Re-Inventing The Wheel-Part1-Clemente_Figuera-THE INFINITE ENERGY MACHINE

[Cadman]

Hey floodrod,

A tip: Your bobbin ends or separators should be as thin as possible, you want all of the pies to act as a single coil. Too thick and they act like separated coils.

These here are 1.6mm thick and all 4 coils are on one bobbin

[onepower]

floodrod
I seem to have lost all my cad former files so I built the example below. I setup my 3D printer for thin wall printing down to 1mm walls. The former picture below can be stacked one on top of the other and glued to make a form with multiple wire areas like cadman posted. I also glue them together front to front with the seam in the center to make standard bobbins. It works well because they can be printed flat on the bed with no overhangs. I would suggest a small one to two mm fillet on the print where the round area meets the tube if your wire winding tension is high.

I also included another picture of a 3D printed former you may recognize from figuera's patents. I packed the former with iron filings and a binder then glued a lid on. It works well and the core is comparable to transformer cores in it's response. Winding coils on the former was fun but no more difficult than a toroid.

AC

[floodrod]

Hmm, thanks.  It's a shame because I have almost all the thicker bobbins printed.  I got in the habit of printer thicker because too often the thin coil spacers break on me, ruining the coil.

If this device has a metal core, and we connect the next before we break the previous, will the 4mm spacing matter?  Aren't we basically moving the magnetic field of the bar (core)? 

I was planning on using 11 of these flux-moving coils, and 2 larger pickup coils on the ends (like a dumbell).  Then using my Figuera-style 22 pole commutator (11 contacts on each side)

[Cadman]

All else equal the thick bobbin ends will result in fewer At/m and less magnetic field strength.
Thin or no dividers with short section length will give more At/m, greater field strength and a smoother field movement.

[floodrod]

All else equal the thick bobbin ends will result in fewer At/m and less magnetic field strength.
Thin or no dividers with short section length will give more At/m, greater field strength and a smoother field movement.

You are most likely correct in all you said. I plan to test with the bobbins I already made, and if the results are suggestive of a positive outcome- I will remake with the specs you suggest.

These bobbins offer the advantage of being sturdy and able to be separated, which will allow me to re-use them for other experiments in the future.  Not to mention the 15+ hours already spent printing them and the ability to use my mechanical winder.

But I agree without doubt, your suggested method would be better.