matt - it appears to me that the perpetual motion holder must be using gravity as its source of energy - these tiny magnets that leedskalnin say are moving into the earth (i call them photons in my book) contain energy and the little battery you connected may have initiated the motion into momentum which the gravitational particles then help to maintain as the move down into the earth. i know this comment may not sound like much because there is alot to magnetics that is not currently understood. my opinion that i touch on briefly in my book is that magnetism comes from the spinning of the aether or a vortex in the aether, whereas gravity is the flow of the aether and avoidance of any vacuum in the aether.

Ed's "God particle" found.. this is a current news-related link that will probably vanish.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2013/03/14/higgs-boson-science-universe/1987039/

Anyways.. it is "called" into the magnet with the introduction of "flow" by the electro-magnets on the iron core. Inducing magnetic flow till released, then the collapsing magnetic field in the copper coils with iron center releases the circulating energy back into the "bulb" as per Ed describes..

With the "old" auto points ignition, in the sixties I was amazed to learn it was not the application of power that fired the coil, it was the dropping of it when the points opened, the capacitor "holding" the spark duration of a sufficient time to lengthen and complete the collapsing magnetic field in the coil and helping to protect the points from burning as they arced and opened.

Pyramids, I can rattle on for a hour.. they had a coating on them of plaster, insulation, had a stream underneath creating a "power storage capacitor".. power generated on this type of "semi magnetic" flow. I am currently investigating "charged water" and may build a fountain in my living room to simulate this. Lord Kelvin's thunderstorm..

Questions? Trying to work this out in my head here.

To fabricate the bar into a horse shoe? you'd use a 3" round heel and wrap the 1 1/2" square around it? (3"+1 1/2" thickness x 2) A former for a hydraulic die would then have to be real close to 6" wide to get a form that ended up at overall 6" on outside?

Core weight of 13lbs. My Machinery's handbook (weights and values) states that the square bar weighs 6.008lbs per foot, and I suppose this accounts for a core bar length of 2.16378 feet, or 25.965379 inches. (26")

Is there a reason the coil form was not Lengthened to obtain the full number of wraps? I read that the copper 14 gauge without enamel is diameter .0641 16ga is .0508.. I calculate (guess) that the enameling would add a few thousandths to the overall diameter. You can then calculate the appropriate length of aluminum core to include all the turns.

Most the transformers I have demo'ed over the years, there is a layer of "varnish" cambric tape upon the metal, sometimes shellac'ed paper, then the form'ed coil over the square bar is slid over the armature. If perhaps he did "require" aluminum? why not use a aluminum soda can for the first layer? This would give a closer magnetic level transfer to the bar. (thou the one in the video works extremely well.) If the unit is indeed used as a "tuning fork" to on oscillate at a specific frequency then the composition of the iron bar comes into play in any harmonic dampening of the direct wrap method for the copper wire?

Since the end purpose is ideally unknown? Does it work with the magnetic wheel as a generator?

A Tesla patent on wireless energy transmission, (his coil would like the ideal shape of the magnetic field almost drove me insane) trying to figure out how it worked.. it was there in drawings.. in print on how it worked.. what it was.. a tuning fork with points attached to the ends to create AC from the earth's dc plates (sub level and antennae) and the "electrician" would strike the tuning fork with a wooden mallet, once the transformer came into "harmony" the points on the tuning fork would hold the
arc level to where the transformer continued the frequency.. This was a creative way to drive the coil when at that time there was no timing circuitry or mosfets. (logic level transistors) He utilized his "earthquake" machine to set the frequency, and the 60 foot "tesla" tower in Colorado Springs to transmit the power bringing the earth's potential into his "tuning". You have to remember the air is extremely dry in Colorado Springs Co and able to conduct static discharge easier than here in the humid south. That experiment also got him out of the area when the local power plant went up in smoke. (the high voltages arc'ed and blowed out the insulation in the generator akin to high-pot testing or "thumping" the generator coils during leakage testing) You can destroy the insulation during testing if you don't act wisely.

Imagine if He, and Ed had all the modern electronics to do the things that frustrated them in their time? See how lucky you are?

Investigation into this?

A recording scope to store the wave form, then plot it out. A digital multimeter has a "sampling rate" is too slow to properly view the electrical charge stored in the PMH., I too am interested in "charge in" "charge out". Of course the number of turns on the windings will determine the voltage output, just not the stored energy released.

I have a opto22 analog System tied to a computer in my shop, if I ever get one of these PMH's fabricated here. Probably have to do some blacksmithing to forge the U-loop here, I am too cheap to hire anyone or purchase a premade one.

I noticed the Magnetic book by Ed states the coil form is 6", I come up with 112 turns long if you are perfect laying on the winding. Seems it was 13 or 14 layers to achieve the 1500 turns, with a coil depth of 3/4" (I read a lot more than I act, normally around here I re-do about everything three or four times anyways.)

I'd be interested in the Power consumption at 120vac on this coil.. you could loop a 2/0 cable around the iron bar anywhere in the loop, have one coil to spot weld with, while another cooling.. The several spot welders I have built here heat up.. this is a interesting "fix" by Using Ed's design as the power source. Add another use to the project.