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

[danmarius7]

Yep, without a Reed, energy still may come from the 9V. It's a step needed to take.
On Steorn site on webcam 1 the orbo is running like crazy with what seems to be just one AAA cell.

[powercat]

@sigmaX TK vid's, not Powercat,TK is not here.

[Zorro]

another bottle of whiskey for TK!

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[exnihiloest]

Yep, without a Reed, energy still may come from the 9V. It's a step needed to take.
On Steorn site on webcam 1 the orbo is running like crazy with what seems to be just one AAA cell.

I see it much bigger (AA, R14?).
Can someone hypothesizes why using such a high capacity battery when it is (supposedly) perpetually refueled? A button cell or a capacitor (not even a supercapacitor) should be enough.

[callanan]

Yep, without a Reed, energy still may come from the 9V. It's a step needed to take.
On Steorn site on webcam 1 the orbo is running like crazy with what seems to be just one AAA cell.

The following circuit will allow a hall and mosfet switching without the need for a reed switch or additional higher voltage battery to power the switching. Only an initial pulse from a battery greater then 4.5V to charge the capacitor and the circuit will keep the capacitor charged using the back emf from the coil/coils at a higher voltage then the coil driving battery which maybe only 1-3V.

If you also had generator coils, you could just spin the rotor by hand to initially charge the cap up over 4.5V, instead of using another battery, and once the motor starts running it will self power the switching circuit.

I have been using this circuit and it works well.

Regards,

Ossie