One magnet no bearing Bedini motor

[Pirate88179]

brownsville:

Good for you for not giving up.  Way to go!  Not knowing any better, I would say that the place to check the power consumption on your circuit, is to put you test leads in the circuit (series) at the point it goes to the coil.  Please don't quote me on this but, I do believe the part about the meter being "in the circuit" is correct.  It feels good once you get something spinning does it not?  Good job!

Bill

[brownsville]

Bill, It certainly does feel good. The wife was really giving me a hard time about the time and money, etc...

I took the 200 foot spool of 30 guage and since there was a portion of the core hanging below the drive coil I put the coil on top and inserted the extra core. I checked the voltage and was getting a steady 0.1 volts.

Thanks for the advice on the probe placement.

I had gotten 10 of the snake mags and have tried most of them. Each one spins up differently. I also found that the small lid is much harder to get the mag up and spinning.

BTW I am using the Lidmotor coil.

Brownsville

[jonnydavro]

@ Brownsville.Glad to hear you got it going and can join in the fun.Nice video,some strange camera angles but nice just the same.I would stay clear of glass though.
I know what you mean about the snake eggs having different spin characteristics but you want to have both a verical spinner and a good X spinner so you can do different things.
Keep us posted on your experiments as i see you have done a few interesting things already.
                                                                                                                          Regards jonnydavro

[brownsville]

@jonnydavro,

I got a second magnet to stan d up and spin. I held a lid about 3 feet away from the coil and spinning magnet and about 2 feet higher than the top of the spinning magnet. No iron core - tried a bolt but it didn't seem to make any difference. It was very unsteady (me) and it only spun in an upright position for 10 or 15 seconds but I think this is the same type of effect that Jon Depew shows in a recent video posted.

Going to make a stand and give it another try soon.

Brownsville

[jonnydavro]

@Brownsville.WOW! If you have got another one spinning as you say,you have made a  major discovery.Please can you make a video if you get it going again so we can all see how you did it.Many thanks for your continuing experiments regards jonnydavro