Solid State Orbo System

[Magluvin]

Hey Bruce
I hope you have better luck today than me. Ill get back on it in a lil bit. My back is aching. =]

Rave
Ok I wont ask.
So what are you doing with that rodin coil?  =]

Mags break

[Magluvin]

Well, its not the circuit. I put old Orbonbon in and she works. Man, how disappointing.
Maybe the pickup need be on the outside of the toroid coil with this many turns on the toroid.
I have another core i had made before using 26ga for the toroid winding and quite a few turns on the pickup under it that I named OrboMcMuffin and it at least put out a descent output. Not like the yellow wire Orbon which is the best, and still not like the green one.

The major difference with this new one, other than the large no. of toroid turns is, the length from pole side to pole side. Its only about 1/2 in, where Orbon is over an inch at about 3/4 dia., and the new one is over an in. in dia.
the OrboMcMuffins is the same dia ans the new one but twice as long, using 2 cores together to make 1.

One more difference was the no. of pickup turns. The new one I went with 18 turns, where the yellow Orbon is 60 and the green is 150. The 150 put out more volts but less current, and the yellow was less voltage than the green but more current. So I had figured that if I went with 18 turns here, and the yellow produces up to 30v, If I got only less than 10v, but hoped for more current.  I do get 1.5 to 2.5v on the new one at and area of particular freq, but very little current. So I see it as the worst of the bunch.

So, as for the comparison in the no. of windings of the toroid, so far less is better in this bunch until I see differently.  Yellow Orbon holds the title of Bonbon extraordinaire.  I cant seem to predict things with it yet. I had very high hope for this one. Still on a learning curve.

mags

[rave154]

MAG, if you find time, could you post a pic or two of the old coils with the new one next to it, so we can guage the differences, ot include this in your next video whenever that will be.

re- Rodin coil, ive designed & built ( with help ) a circuit that is controlled by a PIC32 micro controller, basically the software ive written turns the whole thing into a programmable signal generator,  im pulsing the rodin with a series of 6 pulses..

1V, 2V, 4V, 8V, 7V, 5V ..& repeat..with control over frequency  & length of each individual pulse via the software.

i just had an idea that you could try that would spped up the process of finidng sweet spots in terms of the frequency. However it would be limited to a maximum of 20KHz.

instead of using your 555 circuit, you could use one of the freely available sound card sig gens into an opto and onto a transistor....and simply set the software to "sweep"..and observe the input/output while its sweeping thrugh the freq's.

[rave154]

MAGs,
just ahd another idea,

instead of winidng both your coils ( pickup coil & pulsed coil ) around an ACTUAL ferrite toroid core.. how about this...

get some of that soft iron /  steel wire....it would have to be coated of course, and wind the pickup coil ( the one that is wound round & round the circumference ) around a ferrite toroid....then.....REMOVE the toroid.. then...wind the pulsed coil around the pickup coil treating the pickup coil as if its the actual "core"....which it would be since its made of iron......the pickup coil would be both the coil AND the core at the same time.

[Magluvin]

Hey rave
I have to go to work but here is a pic of all items together.

I will be back this afternoon.

Mags