STEORN DEMO LIVE & STREAM in Dublin, December 15th, 10 AM

[Jimboot]

Is anyone tweeting their progress? anyway when my metglass arrives I'll be tweeting mine @jimboot

[PaulLowrance]

- & I have a copy on my desktop

Wow, Jimboot, I can't thank you enough. Thank you so much! I love the graphics screen shot. That's the best way to do it. I owe you one. 

Regards,
Paul

[PaulLowrance]

@Paul,

Maybe you could try something for me on your tiny Orbo since you have a good setup to see this effect.
The way your coil is wound (one pass winding) should cause a field on either side of the toroid about the same as one loop of wire.
Is there any difference in RPM simply by changing the current direction in the coil?

Well, I just attempted to do it, but the darn tiny orbo keeps on going. I had to stop it at 5000 rpms in fear that the glued magnets will shoot off, lol. The rpm just kept going and going.

When the bcap0650 voltage gets low enough, then maybe it will reach a maximum rpm, and I'll try it then.

[k4zep]

Ben,

You might enjoy this one. I replaced the power supply with my BCAP0650 (650 farads), charged at 0.465 volts, and the scope current shot was still flat as a pancake!     Now that's not to contradict what Sean said because I am not measuring for excess energy, yet. Also, Sean was talking about a capacitor and never mentioned a supercapacitor.

btw, the BCAP0650 holds roughly the same energy as a 650mAh battery.

I assume it ran at that voltage???  Like I said, now we have two folk with square waves with a cap!!!  Like you say, no OU yet but
we are sniffing at the door.

Ben

[PaulLowrance]

Another observation note taken from yesterdays horsing around: When the toroid was moved closer to the magnets, the torque increased significantly, but there was no observed change in the coils current or voltage. The core is relatively far away from the magnets in the videos shown so far.

Also, slanting the toroid had significant positive effect where the rpms increased a lot, but that was when I was holding the core by hand. So far I have not tried slanting the core after the core was mounted.

Lots of things to learn. Steorn has, what, ~ 7 years head start on us?