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

[penno64]

Hi All,

Seasons greetings.

I too, am a total noob. I am from Sydney metro area, Australia.

I am wishing to wind 4 of the coils per Ossie's videos. In his videos, he shows winding multiple wires at once (bifilar I think). Is this necessary or should I use a single strand 0.5mm similar to Jimmy ?

Kind Regards, Penno

[callanan]

Hi All,

Please see the following video of different magnet arrangements for use on the rotor of your Steorn motor replication.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDCfUhs5hwM


Regards,

Ossie

[captainpecan]

Hi All,

Seasons greetings.

I too, am a total noob. I am from Sydney metro area, Australia.

I am wishing to wind 4 of the coils per Ossie's videos. In his videos, he shows winding multiple wires at once (bifilar I think). Is this necessary or should I use a single strand 0.5mm similar to Jimmy ?

Kind Regards, Penno

Well, to be honest that all depends on how perfect you want your coils, and how much time you want to spend doing it.  Sure you can make a perfect coil, and run 1 strand around it over 1000 times or so.  That's what I did for 1500 turns.  Now that I did it, I have seen Ossies videos.  As far as I can tell, there is no reason to not use his method.  It is much faster, and much easier.  Hooking the wires in series when done will have VIRTUALLY the same result as if you just spent hours and hours winding one strand.  Yes, the layout of the windings will be slightly different, but the magnetic field will still move the exact same directions I believe, so why not do it the easy way!  I just wish I had seen those video's a week ago.  BTW, I am not sure, but I think he used 2 spools of bifilar windings.  In other words, 4 strands at once.  So if you wanted a 1000 turn toroid, you would only physically have to wind 250 of them.

[Groundloop]

@captainpecan,

I fully agree with you. I used 16 strands and 60 turns on my new toroid motor.
I'm almost ready soldering the switch electronic and will upload a couple of
photos when done.

The rotor is from a computer fan. Two Neo magnets with North out.

Groundloop.

[ramset]

Groundloop
I thought you were gonna rest??

Thanks for all you do [an understatement]
Chet