Solid State Orbo System

[rave154]

Mag,

just a couple of ideas to try in terms of numbers /  positions/ orientations

1 NEO, flat side against toroid, 1) N pole down, 2) S pole down

1 NEO, edge against toroid, 1) N pole to left, 2) S pole to left, 3) N pole pointing UP, 4) N Pole pointing down

2 NEO's side by side, flat side down, 1 neo N side down, other NEO S pole down, neo's touching edge to edg

2 NEO's.. both flat down, both N pole down ( will have to have them spaced )

2 NEO's as above but S pole down

im sure you can come up with more as you seem very intuitive and full of ideas,

im anxiously waiting for some toroids to arrive in the post, hopefully if ive done my maths properly they will enable me to create what you have to a fairly close tolerence.

Great work so far MAG

[rave154]

1 more idea for you MAG,

[Magluvin]

Hey Rave
I have playe with quite a bit of configurations with the mags.  The biasing or extra mags are a weird bunch. Like in the vid, I had 2 rows, but with 3 rows, the N n S give more positive results when opposite the other 2. Only thing I can figure is the 2 alone are too strong and the 3rd balances it out. But if I have just the 2 rows and remove 1 from each, it is less output. Its just silly like that.
If you are replicating, the inner bead core is a standard fom a computer monitor cable or other similar. The outside cores when put together equal the length of the inner bead, and there should be about a 1/8 in spacing for wire so the inner wrapped core fits in the larger ones it is just snug with a bit of black tape on the inner core.
Both windings are 26ga. The pickup is 150 turns, 3 layers under the toroidal wrap. The toroidal windings are just enough to cver the inside hole of the inner bead 1 layer, so the 1/4 in mags will fit without chafing the wire. The mags are not tight at all in there.  The mags are 1/4 x 1/8 of unknown strength gotten from Ace Hardware in the magnet section and you get 10 for 5 bucks. Great for local and quick. 

I am messing around with the timing vs duty cycle right now. I had left a lil bag of goodies at the shop that I thought I had brought home. It had a bunch of nice lil caps and variable res and some other stuff I need. Im about to run up there and get them. Im on a mission dude!  =]

Thanks for all the support. My circuit so far is a take off of yours, but I use one pot for freq then another with the diodes off of the ends to do the pulse width, this way the freq stays the same as I adjust the duty. Well close to the same. ;]

Mags

[Magluvin]

Also, a lil tool that helps greatly to do the toroid windings that I made. It takes a bit of wire to wrap and it has to be off of the spool to thread it and it gets tangled. So this helps, time wise also, big time.

Mags

[Magluvin]

Got my circuit board better set up. And I wrapped a new core with 22ga, 60 turns 2 layers pickup coil and did the toroid winding in the same wire with as many turns as it took to fill the inside of the bead 1 layer so the 1/4 mags fit.
It works well and have better current output.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4DXEPcrChk

Mags