Oh, and I totally failed to replicate that ball bearing motor thing, but it does work.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Kyle Mcallister <kyle_mcallis...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > --- On Wed, 6/24/09, William Beaty <bi...@eskimo.com> wrote: > > > From: William Beaty <bi...@eskimo.com> > > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Hiddink capacitor links > > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > > 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 > > > > >
