--- On Wed, 6/24/09, William Beaty <[email protected]> wrote: > From: William Beaty <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Hiddink capacitor links > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 3:28 PM > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, John Berry > wrote:
> If something interests you, then test it. Don't worry Bill, me and John have been swapping ideas on the Hiddink thing. I'm gonna rig up some tests tonight. Have some writing to do first, so I don't go insane, but then I'll get down to the casting of sparks and melting of wires. > Here's something I've been meaning to test. I expect > that it's real, and > would get the experimenter some fame: Marinov's > ball-bearing motor. > http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/bbmotor.html. The > othodox concensus is > that it's driven by thermal humps in the steel. It's real, it works. You need a car battery to run it, but I suspect I can make one run with a handwound transformer I have. This is a toroidal 'donut' transformer that would make Homer Simpson proud: weighs about 20 pounds I guess, primary is a few hundred turns of 10AWG THHN, secondary is whatever you want. I like using 4 turns of 0/0. You can melt the wire ends just by touching them. The sound this thing makes is incredible. The motor I had was a piece of copper pipe, 1/2" I think, rammed through a pair of matching ball bearings found in my garage. Connect power, does nothing. Flick the flywheel I had connected to it (old aluminum pulley), and it takes off accelerating. Then starts to smoke. It's been a few years since I made one, reckon I ought to make another one to amuse people with. I also have some roller bearings. Maybe try them instead of ball bearings? > idiots. (But man, it's mercury. Do you want that > stuff all over your > kitchen or garage? It's guaranteed to get spilled one > or two times. > Finally we can buy GALINSTAN gallium-based liquid metal > from scitoys.com) I'd buy some, but I am a multi-dollar industry. --Kyle
