While I do not think this may be the highest power producing concept of all ideas out there... I've yet to see someone try it, and on a small scale these motors are very easy to come by, free. There is one (not as shown, but indeed a low speed torque motor) in every scanner. I recently got an excellent one in a all-in-one laser,scanner,fax combo machines. In my town at least, this stuff is easy to get, it's everywhere. It barely costs anything new, and one damaged or even outdated, it's worth nothing at all. I have got 15 scanner/printers for $0.
So I have started this thread because there are several Milkovic spin off designs, power function concepts... and I don't want to infiltrate other great threads... this one is just for the step motor concept, and here it is:
Everything is fixed. The stepmotor, the auxillary large blue gear's center rotational point - the overhead support for the return spring, all solidly put in place. The only things that move are the Milkovic hammer, the blue gear, and thus the drive gear on the step motor.
Step motors are 4 phase. I know from testing, it only takes a small amount of rotation to produce current. For example, you can attach 40 LEDs to a small step motor and spin the wheel back and forth and easily illuminate all of the LEDs without a problem. i did it and I may have only been using one half of one phase, cause I only had one hot wire and it wasn't even rectified. If you use all phases rectified, can u produce enough juice to oscillate and pulse a bifilar coil to perpetuate the pendulum Bob? I wouldn't doubt it. Interestesting cheap little experiment I'd like to try.
Shown is a more expensive Step motor.
To determine if a step motor has any current potential, simply short the leads out, against one another and turn the gear. If you can feel quite a substantial difference in the difficulty to turn the main gear, your step motor has some power to it.
So I have started this thread because there are several Milkovic spin off designs, power function concepts... and I don't want to infiltrate other great threads... this one is just for the step motor concept, and here it is:
Everything is fixed. The stepmotor, the auxillary large blue gear's center rotational point - the overhead support for the return spring, all solidly put in place. The only things that move are the Milkovic hammer, the blue gear, and thus the drive gear on the step motor.
Step motors are 4 phase. I know from testing, it only takes a small amount of rotation to produce current. For example, you can attach 40 LEDs to a small step motor and spin the wheel back and forth and easily illuminate all of the LEDs without a problem. i did it and I may have only been using one half of one phase, cause I only had one hot wire and it wasn't even rectified. If you use all phases rectified, can u produce enough juice to oscillate and pulse a bifilar coil to perpetuate the pendulum Bob? I wouldn't doubt it. Interestesting cheap little experiment I'd like to try.
Shown is a more expensive Step motor.
To determine if a step motor has any current potential, simply short the leads out, against one another and turn the gear. If you can feel quite a substantial difference in the difficulty to turn the main gear, your step motor has some power to it.
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