Damn!

I made a new coil yesterday only to find today that it is internally shorting at high voltages!
I did scrape insulation off at some points to test resistance, it seems that the single layer of insulation is not enough, or maybe it's because I did not insulate the turns from some portions of the core (the inner part is but some side bits of the E were left on and uninsulated).

On the other half I used the HV coil from transformer core I cut and split, on shorting there was no acceleration and possibly deceleration, but I don't know if I should be disappointed or happy at that result because right now the motor is isolated by a hose and while my previous MOT based HV coil setup broke through that (was 2 x 100 ohm coils, this is a single one and the wrong size for the now split core) maybe this one is not, although it is also possible that the stacked Neo's is hurting the results as it did all but kill the effect for my previous MOT setup though not the monster coil.

Sadly that's that for experimenting today, probably will give a shot at saving the shorted coil.
Too bad, tons of experiments I'd love to do.

I'm pretty sure I've fixed the coil with a bunch of tape, phew!

Insulate those cores well!

Quote from: aether22 on June 10, 2008, 02:21:32 AM

You experiment lots because you have a better work ethic, and you are not as easily discouraged  and because you likely had an edge at hands on stuff (and because you don't 'Live' in your mind, which causes analysis paralysis), and you found this effect, I did not.

I was simply not good at the psychological impact of failed experiments so I tried fewer and gave up earlier, 

Well said Aether mon, you speak for many of us!

Ron

Maybe a dumb question: what is the Pout / Pin ratio ?

Quote from: CRANKYpants on June 10, 2008, 06:40:39 AM
GOOD OBSERVATIONS - I DIDN'T GET ANYWHERE (FOR 3 YEARS) UNTIL I GOT MY HANDS DIRTY.

YEP, I WAS CRUSHED MANY TIMES - WENT TO BED DISCOURAGED AND ALWAYS WOKE UP WITH A NEW AND BETTER IDEA TO KEEP ME TRYING - THAT AND THE FACT THAT I ALSO NEEDED TO CREATE "A NEW LIFE" FOR MYSELF CAUSE I WASN'T GOING BACK TO THE OLD ONE.

SO YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DISTILL YOUR THEORY DOWN INTO SOMETHING EVERYONE CAN "SEE" IN THEIR MINDS EYE.

T

Maybe my experiments took longer to build (more expensive), or maybe there were fewer ideas to try once they had failed, or maybe I have an 'issue' with failure, but they would knock me back worse that a day day or 2.

Hopefully that is more past now, but the people who get somewhere are those that keep on trying and keep on pushing harder.  And in the things I have been able to do that again and again I have always got somewhere.   With the aether I still did not give up but eventually had a 'go slow' policy with experiments. (which was good as I did grow my understanding of the aether more and more)