2013 Pulsed Motor Build Off Competition Announced

[TinselKoala]

This from the person who can't control his browser so he has to put hard returns every few words in his (or her) posts so that any thread is twice as long as it needs to be. Right.


Yes, I can see it was a screwup to tell what I know about the Siberian Coliu of Stefan Marinov.


Meanwhile, here is some more whacky inspiration for someone to make a pulse motor. (I think that the action of the moving part of a motor should in some way control the pulsing... I'm not sure a corona motor fed with chopped DC at some high frequency would quite satisfy me as a "pulse motor"... but maybe the Chaos Motor does, as its sparking pulsations are controlled by the position of the "rotor". Sort of.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw7hajAjv5k

[gotoluc]

Hi TK,

this video may be of interest to you or Ed Gray researchers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wzrAFAz0eQ

Luc

[MileHigh]

TK:

In my imaginary rotor design of the ion pulse motor there are indeed small magnets on the rotor to trigger the Hall sensors.  So indeed it's a pulse motor.  Gotta have that.

It would be funny if you doubled the battery voltage and therefore quadrupled the high voltage inductive discharge energy such that the "needle arrays" spat out St. Elmo's Fire!

MileHigh

P.S.:  The Chaos Motor makes me think of the intro to a famous country blues rock'n'roll song.

[TinselKoala]

Ah, Ok, I didn't get the part about the Hall sensors. Might work... but good luck using them in the high electric field environment!

Here's a photo that I believe shows something like St. Elmo's Fire on a spinning Ion Motor : this is happening at slightly reduced pressure, within a diffuse bluish cathode glow, the white anodic plasma clings to patches on the motor armature and tips.

[tinman]

Weel were into week 3 of the PMBO,and some interesting setup's are starting to come out of the darkness.
A tesla coil powered pulse motor???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGE8HAcyQ1Q