My Open-Sourced OU Project Using Ferrofluid (PICS)

[Dondeal]

This is my first post. I hope it is a valuable one. I'm not an expert in physics, science, hydropower, fine woodworking, or electronics.

I'm going to release my latest garage project. It is officially OPEN-SOURCE and in the PUBLIC-DOMAIN. I've also posted in other places. I'm hoping the OU community can get together and expand on it if it has potential.

FIRST: Go and watch videos about ferrofluid (ferromagnetic fluid) and pulse motors if you have no clue what they are. Ferrofluid - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ferrofluid&aq=f . Pulse Motor - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pulse+motor&aq=f

Please understand that some people tend to think that they can add an endless amount of coils around a spinning pulse motor to generate additional power, and feed it back into the pulse motor. Well, these people don't respect Lenz's Law. Then, there's the group of people that believe they can make the pulse motor do work by attaching something directly to it. Well, this causes the motor to work harder, too. So I've been wondering how do you make a pulse motor do work by not attaching something directly to it or getting Lenz's Law involved, which makes my pulse motor work harder? Then, I became fascinated with ferrofluid and, naturally, I tried to add this into a pulse motor setup.

GOAL: To move ferrofluid in a closed-loop using a pulse motor, and turn the kinetic energy of the ferrofluid that re-enters the reservoir into electricity(think hydropower). A pelton turbine, connected to a generator, will be placed inside the reservoir and generate power. This generated power will be fed back into the motor that turns the shaft that spins the ferrofluid.

MORE DETAILS:
We're going to get a shaft to efficiently spin via a pulse motor and dedicate one rotor to spinning the shaft. I've opted to use a basic reed switch and an electromagnet for now. However, hall effect switches with transistors, bedini, and other forms of pulse motors can be used to spin the shaft the most efficient way possible, as well.

INITIAL TEST:
I wanted to verify if a rotor with embedded N52 magnets, with the help of capillary action, was capable of bringing the ferrofluid over the loop and back into the reservoir. This was successful and opens the door to increasing the reservoir size and adding the pelton turbine.

Inside The Box: Is the main 5" rotor that turns the shaft. The rotor has 4 embedded N35 1/2" dia. x 1/2" len. magnets. Above it is a heavy duty reed switch. Below it is  6" x 1/2" dia. ferrite rod wrapped in 950 turns of 26 guage magnet wire. All connected to a rechargeable 12v battery, that only acts as a starter for now. At least, until the pelton turbine is putting out power.

Outside The Box: Is the second 5" rotor. The rotor has 8 embedded 1/2" dia. x 1" len. N52 magnets. The PVC tubing is wrapped around the rotor and is separated with aluminum rods.The white reservoir is a DIY PVC reservoir (obviously, filled with ferrofluid) that I made only to test the ability of the ferrofluid to go around the loop and re-enter the reservoir.

Possible Improvements:
1. Instead of 8 N52 magnets in the rotor, magnetizing the entire outer trim of the rotor to grab the maximum amount of ferrofluid.
2. And/Or a better designed rotor that not only grabs the ferrofluid from the bottom of the pvc tubing, but from the sides as well. The aluminum rods will have to be removed, and a better design to keep the tubing from touching the spinning rotor.

[ramset]

Mr. Don Deal
What happened?
I was looking forward to reading more of your posts on this?
A very cool concept ,and perhaps a link to an alternate "harvesting" method?

Chet

[Dondeal]

Mr. Don Deal
What happened?
I was looking forward to reading more of your posts on this?
A very cool concept ,and perhaps a link to an alternate "harvesting" method?

Chet

I put it back up. Feedback is great.

[ramset]

Thank You Don
There is just too much about this that has to be looked at!
And you have obviously put much thought and valuable research into this,
as well as a really cool build /Testbed!

Wellcome to the forum ,men that build and share for the benefit of all will be the ones that change this world!

Chet

[Dondeal]

More than 200 views and no one has posted anything positive or negative? Kind of rare for an overunity forum. I take it no one can find any immediate faults with the "idea" and it's probably something they have to test themselves.

Anyhow, I'm seeking feedback before I dump anymore money into the idea. The cost of quality ferrofluid by ferrotec is through the roof.