One magnet no bearing Bedini motor

[Pirate88179]

while we are on silly questions the poles of the mag are all the same direction right? I have tried a lot of stuff including spinning the thing by hand to see if i could light a led or something...no go....

I think I'm gonna hook this up to an old oscilloscope I have and maybe I can see whats going on a little better

maybe I should use different magnets the neomags are really strong or maybe take out the core

I used 1/2" dia. x 1/4" thick neos on my bench model Bedini rotor set-up and they work fine.  i read you are supposed to have all of the north poles facing out but, I had already glued mine 8 ways from Sunday with the south poles facing out and it still works fine.  But yes, all are supposed to be the same.  Go on youtube and find user Introvertabrate.  he has some very good tutorial videos on how to make the Bedini sg as well as detailed circuit diagrams.  This is the circuit I have used for both of my bedinis and they work.  It call for the 3055 transistor and one n4001 and one n4007 diodes, a neon, and a 400 ohm resistor and one variable resistor of 5k.  I used Lidmotor's transformer coil design and my core is cut off nails (high iron content, you can check various nails with a magnet) epoxied in the coil.

All of this was very confusing to me until I got it to work and then the 2nd one, for Jonny's replication was way easier to build.

I hope this helps.

Bill

[jonnydavro]

@Pirate.Congrats on your latest EB experiment and getting the Bedini to spin.Real nice Bill.Whats that saying?Oh yeah from little acorns a big tree grows.I've got the feeling this might apply here and that energy looks pretty free to me.I was thinking today that you may be able to combine this with solar cells.If you have a small solar cell,an interesting experiment might be to charge a cap up and try to link it to your big mama cap.Just thinking.
@pyrodini.Something is wrong if your coil is squeeling with no resistance in the trigger circuit.Thinking about it,your build maybe a bit over complicated if this is your first stab at making a Bedini.Pirate gives good advice regarding introvertebrates video as i think his  step by step vid has resulted in hundreds of successful builds or even downloading thedaftmans bedini diagram which is a dead cert for a working motor.(search thedaftman on utube)So is what i would do is try introvertebrate's step by step and when you have a working motor,then start adding and changing things about.This way you will make progress a lot quicker as you will get a good understanding of the circuit and be able to solve problems as they occur.Don't give up pyrodini as you have done the hard bit winding the coil.Keep us informed off your progress and we will do all we can to help.Regards jonny

[PYRODIN123321]

Hey yall, thanks for the help, I got it going this evening.... used a bigger coil from an old ac motor instead of the relay I was using.... think the squealing was indeed the resistance being too high....the neon doesn't flash, but its not a very good one for this, need a smaller one.....
@pirate & jonnydavro
thanks again for all your great advice, makes things a lot easier

[PYRODIN123321]

One of these off a ground batt is pretty cool!

[retrod]

What fun! I had to video my first attempt at replication tonight. I was tired but happy it was working, even using some incorrect materials. Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck5sbR7u2q0
Thanks Jonny!

Dave