The Forbidden Current

The Forbidden Current · Volume II

System Anatomies

The bench, the materials, the machines, and 46 annotated system plates.

How the parts of an electrical world come to exist and how the big systems work: units and measurement, conductors, magnets, cells, machines, chemical energy, heat and cold. The plates show each system as an annotated anatomy (purpose, named parts, energy flow, governing principle, key numbers, failure modes, hazards). Systems are described, not given as instructions.

Outlined; drafting after Volume I. By Stephen Horton. Published by Quantum Armadillo, LLC.

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Contents (25 chapters)

Part VIII: The Bench: Units, Math & Measurement

  1. Units & Standards
  2. Working Math
  3. Circuits
  4. Instruments

Part IX: Materials: How the Parts Come to Exist

  1. Conductors
  2. Magnets & Magnetic Materials
  3. Insulators & Dielectrics
  4. Cells & Batteries
  5. Rectifiers & Detectors
  6. Repurposing & Longevity

Part X: Machines

  1. The Rotating Field & the Induction Family
  2. Transformers
  3. Generators & Alternators
  4. Power Electronics
  5. Shop & Fabrication

Part XI: Chemical Energy

  1. Electrolysis That Actually Works
  2. Hydrogen
  3. Ammonia & Urea
  4. Wood Gas, Charcoal & Biogas
  5. Electrochemistry at Work

Part XII: Heat & Cold

  1. Heat Engines
  2. Absorption Refrigeration
  3. Heat Pumps & Ground Loops
  4. Solar Thermal
  5. Thermoelectrics & Heat Cascades

Part XIII: System Anatomies (plates)

46 plates in six groups: bench and materials; generation; conversion and storage; electrolytic and chemical; heat and cold; signals, light and shop. Capstone: the whole-homestead energy-flow plate.

System anatomies are descriptive: what each system does, its named parts, how energy flows, key numbers, failure modes and hazards. They are not step-by-step instructions.

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