Magnet motor in Argentina

[Omnibus]

I think it's a good idea to agree on a size and come to a building plan together. That way everyone has the same info and at the sametime the information is spread around the world. (Just in case it is as good as claimed for!)
Lets work together here....

That's a great suggestion ... I'm all for it.

[dutchy1966]

? ? ? ?I am proposing a nice round 4 or 6" inch diameter figure.

Jaybird:
Are you talking about the size of the whole engine or just the rotor part?
Also we need to work in inches (is it called imperial?) and metric system (thats what we use over here)
I was thinking for the rotor part the use a CD (size) as a base for the rotor, they're cheap, easy for everyone to get hold of and probably easy to glue some magnets on.

Apart from that we need to establish a few other things:
1) How many rotor magnets? There prototypes with 3 and 4 magnets.....
2) How many stator segments, I've seen models with 7 (the wooden one), 8 and even 10 segments

dutchy

[Omnibus]

jaybird, you may be right that the differences in the constructions may only be slight.

I was thinking that the stator magnets may be mounted below the triangular ramp, facing the rotor magnets mounted on the reverse side of the rotor plate. Thus, on top of rotor plate there will only be the wheel and the motor cap. Of course, this is just an idea which may not be the best.

[Omnibus]

clutchy1966, I suggest that we express all dimensions in metric system. Also, there are two CD formats -- 8cm and 12cm diameter.

[jaybird]

I'm all in...metric is fine, we have to learn both here I have been experimenting with some magnets on the small order, app. equal to an 8cm CD.

It is surprising what can be learned by just gluing some magnets to an old CD elevated a bit, then trying various positions of the magnets.


Here is the simple setup I am using for this project....You would be surprised how easy it is to make rotation this way, and even better, if you time it right (magnet in each hand) you can get really fast speed.

? There are many many variations to try, below is just a simple sample.... I am working on making 6 craft-stick magnet levers similar to the torbay arms...with a hinged fulcrum...