Roll on the 20th June

[Xaverius]

Thats great because I have shown a electromagnetic motor that pulses only once not 6 times so show me the way you get the power back from just one pulse so I can call mine OU

My concept does not involve getting the power back, I assume you are referring to Counter-EMF?  Most recovery circuits for inductors that use capacitors to capture back emf generate a pitiful amount of electricity.  I was referring to gravity driving the wheel, which would then drive a conventional generator, a portion of the generated power would drive the electromagnet and the rest of the generated power would drive the load.  The idea is to optimize the electromagnet(there are various ways) so that a relatively small amount of current supplied by a relatively small amount of voltage produces a relatively large magnetic force.

[exxcomm0n]

@ Rast

Why should I comment on what I find not to be extraordinary?



Wow, I can see that it's alum. now,but the subtle blur of the pic (you can really see it @ the pillow bearing) made it look a bit translucent with sparkly streamers.

You've built a structure or 2 by the look of your 5 point corners and interior bracing.

All very clean cuts too.

You got'em chop saw?



Like I said, nice build!

On the vid camera front........

I've found that a mini-DVD recorder is cool because it makes nice crisp vid that compresses well.
You film to the DVD, finalize the disc (reversible IF you use DVD-RW discs!) pop it into a DVD drive, copy it to your hard drive, and then comes the tricky part.

You have to compress it to make a huge .vob file a smaller (but still with good definition and audio) .avi file to make it easy to upload and within the Tube 100mb/10 min. restriction (the time part you can sometimes push, the size part you can't).

I use a freeware program called avidemux (you can get it from sourceforge.net for windows and linux) to do it this way:

1.) Open the .vob file from the hard drive (after you've copied it there from the DVD), when it asks if you want to index it, click yes
2.) Edit the .vob file to cut out unwanted video time (this can save both you and the viewer. i don't use it much it seems. ) by choosing a start point (A marker) and an end point (B marker) and then going to edit in the menu bar and chose delete. (This will not delete content from the .vob file IF you don't click save with audio and video set to copy.)
3.) Once you are satisfied with your edits, in the left hand area of the program window choose your favorite destination video format (I like .avi), go to the video area and change "copy" in the drop down menu to "Xvid4(avi)"
4.) Once you have done that, click the now available "filters" button (you have to have a .vob loaded), click on the "Transform" tab in the new window that pops up, and then double click where it says "Mplayer resize". Change the width to 320 and the height to 240, then click "ok". Close the available filters window.
5.) In the Audio area change "copy" to "mp3(lame)"
6.) Go to File in the menu bar and hover over "save >", which will then open a new menu for you to click on video.
7.)  It will ask you what to name it (don't forget to add ".avi" to the end of the file name you give it) and where you want to save it to.

Seems like a lot of fancy dancing, but after you do it a couple of times and if you have a pretty quick PC with a decent amount of RAM it's pretty simple and fast.

During the encoding process, try to just walk away from your PC and do something else until it's done because stressing the PC while it's encoding can lead to video artifacts you don't want.

Fun, eh?



EDIT

You can also make multiple smaller vids out of a large .vob with lots of content by setting the A & B markers for that part only and then going to File in the menubar and save>video.

[therealrasta]

@EX

Yeah I have built a few things in the past.. And I used a old school hand powered miter saw and small miter board and sea clamps.

[The Eskimo Quinn]

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[therealrasta]

how many revolutions rusty?

uuummm gee i can't count em myself, and what'll piss you off the most

this isn't mine

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_wdtYMQ1dik&feature=related

this came out a few days afterwards pretty damm good job i would say

you not see nothin like...................

thank you thank you very much I'm here all week

That vid is actually 3 videos clipped together and it is a fake.. The guy that made it does video editing as a student or profession. The reason I know this.. The guy admitted to it.  http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,5238.0.html