'Core Rearrangement' - 'Fin Motor' - Open Tech - OU?

[Khwartz]

Hi! Tim123, how is going your set-up? Having no more news since a while :/ cheers.

[tim123]

Hi Khwartz, thanks for asking, I hope you're well...

I decided I want to test putting a transformer inside a coil - as in 'Solid-State-Gen1.gif at top of page...

I decided that the best arrangement was to use cone-shaped coils - to provide a big working area, and a strong field.

I realised that this is like Walter Russell's cone-shaped coils. So I decided to combine experiments... I'm now planning on building 4 cone coils out of 6mm copper tubing - so I can do my experiment, and then try the double spiral of Wallace...

I'm not sure about the proportions the coils should be, I'm tending towards either the Great Pyramid shape, or perhaps a base of 1 unit to a height of Phi (1.618 - golden mean).

I've bought (I know, I should have built, but too busy...) a very nice ZVS driver:
http://www.rmcybernetics.com/shop/cyber-circuits/pulse-generators/induction-heater-circuit

But I've been getting distracted with:

a) Learning how to make wind-chimes. One tuneful set made from instructions here:
    http://arneberg.com/harmonet/threads/windchimes.html

b) Writing a sound synthesiser in PHP, generating scales & chords mathematically, and calculate (chime) tube-lengths for a given pitch. (3/4 done)

c) Building a HHO welder. (1/3 done)

d) Building a VAWT to heat the workshop. (planning stage)

[Khwartz]

See you keep busy in various domains

I know nothing about the cone-coils but could be intetesting indeed for you to try.

Good experiments and creations, tim123!

Cheers.

[tim123]

I have a little progress to report on this...

I bought a ZVS (Zero Volt Switch-over) driver circuit - for testing some of the ideas I put forward in this thread - from these folks:
http://www.rmcybernetics.com/shop/induction-heater-circuit

I've successfully run it on a 12v / 240v toroid transformer, and had some fun with that.

I've made a couple of test coils - for induction heating and other tests. One is pictured below. They work really well. For example: With an input of 16v, and 0.6a, there's about 120v and 15a flowing in the tank circuit.

As regards the 'core rearrangement' idea, I have one thing interesting to report:
- Placing any iron in the coil increases the amp-draw considerably. Due to eddy currents... This is the essence of induction heating...
- But, a ferrite rod inserted into the coil *reduces* the amp draw on the power-supply...

So the ferrite becomes magnetised, and improves the efficiency of the coil too... It looks encouraging... If I can set parts of the ferrite core in motion using their own magnetic field - as described before - then perhaps it will be possible to extract power from the changing field - without reducing it....

Current problems:
1) The strength of the magnetic field is not very large - even at full power
2) The 'Q' of the tank-circuit seems to change with applied voltage - I.e. it gets (much) less as voltage goes up, and the amps go up too much...
3) The ferrite rod doesn't develop much magnetic field - only enough to pick up a pin.
4) The frequency is far too high to run a motor...

I need more tank-driving practise... Lol.

[Khwartz]

Still looks very promissing, tim123  Happy Successful New Year In The Free Energy Quest!