Resonating homopolar generator

[bob.rennips]

Take the high current of a homopolar generator and combine with a high voltage resonating circuit.

[Spider]

Hi All,

As I was reading up on the homopolar generator I stumbled on this post.

I was wondering, has a collector ring like the one in my picture ever been tried by anyone?
A plastic non-conductive flat ring(yellow). Put a non insulated copperwire(red) on the inside diameter, a copperwire on the outside (red). Now take strands of speakerwire without insulation and wind them arround(blue).
Passing a uniform magnetic field over the ring would generate a DC potential between the 2 red rings I think.

Greetings from Holland, Rene

[gyulasun]

Hi Rene,

Sorry but I am not sure how you mean?  the uninsulated speaker wires will act as electric shorts across the two copper rings so how could we expect voltage difference between the rings?
Or you suppose the induction just takes place in the short pieces of speaker wires?  This latter may be possible I think.

Thanks for further explanations,

Gyula

[Spider]

Hi G,

A homopolar generator or Faraday disk is a conductive disk on an axle which spins in a magnetic field. A DC potential develops between the axle and the rim of the disk which can be collected with brushes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_paradox
It appears to be overunity in theorie, because there is no back torq from the generated current on the driven axle, because of the direction the current runs.
So after reading this I tried to apply this to the tpu. Both overunity, both DC output.
So I thougth of a collector almost like a disk, many wires, short length in parallell.
If you look at the photos of the OPTU and the FTPU, this shape could well fit in the plastic black shapes SM used to build his devices. You could even use bailing wire instead of copperwire.

Give it a thougth.


Greetings Rene.

[pauldude000]

@Spider

Imagine if the disc was either super, or semisuper conductive, say copper with a layer of oxide as pointed out by Michelino to me in a different thread?

This could be interesting, and the control setup for a parallel rotating field (field parallel to the toroid, instead of perpendicular) would just do the trick.

It doesn't matter whether the disc rotates, or the magnet on a homopolar generator. (someone asked) Faraday proved this along time ago, with his original experiments using a Faraday Disc Generator.

Paul Andrulis