2013 Pulsed Motor Build Off Competition Announced

[SeaMonkey]

...I believe what you are saying is that instead of a long string of a page location, one could simply post a link that says "check this out" or something.  Is this what you are saying?

Aye, that is it!

When created this is what the Hyperlink
will look like:

Pirate's posting.

Once learned, the process is quite simple.

[Pirate88179]

Aye, that is it!

When created this is what the Hyperlink
will look like:

Pirate's posting.

Once learned, the process is quite simple.

I have been doing that for years but, I was not aware that Stefan upgraded the SMF software so we could do that here.  I must have missed that upgrade.  Thanks for pointing it out.

Bill

[TinselKoala]

That is pretty funny...
I tell you how to build the most amazing thing you will likely ever see in these pages, and you are bitching about how I typed a link to a vacuum flange gasket.

(not 'you' Bill, you know what I mean....)

[MileHigh]

I run an up-to-date Firefox but the hyperlink insertion has never worked for me.  I don't get prompted or see a place to insert descriptive text.  I don't know if I have something disabled, it's just an annoyance.  My quote button only half works and doesn't pop up the "unquote" meta-text command string.  Flash, Java, all that crap has to be made invisible soon, perhaps in a HTML5 universe?

Speaking of motors, see the attached pic of a simple ion drive rotary motor.  That concept could be converted into an ion-drive pulse motor.  It works from the principle that sharp edges emanate the strongest electric fields so the air molecules get ionized at the tips of the needles and get pushed away at high speed.  So the thing spins due to the Third Law of Motion.

With a Hall sensor you could trigger a small coil like a conventional Bedini/classic pulse motor setup.  The voltage may get fairly high and there are no neons to protect your transistor.  So perhaps a small home-brew ignition coil type of configuration would be the way to go.  That eliminates the possible frying of your diode/transistor problem.

The coil-based HV pulsing circuit would "discharge" through the spinning rotor and the current would flow into the ion discharge needle array.  Every coil discharge would generate a "puff" of ions to keep the motor turning.  You might even be able to push it and get some special effects.

The rotor doesn't have to be measly pieces of bent wire with sharp pointed ends either.  You could make "needle arrays" mounted on a nice rotor frame or use knife edges for the ion discharge and have a bigger coil and more ion pushing power.  It would be a challenge to have the right sized components and to figure out how to tune it.  Also, note that the entire rotor is pulsing at a high potential when the rotor is spinning.

Could be fun!

[SeaMonkey]

I don't get prompted or see a place to insert descriptive text.

Within the editor for this forum you
highlight the "descriptive text" then
click on the hyperlink icon.

Then into the blank area of the url
box in the popup right-click paste your
previously saved (copied) url, then click
OK.

...and you are bitching about how I typed a link to a vacuum flange gasket.

Do we detect a bit of resistance to a better
way here?

Ah, the difficulties of dealing with ANPD... 

O.K., I'm outtahere until your next screwup.