Updates: Greyland's friend went out drinking Friday night instead of coming by the shop to help him connect up the coils. Fine motor skill tasks are still a challenge for him, so it will probably be this weekend before he has the motor up and running. SO that's the progress on THAT project.
The other individual who is in CA and is adding repulsion magnets to his existing build has been too busy with actual WORK to make any progress, but he will keep me posted. The third individual who is replicating the generator and building one for me at the same time sent the following pictures this last week:
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Bro, you can use aluminum for the rotors, but you need something strong and non-magnetic to make the coil holders out of. Garalite might work for that, and we may give it a try one day soon. But with equal attraction of the rotor magnets in both directions because of coils on both sides of the rotor, and magnetic repulsion equal because of repulsion magnets on both sides of the rotor, most of the stresses I was running into have been eliminated. By having the rotor shaft larger between the bearings, we eliminated the ability of the shaft to move from side to side because of a nut coming loose, so the major stress point is where the rotor is attached to the shaft, and we went up to a 1" diameter shaft.
The best news I have had recently is my contractor is taking a week's vacation from his regular job and will FINISH ALL HIS PROJECTS AT MY HOUSE in the next week. That means I could be done in a couple weeks. Once that happens I will have at least three or four days a week I can devote to this stuff. I have several projects I have not brought here because I have had no time to test them on the bench myself, although people I talk to have been having some success. I know how bi wants to have his cake and eat it to, and can't be troubled to actually build anything, so don't want to share something I haven't built myself, even though others have taken the idea and run with it.
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