Spinning magnets with radio waves.

[TinselKoala]

Everyone can see me spinning a 2" Neo Sphere self looped in my video.

I'm sorry, I must have missed that, can you please link it again? By "self looped", you mean, of course, that you can disconnect it from all external power sources and it keeps running indefinitely until you turn it off. Right?

You guys are having so much fun with your magnet spinners that I decided to make one. I didn't have a sphere magnet so I used a little NdB disk and made a wire support for it and suspended it over a coil of magnet wire. It spins fine, even on a very low output voltage from my Interstate F43 function generator, and I can keep it in synch until around 100 Hz (6000 RPM, confirmed stroboscopically). With better balancing I'm pretty sure I can get it going even faster.

[synchro1]

@Tinselkoala,

                      You're already spinning on sine waves. Beautiful! You're out in front with the experiment. Did you run it up by pulse and transition to sine wave? You can charge a battery with a SB pancake output coil "Lenz Free". Why this works is not clearly understood by anyone I've heard from. All we know is that it works. You're poised for a major breakthrough!  I'm willing to transport my "Supersonic" quadfilar spiral setup to your lab. Probably save us both some time and money.
                     
                        I self looped to run battery. The battery's necessary for some unknown reason. I tried to run it shorted and failed. Set a low voltage wraped SB pancake output coil up in close proximity to the spinner. Wire a bridge rectifier on and run the output into a charge battery and calculate a COP1 You already broke retrod's speed record. Looking forward to a new video. You'll be charging free OU with us soon. Congratulations!

[gauschor]

Wow, very interesting approach to drive motors

[TinselKoala]

I wouldn't get all excited yet   

.... I'm just stumbling along with a very crude apparatus, but it's fun to play with. Here's about how far I've gotten so far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Xrwt-50AA

[Farmhand]

I've got a couple of permanent magnet AC motors, they come from a washing machine water pump. And no they are not shaded pole motors, they have permanent magnets in them but the rotor is enclosed and I haven't cut one open yet. they have a two pole drive coil setup on a shaped "U" core. The coils have a lot of turns though they are for 240 volt AC.

Struck me as odd when I first found them.

Cheers