Homopolar Generators (N-Machine) by Bruce de Palma

[Foggy-Notion]

What "Counter Torque"? ha ha ha,
I'll take Tesla's word over yours &
that of the power co. media folks.

As for Neo mags, they conduct electricity,
they are used for homopolar motors like what
you see when someone puts a magnet on a battery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkU_JmtH3PU

The motor works because the neo magnet conducts electricity.
I don't see them making homopolar motors with Ferrite Mags,
Because it wont work, ferrite magnets don't conduct electricity.

The "Counter Torque" effect is what makes a homopolar 'motor' go.
That is why Farrite Magnets are used for homopolar 'generators',
Because they have no motor effect, no "counter torque"

Non-conductive coating may indeed stop outside conductivity but I'm
just going to try both and see which is best, how's that?

And that Sir, is my opinion.

[gravityblock]

The motor works because the neo magnet conducts electricity.
I don't see them making homopolar motors with Ferrite Mags,
Because it wont work, ferrite magnets don't conduct electricity.

Gluing a conductive disc to a ferrite magnet is the same as having a conductive coating on a neo magnet.  The conductive coating on the neo magnet replaces the copper disc that could be attached and glued to a ferrite magnet.  If you glued a copper disc to the ferrite magnet, then you could make a homopolar motor with a ferrite magnet.  Why is this so hard for you to understand?  Lol

homopolar motor made from a non-conductive magnet, http://www.andrijar.com/homavi/motor.wmv

Here's additional information on the video, http://www.andrijar.com/homavi/index.html

The "Counter Torque" effect is what makes a homopolar 'motor' go.
That is why Farrite Magnets are used for homopolar 'generators',
Because they have no motor effect, no "counter torque"

A conductive coating on a magnet or a copper disc glued to a magnet will have the same results.  Let's say you put a conductive coating on a ferrite magnet.  Now, how will this conductive ferrite magnet have a different result if there was no conductive coating but instead had a copper disc glued to it?  The results will be the same.  The results will be a counter torque.

In a homopolar generator with a ferrite magnet and a copper disc glued together, it will have the same counter torque as a neo magnet with a conductive coating glued to it.  It doesn't matter if the copper disc and magnet are physically glued together or if they're not physically glued together, they will both be rotating together on the same axle and will have the same results if they're glued together or not.  The magnet, disc, and axle is one piece when they're all rotating together.  This will have the same results as if the disc and magnet were physically glued together or not.   

I can't believe you're not grasping this simple concept, unbelievable.


GB

[PaulLowrance]

Thanks for the link.   Good stuff.    Indeed, building it will provide some answers, and generate more questions.  Talking about it will only further necessitate building it to provide some answers.

Turtle, building it

Hi Turtle,

I can hardly wait till you finish! How is going, and how much further to go?

BTW, do you know of a place to get good low prices on good NdFeB magnets?

[keithturtle]

Progress.  See pic. 3/4" sheet phenolic scrap.

Magnets

http://www.kjmagnetics.com/categories.asp?gclid=CKXEprqZnZ8CFQMNDQodO3nXcg

http://www.magnet4less.com/

Turtle

[CompuTutor]

I'm annoyed,
I wanted to post,
but the friggin pages are a mile wide
on all of my OS's (And IE 6,7,8 +FireFox) I have
because of that pic above being to big I guess...

Or I can scroll left to right for every friggin sentence...

Why does Simple Machine's forum engine do that.
Damn, you think it would crop it to fit...

SUCKS !

Anyway... Keith, The whole row of smaller water jets
adding up to one bigger homogeneous jet has me waiting.
I want to see if an accumulative structure like this works.

When done, and you have a workable setup completed.
I hope you will (Still) have room to entertain one idea.

A ferrous disc on the face of all those magnets
perhaps to disperse the magnetic poles evenly?
I want to see if an increase occurs
from the combines homogeneous accumulation of mag's



Hey Foggy, calm down dude