Opposed Piston Motor

[tropes]

I previously misunderstood your design (thought you were using the coils to pump the magnets and using those to turn your generator below).  I now understand that the coils are the *output* mechanism and what I thought was a generator is actually a motor.

BTW, in electricity, power = watts.  Are you getting more watts out than you are putting in or just saying that you're getting volts (which have little meaning until you know the amperage and consequently, the watts) out when you pass a magnet through a wire coil?

Hi Solinear
The design is really quite simple: two magnets are attracted to each other and are repelled by an excited coil between them.
This motor is a fine toy for my three grandchildren who like the name, "Sotropa Motor".
The coils wrapped around each piston were added to one of my toys to demonstrate how an electrical current is generated by moving a magnet through a coil.
The "Sotropa Motor is just a different way of building a pulse motor rather than building another Bedini or Adams or Newman which continues to be done thousands of times.
Tropes

[solinear]

Hi Solinear
The design is really quite simple: two magnets are attracted to each other and are repelled by an excited coil between them.
This motor is a fine toy for my three grandchildren who like the name, "Sotropa Motor".
The coils wrapped around each piston were added to one of my toys to demonstrate how an electrical current is generated by moving a magnet through a coil.
The "Sotropa Motor is just a different way of building a pulse motor rather than building another Bedini or Adams or Newman which continues to be done thousands of times.
Tropes

I like it, a toy.  My son would probably love it, but I'd make him be the one to build it.

How much power (watts) did it consume?

[tropes]

The single coil motor consumed .875 watts (3.5V x .25A).

[tropes]

   Google AdSense finally paying after 26000 views of my first pulse motor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjcaSCUoQg
I know, it's not the best but more than 26000 view must mean some like it.

[solinear]

You say that it consumed .875 watts.  Was there any power generation occuring or was that a calculation of (input power - output power)?