Kapanadze Cousin - DALLY FREE ENERGY

[John.K1]

Very nice dog.    Interesting idea to use chuck like that verticaly   No problem with leading the wire?

[Dog-One]

Very nice dog.    Interesting idea to use chuck like that verticaly   No problem with leading the wire?

The goal here was to mimic a lathe without the serious price tag.  So I started with a fairly cheap Harbor Freight drill press, yanked the synchronous induction motor off and replaced it with a permanent magnet DC motor.  Then to control the speed I built a simple triac dimmer module and put a large filter capacitor aft of the bridge rectifier.  I then added a DPDT switch so I could run the motor either direction.  With this setup, I can walk the chuck speed down to 60 RPM and lay the wind pretty smooth by hand--still need a chair though to be steady.  You can't sneeze or cough while it's running.   

The expensive parts in all this were the 3-inch MT2 shanked lathe chuck and 4-inch MT3 shanked bull head.  Probably way overkill, but the whole package still comes in well under the price of a decent lathe.

I'm pretty happy with it.  It will turn Tesla secondaries and Dally coils no problem at all.  Could probably even wind grenade coils--it has plenty of torque for larger gauge wire.  I think the trick will be to have a hot glue gun heated-up sitting close at hand for when a wind is complete, so it can be stuck down before changing directions or segments.

Two items I'm still looking to solve is a wire length measurement and turns count.  I need to get this taken care of before I accidently build a self runner, otherwise I'd never be able to reproduce the exact same coil.  I'm quite certain you guys would want me to wind you a coil that is known to work.   

[John.K1]

I am thinking about length counter already for couple years . I have build one two years ago when I was building TPU. I used simple step counter and the wire went through several loops(wheel) to keep constant tension. It looked horrible but worked fine. I just need something more professional. I work in CNC shop so it would be very easy for me to make a nice piece of such device- just have no time for it   (but I have a lots of time to sit here and write on forums    )   

BTW I did the test of  two small Tesla coils right next to each other and having feeling .........not yet. I have to inspect it again tomorrow- but in any case -it looks very interesting. Possibly exactly as Romanov said and showed. Coincidentally I read two documents supporting this theory too. Need to sleep on it now

[NickZ]

  So, how long before it's for sale? One might ask...
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyeUnLHf8do

[TinselKoala]

I used a stepper motor and some threaded rod and other bits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJKvpaMuCk0

As far as wire length is concerned there are online calculators that will compute length or number of turns, given the wire diameter and the dimensions of the form, etc.