Super simple way to see proof Pseudo Solid principle works using ring magnets

[norman6538]

Thanks Butch.
I missed the coils in that drawing cause they were not labeled.

It sure has flux switching on and off.
and hopefully no or little drag....
go for it.

Norman

[gammarayburst]

Thanks Butch.
I missed the coils in that drawing cause they were not labeled.

It sure has flux switching on and off.
and hopefully no or little drag....
go for it.

Norman

Thanks Norman, I'm going to continue to post designs till I have a working design so simple that a 5th grader can build one for 5 dollars.

[norman6538]

Butch are there eddy currents in the design above. I think eddy currents come from
current flowing but in many of your designs the mag flux changes but no current flows
and thus no eddy current loss problems. That in itself is a great advantage.

Norman

[deslomeslager]

See my sketch (made on e-book, edited in paint, sorry for that).
The idea is start with an E-core, remove some in the middle to place the magnet, and now stick the 3 parts in between the two rotating half disks. Of course we would like to have many pieces, not just 2, but i am not able to draw that.
My idea is that as disk 1 is leaving arms 1 and 2, disk 2 is (with the same speed) inserting itself in arms 2 and 3, and thus transferring the flux from arms 1+2 to 2+3. This will induce useful power in the coils. I do not know if the Lenz effect will give drag.

[gyulasun]

Butch are there eddy currents in the design above. I think eddy currents come from
current flowing but in many of your designs the mag flux changes but no current flows
and thus no eddy current loss problems. That in itself is a great advantage.

Norman

Hi Norman,

I think eddy currents come from changing flux in a solid ferromagnetic core (the changing flux may originate from a coil wound on that core or from an outside source like a moving magnet near that core).
This means that in Butch's setups the rotation of the rotor causes a flux change in the volume, in the mass of the core (and here the word core includes both the stator and the rotor cores)  so they must have either laminated core or ferrite core or metglass core which has a restricted electric current conducting ability.  A solid core which can conduct electric current in its volume all the way in every direction is destined to have eddy losses.  (This is why a normal off the shelf transformer has laminated core and not a solid one.)

Gyula