Important Notes

This article is only a small part of the complete Bob Beck Protocol
article. Do NOT read this article without reading the complete Bob
Beck Protocol article first:

Main Bob Beck Protocol Article

This article is only on how to build your own magnetic pulser. This
article does not talk about how to USE a magnetic pulser. This article
comes from a group in Argentina.

However, if you can afford to buy a magnetic pulser you need to read
the main article on Magnetic Pulsers. Here is a link to the main article
on Magnetic Pulsers:
The Main Article on Magnetic Pulsers

Or if you do build your own magnetic pulser, you still need to read the
main article on Magnetic Pulsers to know how to use the one you
build!! Here is the main article on Magnetic Pulsers:
The Main Article on Using Magnetic Pulsers

The Argentina Winding Method (in their own words)

Dr. Beck used a Vivitar model 1900 flash unit to power his magnetic
pulser. You can go to a good camera store and buy a used one or try
to find a unit as close to the same power as the Vivitar.

We did not have a Vivitar 1900 flash so we used another model

maybe with a smaller capacitor. We tested this model by placing a
one inch iron washer (one that is attracted to a magnet) 1.2 mm thick
with a 1/8 inch hole in the middle, on the North side of the coil,
offsetting its center 1/2 inch from the center of the coil.

When we fired the Pulser the washer jumped 9 inches upward.

Remember we do not know what the flash capacitor rating was.

The problem was that the flash unit, after several days use, started
firing slower and slower and it soon fired every 30 seconds instead of
12. The important thing is to do 300 firings, never mind the time, as it
is obvious the number of pulses, not the time counts. Finally it quit on
us.

We then built the Pulser according to the Bob Beck diagram and used
the same coil as in the flash unit. Using the same iron washer, if we
put the washer on the center of the coil it does not fire it much, but as
we moved it a bit off center it flew away and was fired slightly up and
sideways. Since the unit was on top of a table, the washer landed
about 8 ft. from the coil, very similar to the following Bob Beck
demonstration in this tape (Note: The demonstration is at minute 33,
but they used a smaller 3/8 inch washer and it flew away much
further.):

Good Video

The Instructions

Here is how to wind the coil for the Beck Pulser. The instructions
seem more complicated than what the job really is. The winding can
be done in one hour or less. It will wind tighter by hand than using a
drill.

You can use this coil either with a flash unit or with the Beck circuit.

List of Things You Need:

A video tape cassette (from a full length tape not the short duration
ones):

Break the cassette and retrieve the spool

A 3/16 bolt 2 inches long, 2 washers 1 nut

A set of epoxy glue, the one that takes an hour or longer to get hard,
or a small tube of Silicone caulking

A thin wood 1/4 inch wide spatula to apply the glue

#14 gage (1.628 mm) varnish insulated copper wire, about a pound
and a half (some was left over)
Two pieces of plywood (1/4 inch will do) and cut them to the same
size as the spool or a bit bigger no need they be round, we made
them square.

Instructions

Make a 3/16 inch hole in the center of each plywood so the bolt will
go through

Drill a hole in the center hub of the spool and pass the wire so it
comes out of the center of the spool about 2 inches and coil it there
or see the next 2 steps

Drill a 3/16 inch hole about 1/4 inch off center on one of the plywood
reinforcements

Bolt the plywood at each side of the spool (to reinforce so it does not
break during winding) but be careful not to damage the varnish of the
copper wire which stays in the center hole of the spool or pass the
wire through the off center hole so it sticks out. This is so that when
you wind the wire to the spool one end of the wire will come out of the
center of the spool and the other at the end of the winding side.

Start to wind tightly and neatly so that the wire does not cross over
itself in the spool

As you finish each layer it is recommended that you put some fast
drying glue in a layer so that the wire is stuck to itself to avoid
vibration when you pulse. It will be a solid mass when it is finished
and dry. Do not put too much glue in each turn just a very thin film.
Some use nail polish.

Wind 135 turns. Let dry and take the plywood off.

Weld HEAVY insulated electrical wire quite a bit thicker than the
spool wire and then some more, 2.5 ft long to the ends of the wires if
you use a flash, but double that if you use the Beck wiring because
you will need to leave the box one on the floor as it is bulky. It is best
to insulate the coil wire and the weld with shrink tubing to avoid shorts
and varnish peeling.

Notice the spool at the center has one side with a big diameter and
maybe a centimeter deep. Pass the wire that comes from the center
thru the center hole of the spool TO THE OTHER SIDE. This is
because the side with the large center hole will go toward the person
(reason will be explained later)

Weld the male side of a strong round male/female plug to the end of
the two wires

Put the female part of the plug through a hole in the casing of the
flash unit or in the Beck diagram box, where it fits so that you can
make it firm, and weld the terminals to the leads of the wire that you
cut in the flash as per the instructions on the Beck diagram or the
flash unit instructions. Insulate well

Plug the flash or use batteries (or plug the Beck diagram box) and let
it charge till the charge light is on and fire it. You will hear a slight
thump, or not if the coil is tight and glued well

Now hold the coil vertically, take a magnetic compass and put it 6
inches away, and fire the Pulser.

If the North end of the needle turns toward the coil this means that
the face of the coil that looks at the compass is the North side of the
coil and if the needle of the compass points away it is the South side.

If the North side coincides with the large hole of the spool you are
fine. That is the side that will go to the patient. If not un-weld the wires
at the plug and flip the polarity. You need to have the North side to be
the one with the big hole at the spool center !!!

This was taken from another source: take a 1 inch washer 1/16 thick ,
with a 1/8 inch hole in the center and place it half inch off the center
of the spool and fire. It should jump up about 14 inches. See this
source:
Resource Page

THE HANDLE: take a rigid plastic tube 1 inch or a bit more in

diameter 10 inches long and cut a notch lengthwise the length equal
to the diameter of the spool and take out a slice leaving a bit more
than half the tube so that you can lay the tube flat on the spool
without it turning.

Drill a 3/16 inch hole in the tube so that you can bolt it to the spool
and get a 3/16 inch bolt about an inch and a quarter long with a nut
and 2 washers.

Insulate very well the leads and thread them thru the hole of the
handle and attach the handle to the spool with the 3/16 inch bolt

The head of the bolt goes on the handle side and the nut goes into
the large hole of the spool, so that everything on the North face is
smooth. The wire that comes out of the center of the spool hub
should not touch the skin.

"Plug and play" as they say of the computer hardware.

Other Comments

If you built the Pulser with a flash unit and plan to use it a lot I think it
would be nice to run wiring into the handle so that the light
announcing the capacitor is full would shine in the handle and also so
that the firing button would be in the handle. A 4 lead male/female
plug would be necessary then.

You would have then 6 wires going from the flash to the coil and you
can put them inside a flexible sheath or tube. This makes it easier to
pulse as you do that with one hand, while on the other scheme you
have to hold the flash in one hand to fire and the coil with the other
hand.

When you use the Beck diagram instead of the flash and plug itn the
electricity, the capacitors charge fully very fast so waiting 5 seconds
between pulses would be adequate.

It may be that the south pole is as bad as the north is good, so don't
fire the coil with your hand placed over it on the south side.