how neat a different type of motor.....look ma no politics!!
Its called a Mendocino motor....its levitated by magnets, and powered by solar panels....and I weren't so dumb, id put the you tube link in here....so I will put some pictures here instead......
....as the light charges a panel it charges a coil, the coil reacts to the 5th magnet underneath, causing a deflection. As the panel turns it loses the light, then the next panel gets charged and so on....end result ...it spins its little booty off as long as there is a light source!!!The big question is .....Is there enough torque to spin a loosely coupled generator, if built big enough....ill have to play with this one.....it would be nice to have a solar generator to power "stuff".........if you can get strong enough magnets to float a heavier armature, and maybe add more than a four sided panel array....how bout a octagonal array or even higher multiples...one idea I have (but don't know how do wire it yet), is include a few capacitors in the mix and a charging circuit, and timer device , so that instead of say 3 volts continuous, at a few milliamperes, you could pulse the voltage at a higher level with more amperage, kinda like they do with dc motor pwm...(pulse width modulation.....controls the speed of the motor without sacrificing torque, by pulsing the full voltage at frequency) so maybe a voltage multiplier and pwm combined, at a set frequency? May not increase speed but you might a little more torque....foood for thought.....riff
....as the light charges a panel it charges a coil, the coil reacts to the 5th magnet underneath, causing a deflection. As the panel turns it loses the light, then the next panel gets charged and so on....end result ...it spins its little booty off as long as there is a light source!!!The big question is .....Is there enough torque to spin a loosely coupled generator, if built big enough....ill have to play with this one.....it would be nice to have a solar generator to power "stuff".........if you can get strong enough magnets to float a heavier armature, and maybe add more than a four sided panel array....how bout a octagonal array or even higher multiples...one idea I have (but don't know how do wire it yet), is include a few capacitors in the mix and a charging circuit, and timer device , so that instead of say 3 volts continuous, at a few milliamperes, you could pulse the voltage at a higher level with more amperage, kinda like they do with dc motor pwm...(pulse width modulation.....controls the speed of the motor without sacrificing torque, by pulsing the full voltage at frequency) so maybe a voltage multiplier and pwm combined, at a set frequency? May not increase speed but you might a little more torque....foood for thought.....riff Comment(s) »
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Many years ago a friend and I discussed the possibilities of someone inventing a cheap energy source. We were of the opinion that the economic impact would be world changing and in a virtual instant. We, also, speculated on whether or not the inventor would be killed. Imagine all oil prices dropping to nearly jack. Imagine Exxon stock falling to pennies a share. Imagine no more electric bills.Honestly, I don't think the government would sit still. I think they'd declare a national security crisis.
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