One magnet no bearing Bedini motor

[jonnydavro]

Hi.I saw a video on utube recently off a Bedini motor that only used 1 magnet and found it interesting so here is my version.
It is a standard Bedini circuit with a bifilar coil and core.The coil sits upright and i place a platic lid from a coffee jar on top.For a rotor i use one off those crazy magnets which are usually sold in pairs and make a loud noise when they attract each other.I have had the motor running today on 3 depleated 1,5v batteries which gave me 4.2v and once its going you can knock it down to 2 batteries.The combined voltage off my 2 batteries was 2.6v and it will start on 2 good ones.It will use 30mA on 3 batteries and and 17mA on 2.
This motor spins really fast at this low voltage and i have also run it off my joule thief and small solar panel and i even tried it on a 12v car battery and it sounded like a jet engine so i am going to stay with low voltage for the moment.
It will charge batteries but i have no imformation for you on this yet as i have been playing with it all day and having fun,it would make a really neat toy.
Here are some pictures off it and a video. Regards jonnydavro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZitkVFG6Qj8

[powercat]

Never seen a dancing Bedini, very cool thinking

cat

[jonnydavro]

Hi, just an update.I have added a couple off pickup coils to recover some energy.I have some more coils so i will try adding them aswell.I just wanted to see if the spinning magnet would maintain it steady position in the presence off the pickup coils and it does.One other thing. Some thing i found interesting is i have quite a few off these crazy magnets and most off them have a slightly angular rotation around the vertical but i have one which spins completly upright.Out off the two,the angular rotation ones seem better for use with the pickup coils also this motor will run on a 1.5v battery at 6mA.This seems very low consumption.Does any one know off a really small solar cell that would power this?I have a 2.4 watt but that is overkill,there must be tiny ones which i could use hopefully. Anyway here is a vid off my motor with pickup's.Regards jonnydavro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glBlOTDxn44

[lostcauses10x]

now that is just fun. Great video.

[Michelinho]

Hi jonnydavro,

It reminds me of Tesla's Columbus egg more than Bedini's motor. Nicely done, thanks for sharing.

Take care,

Michel