Because there is no substantive breakthrough and progress, it seems many people have chosen to forgo.
    This thread is close to death.

Hi All,

Each step in developing this motor/gen is laborious and time consuming and there are no short cuts.  Every time I take a short cut,
I end up throwing away some coils.  I actually need to start over again as mechanical rigidity is of paramount importance in the
rotor and coil assemblies!  Half the problem is figuring out how demonstrate what you are assuming is happening and then finding out
you are wrong.  I laughed the first time I read Romero said he had made thousands of adjustments, I am not laughing any more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrj4Lq9I_6c

This race is not for the rabbits!!!!!

Ben K4ZEP

Quote from: aircore on June 15, 2011, 04:47:00 PM
    Because there is no substantive breakthrough and progress, it seems many people have chosen to forgo.
    This thread is close to death.

its not over yet

I have a lot more work to do.

this my next evolution of this work.

note how each capacitor sits on top of the other one and the voltage is added up one cap at a time.

what will happen when we get to all 9 coils?

the important thing is there is no load on the motor. the motor run faster with every new stage. it going to take me a while to get a few more constructed

Will C1 draw current from the battery and C2 as well through C1?

Quote from: aircore on June 15, 2011, 04:47:00 PM
    Because there is no substantive breakthrough and progress, it seems many people have chosen to forgo.
    This thread is close to death.

WRONG.  People have a life, it's summer, and a lot of people are still rounding up parts or trying many options in tuning between their jobs and other responsibilities.  There's an ebb and flow to activity with this.  Come back in a few weeks or so when it's over 300 pages. 

Many years ago I collected a lot of things for various alternate energy projects but had little to no time to do them.  I came across a spool of thin metal tape that may be Mu metal or even Metglas which are both high permeability materials.  I'd like to use this in cores for this project but I cannot remember what this spool of metal is as it's probably been 10 to 15 years ago I got it.  It's about 1" wide and very thin wound onto a regular wire type spool. 

Can any one think of a way to test this to verify it's Mu metal or something like this?  It looks similar to Mu metal I've seen on a spool in a picture.  It is has a luster similar to the Mu metal from hard drives I've got.  A magnet sticks to it.  It does not seem to retain magnetism like steel would. 

   It would be great for rolling up into a core for this project but I'd like to know what it is ahead of time if possible.  Any suggestions? 
Edit: now I've been told I got this at a yard sale many years ago and suspected then it was mu metal.  Here is a picture: