Homopolar Generators (N-Machine) by Bruce de Palma

[Magluvin]

What got me started on this was the paradox.  A while back actually is when I started pondering it, as I have posted here before.

Was looking at homopolar motors on YT, the ones with AA batt with magnet and spinning copper wire.

One of the vids, the guy had a small mag on the top of the batt and a larger disk on the bottom, and the batt/mags hung magnetically from the top magnet so the batt/mag could spin freely, and the bottom mag was contacted on the outer edge of the mag. The whole battery/mags assy was spinning. So I decided to test magnets without the battery mass attached.

I have some roller pin bearings of different sizes from car axle and transmission bearings, bunches of sizes, and used 2 small ones to make an axis in which to have a disk mag(3/4x1/8 disk) be able to spin. Centered the 2 pin bearings on the mag, both sides, and applied a bit of super glue to hold in place along with the mag holding them.  Made a simple base and it spins ok. When I applied power to a pin and the outer mag edge, it spins. So, a simple traditional homopolar with the mag playing the magnet and disk all in one.  lol, this is where I went up to using the 12v batt and it spun fast, but the outer edge of the mag got burned up pretty fast. At least it worked.  And you can make the connection to either pin axle and it would spin the same direction. So both could be used as electrical contacts to make better connections. Would be nice to have a large thin disk mag with a hole in the middle to make an actual ball bearing axle. Larger diameter should have more torque.


The contact areas between the mag and pins had blackened around the edges under the clear super glue after running as the contact wasnt perfect for high currents there. But again, it worked and I moved on to the previous post tests, which were more defining of what actions occured and possibilities of what causes the actions.

The new tests I have devised from these previous tests will take this to the next level. What Im looking for at the moment is not power generation possibilities, yet, but going the motor route to get a grip on what is going on with different configurations other than the traditional disk setups.

Mags

[broli]

I would find it very strange if your first rendering actually caused the magnet to rotate. This would mean an instant violation of many things. Can you show the experiment?

[Magluvin]

I would find it very strange if your first rendering actually caused the magnet to rotate. This would mean an instant violation of many things. Can you show the experiment?

Hey Broli

I have all day tomorrow to do some more experiments and Ill do a vid or 2.

Not sure if it violates anything. But I find it strange also.

One new test i plan is to have the magnet at the bottom of a pendulum swing arm, with twisted pair wires running down the arm from the upper pivot point. Would be odd and strange if the pendulum arm moves. 

Mags

[ramset]

Mags
thanks for sharing these most intriguing thoughts and very simple observations/experiments...
I like your images too..


see you next year ! 


thx
Chet

[Magluvin]

Happy new year Chet, and all.   

Mags