Circuit setups for pulse motors

[tak22]

@bakercool

here's a good looking coil winder that was pointed out by MrSpates today in the earth battery thread ..

For those of you who wind coils, heres a link to a neat build it yourself coil winder made from an old microwave motor. Its strong cheap and easy to build and wood cones can be substituted for the metal fins.

http://solomonsmusic.net/coil_winder.html

tak

[bakercool]

Hi all!  thanks for the help!

I made my big leap into the process last night.  After my post I ordered 2 - 1" x 12" x 12" acrylic discs, 3000' of 24 gauge wire, 10 1/2 ID bearings, and 10 more 3/4" x 3/4" N42 Magnets. 

I still have yet to find a timing/firing mechanism, and potentiometer.  I tried today, but the kids kept me pretty busy.  For my initial tests, I will be using an input of 12v/125amp power supply, but need to reduce it to 50ma-5amps @12v.  ARHH!  I wish I wasn't so stupid.   
Do you think the transistors, diodes, etc you guys are using would work for the volts/amps I mentioned?

@Jason:  I got some cubscout things coming up, & need to finish my 59' Edsel.  Between those events I will be testing out some more coil theories.  I think I got a great start, but want confirmation before I jump the gun.  I look forward to you giving me a helping hand!!!! 

@Tak:  I use a Drill now and use my hand to guide the wire.  I just finished searching for "Coil Jig" and saw a lot of stuff, but nothing that will go faster or higher quality than my drill/hand.  I guess I have more of a machine in mind...  I do stabilize the wire, and put tension on it before I feed it onto the coil tho.      Thanks again for your help!

@ Ren:  I plan on running 8 coils (repulsion) for one rotor, and am already looking into running 2 rotors (16 coils).  I know what you mean about worrying about the timing.  I'm sure there is a solution though.  I looked online to try to understand a multimeter (I swear, I'm not completely stupid!  ), then I went and tested the theory about the picture a couple posts ago.  I found one that one theory was wrong.  I received energy constantly (one theory I had was it would act like an alternator, only picking up on the pulse in/out).  Instead @ 6v/6amp I was getting 50ma constant.  Again, I still have a hard time reading it....  I hope that is good news.....
Also, I believe that Tesla already proved that if you used a higher gauge for your primary, then a smaller gauge for you secondary (pickup) you would increase voltage.  I'm not looking to increase voltage through his theory, more of collecting the energy that is dissipating from the coil the most efficient way I can find.  I hope that made sense.....

@ All:  I believe your all making the Bendini right now, and while I was searching I found this.  It looked pretty cool, so I posted it for your review.
http://www.syscoil.org/medias/pdf/documents/my_replication_of_windows_bendini.pdf

I hope this page gives some inspiration, and appreciate all the help you guys give!

Corey

[bakercool]

@Ren:
Real quick, I think I have a much better setup than the picture I posted on the last page.  Hope you didn't waste any wire on testing it yet...  I'll post when I know more about some more theories on it... 

Corey

[Ren]

my wire is never wasted corey. I still have the first coil I wrapped in use. 

Corey, you need to grasp the concept of amp draw from your circuits. Firstly learn how to measure amps on your meter. Next wire up a 12v  light globe or small eletric motor and flow the current through your meter to determine how much current it reads. Most meters read current on an amp setting of 10 amps. This means anything under 1.0 is in milliamps. 0.25 would be 250 milliamps. Your coils, circuit and triggering frequency will all effect the amount of amp draw.

Then make a simple switch (mechanical switch that you can just push, a micro switch works well) and hook it up so your coil is off until the switch is depressed. Repel or attract magnets glued to a wheel depending on your configuration.You can learn alot from this alone.

[bakercool]

Thanks Ren!  I'll give that a shot...