Technical Difficulties from on Top of the Mountain
2024-06-11
Making stuff up.
So Way Out West was trying to convert rotational energy into heat, and his first experiment was with friction.
And then when you stack two plates with magnets in between (north up in the rotor, south up on stator), you get something like,
So Way Out West was trying to convert rotational energy into heat, and his first experiment was with friction.
Being the oddball that I am, I decided to think about whether you could do it with magnets. What you want it something like a regular motor/generator, except you have fixed magnets in the rotor and stator. Also in a motor you usually only have three phases, because it gets complicated to do more. Here you don't have that problem. So I designed something with 31 poles acting against 32 teeth so you actually get 992 flux events per rotation. The plates looked something like:
Of course after drawing this, I think I'd change it to have 3x31 and 3x32 teeth so the forces would be balanced, and I'd probably make the ends of the teeth 40% or 30% of the spacing instead of 50% like I did initially.
