One magnet no bearing Bedini motor

[jonnydavro]

Hi Jeanna.I am so glad you got it going and hope you get as much enjoyment from this simple motor as i have and still am.I look forward to see where you go with this and will be following your exploits.Regards jonny.

[jeanna]

Thanks Bill. I am glad to hear that the neon won't go on when it is running properly.

Thanks jonny.

Next is to make a proper core.
To that end, I am cutting up some welding rods. 9 cuts on one rod is about 1/3 or 1/4 filling the core. I hope my big wire cutter holds out!

After that I will exchange the coil for a "proper" one that I already made the other day before the magnets arrived.

I hope either one of these improvements will allow the cylinder to spin on the small sphere.

Here is a 45 second video.
It shows the alignment etc.
I did not raise the sound, well cuz...

Thanks again everybody who helped.

jeanna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXALKcR1ORM

[jeanna]

So, tonight I tried a heftier cylinder.
I got it to spin well and it almost spins upright... sort of like the X type dragon egg. BUT I could not get the saturn satellite to keep going. It would go for a while but eventually it would spin down.

Now, I changed to the configuration I had last night with the smaller cylinder and now the satellite spins ok.

Interesting, but I don't understand why a larger magnet would have less power to influence the satellite.

But then I checked the batteries and the charging battery is above 7v now.
Maybe this is related, and maybe not, but I am glad to see the recharge effect is working today.

It is easy to get lost in time spinning and restarting a magnet, and I just do not know how long I have been doing this tonight.

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

Jeanna:

I knew you would like this device.  It can be addicting for sure.  If you made your core removable the way I did, you might try sliding it down inside the coil a little.  Try different depths by pushing it down.  On my first one, about 1/4-1/2" down from the top really made the magnet (snake egg) spin vertical and straight.  You can set the coil on a ring so the core has room underneath where it will stick out a little. On my larger, more powerful cylinder type magnet set-up, I don't have a core at all and it spins straight up and very fast.  I used 9volts batteries too on most of my experiments.

Just some ideas.

Bill

[boku]

hi@all hi@jonny
i just want to build my first bedini
and saw ur levitating one

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7113.0;attach=37469;image

and also these:

http://www.youtube.com/v/5S0NkIjQDrg

http://www.youtube.com/v/0r7nEGrjTh4

maybe also with the starship coil..

but im a bit confused about latest shematics, can u help me with that?