Homopolar Generators (N-Machine) by Bruce de Palma

[PaulLowrance]

For me, it's not a question of money.  I don't have the time.

Will small things work?   I have the magnets above.   I have the heavy copper .  I have the drive mechanism.  I have the machinery to make the parts.

I just need the time to put it all together.

I'll get there, slowly

Turtle, slow

Looking forward to when you start. Do you know when that might be? Also if you have some photos of the parts such as the magnet, then that would tell me if for example the magnet will work well enough.

[PaulLowrance]

Can anyone start making an N-machine soon and spend a good amount of time on it per day? I think the cost could be as low as $200 in parts.

[keithturtle]

Can anyone start making an N-machine soon and spend a good amount of time on it per day? I think the cost could be as low as $200 in parts.

Don't count on anything outa the turtlelab till the end of February.   I'll be poking around with some components here and there, testing for integrity at speed, but so many other things on now...

Is gravity a factor in this?  If so, would not a vertical shaft design with the disk in the horizontal plane be beneficient?

Turtle, slow

[keithturtle]

Looking forward to when you start. Do you know when that might be? Also if you have some photos of the parts such as the magnet, then that would tell me if for example the magnet will work well enough.

I was reviewing Strohm's patent and he referred to a unified field of the magnet, as in, one big magnet doing the deed.

Would an array of, say, 40 magnets, [1/2, 5/8, 3/4 and 1"] all with same polar orientation, serve to create the massive area  of flux in proximity of the disk, or would "all them little eddys" ruin the field?

To this end, I bought, along with the big rings, enuf smaller ones to populate the attached.  The disk [made out of Nylatron] is only about a two hour job on my knee mill, and if you add up the pull values of all 40 mags, it's in the hundreds of pounds.

I really doubt it will work, but it's only time and money.  I have some dandy 8" round slabs of 7/8" mild steel with which to make an electromagnet, as well as a 16" x 1 1/2" round monster.

I am thinking big in this whole thing

Turtle

[onthecuttingedge2005]

when has a magnet never acted as a magnet, when it reaches its curie point of course!

it doesn't matter what shape or configuration it is in.