ok guys...

My Tach finally showed up so I can confirm the speeds and amps with and without the "choke" in the trigger circuit... just for the record I am using 6 magnets on an 8cm diameter rotor....

without the choke, the best sweet spot I can get is drawing 410ma at 2600rpm
so pulsing at about 260 hertz

WITH the choke it is drawing 280ma at 2700rpm...
so pulsing at about 270 hertz

suprised that no one else has posted similar results

since rpm doesn't really mean anything when comparing one motor with another, does anyone else know what frequency their motors are pulsing at? I'm sure that's signifcant.


Aaron - As I said I couldn't get your version of the superpole to work (pretty sure my magnets need to be stronger) but I thought I could get similar results if I just made a standard monopole configuration but with the souths facing out instead of the norths....

getting pretty good results.... no noticable increase in charging the battereis but interesting performance of the motor...

with a normal north pole configuration my coils would vibrate alot if they weren't strapped in....

but with the south pole configuration they hardly vibrate at all... they don't even need to be strapped in... it's like the coils aren't interacting with the rotor magnets at all... that seems like a good thing, no?