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Fran Giroux's Eyewitness Account of Sept. 7 Demo of Tilley Electric Car
From: "h2boost" <h2boost@a...> Norm Bolliger and I (Fran Giroux) drove down to Nashville to witness the test. It indeed went 13 laps (17 miles) and still had a full charge. We tried to get Mr. Tilley to fix the bearing and continue the demo but he called it a day after the break down. I did make it into the pit (limited access) and confirmed the breakdown and verified his demo. Mr. Tilley then met the rest of us (that couldn't get into the pits) in the parking lot and graciously answered questions (unrelated to the specific design of the device). I told him that we had driven 1200 miles to see the device and could we at least come to his shop and see his shop model device running all the electrics in his shop. He graciously invited us to come out and about 20 of us inventor types, including Jerry Decker (owner of the Keely net web site) and other experimenters went. We met for lunch for 3.5 hours before visiting the shop and wrote out questions to ask Mr. Tilley. His shop device was slightly different than the car version and he showed us how it all worked except for the important part which was sealed in an aluminum box. He described the insides of that box as very simple, easy to build with most parts off the shelf and costing about $25. He did rule out just about every design known to Keely net readers as well as magnet/coil power generation. The box has a shaft going into it that is turned by a motor of any kind and inside the box the device produces 12-14 volts DC with over unity of about 3:1. I have a few ideas how it might work but I'll have to research and try a few things before I show my ignorance by telling you my ideas. He did tell us that the secret inside the box is represented by the Tilley Foundation emblem with the concentric circles counter-rotating and a triangle and a couple v's rising and twisting during operation (but I think he was telling us that to throw us off). Mr. Tilley is a gracious, genuine man who has set up the foundation so that whoever purchases the technology must get it on the market to the public within three years or he or surviving board members or their lawyers will post the plans on the internet after three years if the buyers shelve the technology. They will keep the purchase money in any case but release the technology to us if it's shelved. You all might want to give Mr. Tilley an encouraging email with a word of thanks for his
graciousness and hard work. He has been battling nay-sayers for so long he is weary of it. He is
tired right now but encouraging emails would really pick up his spirits, so please thank him even if
you doubt his invention. By the way, we all got to touch and examine the car and the shop model
device, inside and out except for the contents of the aluminum box. We even took pictures. Mine for
some reason didn't all record on my digital camera but I has one picture of the counter-top shop
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