received a current of 104 mA. As soon as plates and exciter circuit additionally and simultaneously were turned on, as, according to the inventor, the apparatus demands it, the current in the spool circuit [came] down to about 27 mA... After the present examination, carried through as care- fully as [possible], I must surmise that we have to face the exploitation of a new source of energy whose further developments can be of an immense importance... I believe that a further development of the apparatus...will prove justified and of great importance. In 1943, Hans Coler and Dr Heinz Frohlich made a report to the Research Department of the Admiralty (OKM) in Berlin, in which they described the Stromzeuger: The apparatus consists of three principal circuits which are interwound and intercoupled in a peculiar way. Some of these are divided again into single subsidiary circuits OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1998