Circuit setups for pulse motors

[tropes]

[ETA: btw, the circuits are as of the Bedini school boy motor and the Newman motor which you will find online which are the ones I used, the levitation circuit is mostly my own, when my website is back up I will post the circuit.

Could you explain the differences between the Stan Meyer motor and the others. The circuits may be similar but the physical makeup is different ( ring magnet rotor; wire wound stator).
Peter

[Nastrand2000]

The energy is so little right now that I don't think the zener is eating to much of it. But thank you for the heads up, I was not aware of the heating issue. However, I would assume that the zener works like a diode and a resistor mixed.
Jason

[Nastrand2000]

Well here is the video to build a pulse motor, tell me if I need to make another. I don't think that it is very clear, but I need some input. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ok9ueCDiP4&mode=user&search=
Jason

[Nastrand2000]

was that clear enough..if not I will make another.
Jason

[Ren]

Hi everybody, back from holidays! You've all been busy!.

Nastrand, good work mate, the tutorial, the testing etc. I found the vid pretty clear. Good to see some alterations and test charging happening.  I built some circuits while I was away and have done some more probing. I would like to have a go at your setup Jase, minus the north/south arangement, just using first winding for pickup and second for firing.

@ hoptoad, thanks again for your excellent pages of juicy info, although I must admit the inclusion of mosfets etc on the third page is way out of my league for now! I wired up the pnp to your specs and found it to run, although it ran slower and amp draw sat at a constant level as it sped up. Perhaps I have wired it up wrong. I have gone back to the old config with the coil connected to the emitter, but I will try the hall hookup to a npn and see if I can improve it. On this old config the collector and emmiter read 200v spikes as speed increases, but I do not get anywhere near that when I insert a diode on both or even one, in any direction. I look forward to studying your info over the next few days.

@ thinkgreen. Welcome! All I can stay is start small and grasp the basics, then move forward. No question is too dumb here, I only started about 3 months ago so I'll still have plenty of dumb ones to ask! Have a look at the other thread in Pulse motors and watch some of the vids. I am capturing voltage on the secondaries by using a hall circuit to fire the first winding and simply send the secondaries to a bridge. Where you go from there is up to you.

@ Running bare. I am a little unsure about your comments on lead acid battery charging. Are you saying that you can reacharge a battery from another (like bedini) constantly swapping run/charge but they will eventually go flat, thus making it pointless? Please correct me if this is not what you mean.


@ tropes. I am charging an alkaline 9 volt (non rechargeable) off the secondaries. I send the secondaries to a bridge rectifier and then send the + and - to a cap. The lines continue through the cap to a switch and then to the battery. When the switch is off the cap will fill (330uf 100v) to around 60 volts, but as soon as the switch is closed the voltage drops to the capacity of the battery being charged. It then rises quite rapidly, slowing down after a minute or so to gradually tick over. Its taken an hour or so but I have charged a 9 v (was at 7.22v) up to full capacity. (I will check to see if voltage drops back overnight). I'll draw you a little diagram if you like. This is just the voltage off one secondary too, not off the collector or emitter.

Look forward to everyones comments.