My Public Apology to Mr. Ed Wingate and the List

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Original poster: <dhmccauley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

In June of 2005, there was a brief discussion 
into the operation of the Marinov, or 
ball-bearing motor which was titled, ?Single 
Shaft Motor ? Ed Wingate??  For those who do not 
remember this thread, it began with me asking 
what was the official name for these motors.  As 
I knew Mr. Wingate had built one (motor), I added 
his name to the thread title, so as to get his 
attention when he browsed through his daily TCML 
posts.  My original question to the name of these 
single-shaft motors was promptly answered, and 
the thread entered into a brief discussion into 
whether the ball-bearing motor operated via 
either thermal or electromagnetic action.  Ed 
Wingate?s stance on this question was that the 
Marinov motor operated via electromagnetic 
action.  However, since I read several papers on 
the Marinov motor which stated it worked via 
thermal effects, including one published by Dr. 
Stefan Marinov himself, I responded with the 
following statement which contradicted Mr. Wingate?s thoughts on the issue:

? . . . Although I highly respect Ed Wingate?s 
personal thoughts, especially as Ed is one of the 
most experienced high voltage / electrical 
experimenters I know, I cannot dismiss the 
results of all these technical papers and studies 
as being incorrect.?  (Thread Date:  07 June 2005)

Now although I personally do not see anything in 
this statement or in the entire thread that would 
be interpreted as offensive, Mr. Wingate has 
expressed great concern over this particular 
statement in recent emails, and has informed me 
that he views this statement as ?taking a shot? at him personally.

A few weeks ago, Mr. Wingate had asked me to 
bring up those papers on the thermal theory to 
the Teslathon this year.  I replied to Mr. 
Wingate in an email stating that I had since 
found several IEEE papers regarding the 
electromagnetic action of the ball-bearing motor, 
and that I no longer agreed with the thermal 
action theory of the device.  Mr. Wingate then 
asked me why I hadn?t responded to the list 
regarding this matter as he felt it was important 
to do so.  Therefore, I would like to publicly 
declare that I was wrong with my original 
assessment of the operation of the Marinov motor 
and that Mr. Wingate?s statement regarding the 
action of the Marinov as being electromagnetic 
was indeed correct, as was indicated in the three 
IEEE papers which I had sent to Mr. Wingate via 
email, and had also posted last week on this list.

Finally, enlight of these recent discussions, I 
made a tough decision to decline my invitation to 
the 2006 RATCB Teslathon for this year.  Although 
I look forward to this event more than any other 
during the entire year, I would feel 
uncomfortable attending knowing that Mr. Wingate 
felt i personally attacked him on the 
list.  However, regardless, I still hold a deep 
respect for Mr. Wingate and would still hope that 
I would be invited to his teslathon in future 
years.  And although I had never intended my 
statement to be offensive or as a personal attack 
against Mr. Wingate in any way, I would like to 
publicly offer my apology to both Mr. Wingate, 
and the list, for the statements I had made in 
the above mentioned thread.  I was clearly wrong 
in my original assessment into the operation of 
the Marinov motor and it was unfair of me to 
disagree with the statements Mr. Wingate had made 
regarding the operation of the Marinov motor.

Respectifully yours,

Daniel McCauley