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Hi again, Thanks to all who have given pointers in other threads...time to start building! The main idea i am going for in this build is to have a setup with two "window" coils with a magnet for each one. between the two magnets I want to mount an aluminum "transmission" something like the sketchup picture. JB has a window machine running with a ball in it as the rotor. to turn the fan as a load he brings the aluminum closer or further from the magnets...T/F the eddie currents are a form of variable transmision with magnetism instead of gears. So i will have one window motor as a motor wich will spin and aluminum flywheel/transmission that will cause the generating coils magnet to spin. I am thinking this would allow me to change the load/generator by changing the distance between the magnets and the aluminum. If I am thinking correctly that is!
For one of the coils, just because I can change the coil easily and want to try something
, i am going to wind it using flat copper tape that is used to fix solder traces. It is 1/2 inch wide (no idea of thickness) but when i compare feet with resistance it is on par with a 23 awg wire. I have 165 feet of it wich ends up at 3.3 ohms so what i am going to do is wind it and measure resistance along the way and put a tap wire into the coil at 1-2 and 3 ohms so that I have one coil that I can pick the resistance of. The coil frame is almost right on 3"x 3" (3/16 off in one direction) so theoretically every foot should give me one full turn...so the 2 ohm coil should be only about 100 turns. So i may have an amp hog...but i am looking to see if the coil being wrapped as a tesla pancake coil with every flat turn of copper tape is exactly in line with the next turn. But like i said if that doesn't work i can just slide the magnet into a different coil frame.
I was not thinking of a timing disc when i built this so instead of putting more magnets i may try to use an optical reader and a disc with notches hopefully i can put that in there and not interfere with the magnetism. i figure using a disc like that could make timing easier because you just cut the notches where you want the on-time.
For one of the coils, just because I can change the coil easily and want to try something
, i am going to wind it using flat copper tape that is used to fix solder traces. It is 1/2 inch wide (no idea of thickness) but when i compare feet with resistance it is on par with a 23 awg wire. I have 165 feet of it wich ends up at 3.3 ohms so what i am going to do is wind it and measure resistance along the way and put a tap wire into the coil at 1-2 and 3 ohms so that I have one coil that I can pick the resistance of. The coil frame is almost right on 3"x 3" (3/16 off in one direction) so theoretically every foot should give me one full turn...so the 2 ohm coil should be only about 100 turns. So i may have an amp hog...but i am looking to see if the coil being wrapped as a tesla pancake coil with every flat turn of copper tape is exactly in line with the next turn. But like i said if that doesn't work i can just slide the magnet into a different coil frame.I was not thinking of a timing disc when i built this so instead of putting more magnets i may try to use an optical reader and a disc with notches hopefully i can put that in there and not interfere with the magnetism. i figure using a disc like that could make timing easier because you just cut the notches where you want the on-time.
. So i am going to continue and fiddle with it as a power coil and gen once my 3055s' and 2995s' get here. always a waiting game of some sort!
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