Jack Scholtze
Jack Scholtze | |
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| Residence | Hawaii, United States |
| Known for | Rodin Coil |
Jack Scholtze (also spelled Jack Scholze) is an independent researcher and experimenter based in Hawaii, United States, known for his hands-on work with the Rodin Coil and other unconventional inductor geometries derived from vortex-based mathematics.
Biography
Scholtze lives and works in Hawaii, the same location associated with Marko Rodin's vortex-based mathematics research. Rather than publishing in academic journals, he documents his experimental work publicly through video, maintaining a channel on which he posts build logs, measurements and demonstrations of the devices he constructs.
Work
Scholtze's experiments centre on electromagnetic devices, including DC and AC pulse motors, motor generators, battery chargers and energy capture devices. A recurring theme of his work is the systematic exploration of exotic inductors and inductor winding geometries, among them the Rodin coil, the Powell Abha coil, Matthews coils and Hendershot coils. Many of these are toroidal, or doughnut shaped, and carry several separate windings on a single core.
In his own description of the work, these explorations in the geometry of inductors are treated as elaborations of vortex mathematics ideas: the winding pattern of the coil is taken to be the significant variable, and different toroidal geometries are compared empirically in pulse motor, generator and charging circuits. He has also built and tested Starship coils and conical coils in the same context.
His work has been discussed alongside that of Randy Powell, another proponent of vortex-based mathematics and the Abha coil.