STEORN DEMO LIVE & STREAM in Dublin, December 15th, 10 AM

[callanan]

@ Ossie,

Great work !!

That stator would not be made from roofing iron by chance ?

It looks to be slightly larger than you new low friction setup. Hope I'm on the right track.

Would love to replicate this one.


Regards, Penno

Hi Penno,

I am simply using one layer of builders frame strapping tin/steel for the core. You can get it from the hardware and it has holes in it. It is pretty thin and looks to be less then 1mm thick. I think two layers maybe better but I will work with this completed coil for the moment.

Another good core material would be that heavy duty box strapping tin that is black. I have used that before and it makes good cores.

Regards,

Ossie

[captainpecan]

@ Ossie, great stuff!  Looks like your drifting, but in a good way!

@ all,
A couple interesting things to note from Steorn's argument with TK:

1st...  When asked to replace the battery with a capacitor, Sean gave a response that made no sense... "Not as easy as you may think - we need a pretty instant current responce (due to the rotational speed), hence the 'deep' battery."
....  WTF, this makes no sense.  Why would he post a reply like that?  Everybody knows caps are WAY faster at pushing instant current than any battery I've ever heard of!  There are a trillion other responses he could have had to that question, but this was not a response I expected.

2nd... Check out this quote... "As for the delay - there is no delay, there is a current rise, its very slow, thats due to the core material that we use."
....  This would certainly indicate that they DO NOT use normal core material for their toroidal coils.

I'm more confused than ever about Orbo now.  I get the feeling that either Sean is just playing dumb, or they are trying to throw off any replicators.  Either way is fine, it's their discovery, and they are releasing it at their own speed.  It's just weird responses from Sean is all I'm saying.

[gravityblock]

Here's the video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eROp7R0QrY

The toroid coil does not heat up and I have excellent attraction between the core and magnets after placing each pair of magnets with the same poles attached to the metal backing plate.

As you can see the webcam's LED flickers on/off when the motor is running.  It really scares me that this motor can turn my webcam on.  When the signal for the TV is 0, the motor is running then I have my g/f disconnect the power to the motor and the signal increases to around 50%.  My off-air antenna is outside on the roof very far from my motor and It is hard to believe this motor could affect the digital signal at these distances.

Throughout the video I had my g/f connect and disconnect the power supply for various reasons, but the audio doesn't come through very well when recording videos from my cell phone so it's hard to really tell what is going on.

I have too much power going into my toroid at this point and I am sure it is repelling the magnets instead of letting it just pass by, so this will allow me to decrease the power input.  With additional coils I should be able to maintain the same RPM's at a much lower input.

This is the same toroid coil that ran hot and would barely rotate without the neo magnets attached to the coil.  It now runs much faster, more efficient, and much cooler after I made these changes in addition to the weird side affects.  More videos to come soon after a few more modifications.


GB

[Jimboot]

Hi Jimboot,

Video looks good.  How many ohms are your toroids?  What awg magnet wire and length per toroid?  And, lastly, I could not see your trigger coil.  What size wire for it and length?  I ask because I am comparing the builds I have seen in this regard, and getting ideas for when my toroids arrive...hopefully Monday.  I am wrapping them with 26awg.

Thanks!

Bruce

Got the coil switch circuit working now. 0.3mm wire 100 turns

[captainpecan]

Vid is now live. Accidentally made it private last night.

Way to go Jimboot!  It feels good to get your first project running doesn't it!  Keep it up!