----- Original Message ----- From: Horace Heffner <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009 12:30 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:vortex balls!
> I've updated: > > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/HullMotor.pdf > > to add: "Regarding Fig. 5, a strategy to improve conductivity and > yet > retain some of the effective flux is to construct the driver disk > using a thin copper disk sandwiched between two iron disks. A > further improvement would consist of cutting fine radial groves in > the outer portion of the central copper disk in order to keep the > radial current tightly confined geometrically. It is possible to > construct both the brush disk and active disk in an identical > manner, > and thus obtain two active disks. The control experiment then > consists of replacing the iron disks with copper disks." > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > I wonder if it would work if the ends of the shaft were connected to the leads with brushes, instead of connecting the leads to the bearings. Harry
