MylowHJ Replication - Discussion

[TinselKoala]

And another replicator!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWwTJ2iqzM

This researcher will definitely be the first genuine MyLOW motor replicator. I can't hold a candle to this codger.
RESPECT!!

[BEP]

This researcher will definitely be the first genuine MyLOW motor replicator. I can't hold a candle to this codger.
RESPECT!!

I think open flame may be a bad idea there 

[0c]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWwTJ2iqzM

This researcher will definitely be the first genuine MyLOW motor replicator. I can't hold a candle to this codger.
RESPECT!!

Looks a lot like the kind of work I have done. 

[dixiepnum]

@TK...

okay....you know more than me about electricity...and you have ages more experience with this stuff than I do...

if this thing was pushing an 10 pound disc for 24 hours straight at 120rpm, how much electrical energy could you store, and how long would that energy keep a 60w lightbulb lit?

I know this question is full of holes, so fill in the assumptions and make an estimate...

for the education us regular folks...

[TinselKoala]

@TK...

okay....you know more than me about electricity...and you have ages more experience with this stuff than I do...

if this thing was pushing an 10 pound disc for 24 hours straight at 120rpm, how much electrical energy could you store, and how long would that energy keep a 60w lightbulb lit?

I know this question is full of holes, so fill in the assumptions and make an estimate...

for the education us regular folks...

Hmm--well, I do have some numbers. With my motor drive as shown, using that little tape drive motor, which is a brush-type DC motor with little centrifugal limiters on the armature, it draws about 160 milliAmps while running at about 120 RPM, a bit more when accelerating. And with a different motor and drive system, more like what I believe M. is using, I can cut the draw down to under 100 milliAmps. My disk and magnets weighs between 4 and 5 kilos depending on how many magnets are on it. Now, when I load that disk with the same kind of motor as a generator, I can light up a LED Joule Thief with about 20 milliamps, and the disk slows to 80 RPM or so. So figure 20 milliamps at 2 volts or so for 24 hours, into a cap bank, that's 40 milliwatt-seconds for 24 hours, that's 3456 Joules, which isn't a lot.
Er, what was the question again? Oh, yeah...the answer is not much, and not very long. About 57 seconds for the 60 watt light bulb, if I haven't dropped a decimal somewhere and assuming no losses and perfect conversions. Does that agree with your figures?

But that's not the major feature of this motor. It is creating its momentum from nothing. (The rotor is being pushed along without pushing back on the stator mount.) There are many more useful ways to use that momentum than just extracting electricity from it.

Too bad it isn't really doing it.