Brushless Homopolar N-Machine Idea ...

[jadaro2600]

Paranoid?  me? ...er?  you're only asking that to set a trap, and use the answer against me later, but I'm not falling for your trick question.

Hey, what would happen if microamp HV was introduced to a spining Faraday Disc, via Wimshurst Machine, or other device, tipping hat to Diode along the way, would the output of the Faraday Disc then have a higher voltage, while retaining it's high amp boasting rights?
Thus allowing more efficient brush use?

It works with cocktails.

HV would just short out, you would need something to generate the HV and the current. and fool the outside circuit into thinking it's from the same source.  This would make the device more viable of course, but i don't think fooling the outside circuit would be easy.

[Foggy-Notion]

Maybe I can send Low Volt High Amps from Faraday Disc to giant Joule Thief.
Which would in theory give me spikes of High Voltage, whilest maintaining high amps.
A Great Dane works the same as a Chiuaua.

[CompuTutor]

Paranoid?  me? ...er?  you're only asking that to set a trap, and use the answer against me later, but I'm not falling for your trick question.

Heheh, that translates to a yes BTW ...



Anyway, I think your missing the point
of why I started this thread for all to contribute.

It wasn't to invent ways to put volts/amps IN,
it was a way to get current OUT without excessive loss
due to brushes, belts, bearings, carbon rollors, etc...

We're not trying to make a motor here,
we are trying to properly harness a generator.

Thanks for staying on topic. 

[Foggy-Notion]

oh, ok well the best way I heard for extracting the most current
was to run the disc through a pool of mercury, but as I said that
was a hand cranked model, over 1oo years ago, and the mercury
is (I assume) considered a "brush"?  But I will think on this.

[phoneboy]

Since this is for half baked ideas, figured I throw this one out.  Apologize ahead as I'm good with mechanical not so with electrical, but what if we mimicked the way lightning formed to help with the voltage problem (see pic). If this could work then we could also try parallel electrets integrated into the generator (would be easy to create, put the assembly into a glass disc as wide as the outer diameter and just rotate the assembly with nothing connected until the eddy currents heat the discs up enough to melt the dielectric, stop rotation, connect high voltage leads, wrap in fiberglass to slow cooling, short out, and wait)