Thanks Gyula! I'm looking forward to fully exploring that thread - appreciate the reference!
Hehe - ok, I have a confession - a friend and I asked Paul if we could go see his stuff right after last year's convention, and he said yes! He spent 2 days with us, never asked for a thing, and wouldn't even let us buy him lunch! (in fact, he bought lunch for us!!!) I have nothing but awesome to say about Paul Babcock - a truly giving, amazing individual. When I asked if I could share all that he shared with me, he said "Knock yourself out!", so I am... lol
So most of the stuff I'm experimenting with is his ideas, and I'd like to give him full credit right here.
I searched for his patent stuff, and I cannot find it anywhere. Can you link your source? I think I understand what you're mentioning about only one pole facing out - you're saying that it is identical to my drawing, minus one of the permanent magnets, correct? That's an interesting idea! Well worth experimenting with the waveform of this.
I understood from Paul that he uses the full horseshoe config - 2 neos and an iron core - but I could have mistaken him. The patent application may be misleading too. Unfortunately, it seems like no matter how many pictures you take of something, there is always more that could have been taken to clarify more.
I need to review it again, but I'm pretty sure Paul says in his presentation that he fires the coils one way, then the other. I'm not sure if you would need to do that with the one-neo horseshoe config you mention. Have you done any testing to confirm that you can fire the same polarity both on approach, and retreat?
Here's another pic - you can actually see one magnet marked N for North.
As an afterthought here, in the picture of Paul's motor in post #14, you can clearly see magnets on our side of the yellow arm, and the red arm. Logically thinking, if we are observing the retreating side of the yellow arm, then we are observing the advancing side of the red arm. Since we can see magnets on both the advancing and retreating sides, I would say it's almost certain that the one-pole configuration is not one that Paul used on this particular motor...
Thanks for the input!
Daniel
Hehe - ok, I have a confession - a friend and I asked Paul if we could go see his stuff right after last year's convention, and he said yes! He spent 2 days with us, never asked for a thing, and wouldn't even let us buy him lunch! (in fact, he bought lunch for us!!!) I have nothing but awesome to say about Paul Babcock - a truly giving, amazing individual. When I asked if I could share all that he shared with me, he said "Knock yourself out!", so I am... lol
So most of the stuff I'm experimenting with is his ideas, and I'd like to give him full credit right here.
I searched for his patent stuff, and I cannot find it anywhere. Can you link your source? I think I understand what you're mentioning about only one pole facing out - you're saying that it is identical to my drawing, minus one of the permanent magnets, correct? That's an interesting idea! Well worth experimenting with the waveform of this.
I understood from Paul that he uses the full horseshoe config - 2 neos and an iron core - but I could have mistaken him. The patent application may be misleading too. Unfortunately, it seems like no matter how many pictures you take of something, there is always more that could have been taken to clarify more.
I need to review it again, but I'm pretty sure Paul says in his presentation that he fires the coils one way, then the other. I'm not sure if you would need to do that with the one-neo horseshoe config you mention. Have you done any testing to confirm that you can fire the same polarity both on approach, and retreat?
Here's another pic - you can actually see one magnet marked N for North.
As an afterthought here, in the picture of Paul's motor in post #14, you can clearly see magnets on our side of the yellow arm, and the red arm. Logically thinking, if we are observing the retreating side of the yellow arm, then we are observing the advancing side of the red arm. Since we can see magnets on both the advancing and retreating sides, I would say it's almost certain that the one-pole configuration is not one that Paul used on this particular motor...
Thanks for the input!
Daniel
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