Thank you Aaron, and especially Kevin--the pieces are starting to fall into place! Of course it helps to have a copy of
Free Energy Generation at hand. I didn't realize just how useful that photo gallery would be, especially when looking at John Bedini's site and wishing I had a closeup of some of his machines.
This was a good first step, as all the things I've been reading about and seen are starting to come together as a coherent whole.
I have much more to say about the subject of the Bedini motor, but I think that this thread is probably not the right one to say it in. Having said that, I will say this: I started to make the next machine which will have four coils and four circuits (single-coil/multi-circuit will be the third iteration). But since it has only one coil and one circuit, you could consider it a SG motor.
I was a bit disappointed to find that I could only get around 700 turns from my 1/2 lb spool of #22 wire--I was hoping to get at least 900. I guess it's back to the internet sites to get a 7 lb. (or thereabouts) spool.
At any rate, I got it running last night and let it run overnight just to see if it would, and it did. Even with the lousy bearing I have in the rotor.
I put the diode in between the coil and the collector to see what was there and lo and behold I saw some voltage spikes peaking around 200V! Obviously my instrument is too slow to really see what's going on with that part of the circuit but it's enough to get an indication. Needless to say, it's a bit stunning to see it for the first time.
And since at this point we're no longer talking about the basic schoolgirl design, I will continue this discussion in a more appropriate thread. Complete with pictures, too!
