Homopolar Generators (N-Machine) by Bruce de Palma

[Magluvin]

Hey Grav

Picpick is a free photo editor and screen capture and can do resizing of pics. That one needs to be brought down to about 30% to not stretch the page.

Mags

[sm0ky2]

Well, like I said earlier, the foil floor is not the usual path for current to flow like a wire. There may be some push and pull for all I know. There may be possible upward push, levitation, etc.

But thinking about it more recently, the foil seems to be key.  lol, what might be interesting is if we have a panel with foil on top also. Would the mag move still? Or would that want to make the mag move in the opposite direction, negating the original effect? That may be simple to do also. Would be neat if the mag shot forward and out of the foil sandwich. The top plate could be very thin plastic to mount the foil, like a larger piece of bubble pack that products are sold in, as to not have too much weight on the mag keeping it from moving.

Ok. Gunna start working on the film test.  In your post showing the foil under but no electrical connection, Im not sure the foil would help being there or not. Might even slow things down due to lenz.

Mags

Mags,
   
      If you can understand what I was trying to convey with my crude sketch on the previous page.......

Foil is not necessary, this should do the exact same thing placing it on top of any flat conductor.
the motion is a function of the induction through the conductor and the wire,reacting against the magnet's field.

[Magluvin]

Mags,
   
      If you can understand what I was trying to convey with my crude sketch on the previous page.......

Foil is not necessary, this should do the exact same thing placing it on top of any flat conductor.
the motion is a function of the induction through the conductor and the wire,reacting against the magnet's field.

Sorry. I thought Grav posted that.

But before we have induction due to the mag moving, the mag need to move first.

Back when I was messing around with the Whipmag, TK had little aluminum spacers mounted next to the rotor. He said he used them to regulate the speed of the rotor with magnets by way of adding drag due to lenz.  I could try it with the pendulum test.

The mag film may not be a way of seeing anything. I just did a quick test with a thin strip of foil under the film and applied up to 30v 10A taps to the foil strip. The film showed no change. Gunna try anyway. Maybe we might see some altering of the magnets field.

Mags

[Magluvin]

Ok, just finishing up here. Waiting for pva to dry. Pva is used to make molds. After waxing and buffing, waxing and buffing, again and again minimum, then you spray pva over the whole waxed surface and let dry. It helps in separation of the mold and part being formed, and puts a layer between the new resin and wax so many more than 1 part can be made with the mold before the newer resins start gripping the wax and screwing up the mold surface.

Anyway, Im using a flat piece of BUBBLE PACK  backing for the top plate. I applied pva to the plastic and apply the foil. Then squeegee out the excess and wait a bit.

Then I thought about the bottom connection. Im just going to us the previous block with foil for that. Then set up the mag, hold the top foil above the mag and just let the weight of the top plate, hopefully, hold the mag in place. Just incase, the mag may move on me. Either way, Im killing 2 birds here with top and bottom foil. the mag film will just be on the opposite(top) side of the bubble pack plate. I chose that for simplicity and weight. Might not get a flying mag with 1/4in plexi weighing it down. This will be easy to try things. The plastic is .2mm, but stiff enough, especially with the foil bound to it, to do an effective test, and thin enough for me to feel comfortable with the spacing between the foil and mag film.

Mags

[Magluvin]

Ok, nothing special with what we were wondering. The only effect that I got was the mag turning a bit, but only if it was off axis with the earths poles. I did a YT vid of disc magnets set up on edge on the table and they spin to align with the earths polls with surprisingly strong force. So if the mags I have are just a bit off of earth N n S, there isnt enough pull on it to be in alignment while sitting on the foil. So when I turn up the current, the mage rotated CCW just a bit. The only way to get the mag to sit way off alignment, it has to be reverse and balanced into position. So far, the mag rotated just about as many times, CW and CCW.  And only when current was turned on. There were a few times the mag rotated from disturbing it while setting the top plate down. But if it stayed in place after setting down, adding current, around a few amps at 5v, depending on the mag, the mag tends to want to align with earth N n S more so than by the mags own strength itself.

Will see what I can think of next.  If you have disk mags, foil and a battery you can play.  Ace hardware generally carry 1/8 x 3/4 neo discs. And 1/8 x 3/8.

Put 2 together to make them wider.

Mags