Makings of a generator

[Richard Hed]

I built it from a motor that is almost identical to the one at the beginning of the video, Just mine now has a nicer looking exterior

In principle, the generator could work, but the number of windings (red wire) and configu;ration of various parts just don't look right to me. IN YOUR genrator, the parts a;re put togethr properly--no doubt as you have used pre-existing parts put together in well known configurations. YOu take your generator off one very similar to the one in the vid?

I know how yours works, but the one in the vid, am not so sure.

 

[TonyM]

I have made a motor very similar to Jason's work. 6.5 V at 2500 rpm so more than enough to light several diodes.
However this vid. is shown lighting four incandescent bulbs.
I did not intend to try this as I am fairly confident it's a typical fake like the free energy vids. but I might mock one up if i have time, just to put things straight.

 

[Steamchick]

I suspect the canister that looks like a capacitor is probably a battery assembled into the casing, and the way the whole thing has been wired simply uses the motor as a transformer, somehow? - Which could explain the synchronicity with rotating the generator? Or they could be very low voltage bulbs... - maybe 12V? and whatever he shows, the illumination must come from a few 10s of Watts, yet spinning the shaft only inputs a Watt or 2! - He mentions "Transformer" in the title?
I just thought I would "tickle" your brains with this one. I could not believe it! (Or how it was supposed to be working!).. Just hoped someone could spot how the "sleight of hand" was achieved!
K2

 

[Steamchick]

Incidentally, Thermodynamics (not a subject I ever really understood) has the premise that you cannot create "power", just convert energy from one form (sunlight?) to another (electric current powering a hair-dryer - e.g. moving and heating air!).
All changes of the form of power lose a bit of heat - the bit of thermo-dumb-namics that I understood - so eventually, the universe will end up as a uniform warm (but not very warm!) soup...
Except the Big Bang seems to have really happened? Out of "Nothing" became a soup of incredibly small, hot and dense matter and energy? - This then expanded to form what we know as the universe?
As believable as this "Generator"?
HO! HO! HO!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

K2

 

[Richard Hed]

I suspect the canister that looks like a capacitor is probably a battery assembled into the casing, and the way the whole thing has been wired simply uses the motor as a transformer, somehow? - Which could explain the synchronicity with rotating the generator? Or they could be very low voltage bulbs... - maybe 12V? and whatever he shows, the illumination must come from a few 10s of Watts, yet spinning the shaft only inputs a Watt or 2! - He mentions "Transformer" in the title?
I just thought I would "tickle" your brains with this one. I could not believe it! (Or how it was supposed to be working!).. Just hoped someone could spot how the "sleight of hand" was achieved!
K2

There are scores of ways this could be done. He also claims 240V (or 220 at a differnet spot), and by twisting it with a titbit of finger power, that is not going to happen. It's a good joke, but what is the motivation? Hits on utub? Must be, the person who did this could not probably hold a job or make anything useful. Well, I was entertained, but this kind of krap is a nusiance because there are a lot of gullibles who believe it--my son being one. It's really a bother to have to listen to him yakking about this man or that con-artist.

You guys check out Dan Winters, a con-artist hiding in Europe. If he sets foot in USA, he will be arrested. Like any con artist, he knows some buzz words and keeps yakking meaningless strings of words (look at THIS hand). It's ugly to try to watch. He usually yaks for 1-1/2 hours. My son swears this fellow has some real meaning. Pity my son.

Ktoo, the belief in th e big or little bang is awfully close to religion for those who know no physics. BTW, it conservation of energy, not power.

 

[Steamchick]

There's a phrase.. "God bless the children, for the know not what they think or say"... or something mixed up in my childish noggin... (I include Politicians, Actors, Newsreaders, etc. in this version of "Children"... !).
HAPPY NEW YEAR to your Son too!
K2

 

[Richard Hed]

There's a phrase.. "God bless the children, for the know not what they think or say"... or something mixed up in my childish noggin... (I include Politicians, Actors, Newsreaders, etc. in this version of "Children"... !).
HAPPY NEW YEAR to your Son too!
K2

LOL, thanx, and it is well known that I act like a 12 year old--does that count? And I LOOK like a 25 year old.

 

[Steamchick]

In that case I must be about 8 years old... - I just look a little over 37...
K2

 

[TonyM]

Tried some new bearings and modified the brush end and a cast foot. It is a serviceable unit at 6+ volts at 900 rpm and 12v + at 1800 rpm.
For a final piece I will probably try and get the end caps printed to a more aesthetically pleasing shape, but for now a bit of finishing and painting for this one.

 

[Steamchick]

Good work!
You have made a "solution" that is right for you. - The ends look "good" to my judgment. - but perhaps you have a period generator you are trying to emulate with different webs, holes, or whatever? Do you have a photo of what you have in mind? Historically, Generators were painted the "factory colour" of the day. I have seen Dark Green, Mid-Red, Mid or dark grey, Black (gloss) and mid or dark blue! On one job, I recall the Compressor suppler complaining because the main Contactor wanted all motors and similar to be in "Battleship Grey" - which colour never actually existed. (The navy used either "Light Admiralty Grey or Dark-Grey" as their official colours!). The motors came from their factory in Green! - A top-coat of Mid-Grey worked to satisfy the customer.
Would the generator work with "PC 3D-printed" plastic ends? Maybe in Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) or whatever? - Then you can probably make them to any style and colour you wish!
K2

 

[TonyM]

Thanks Ken. I imagine the whole thing could be printed. The magnets are in a plastic cage which slides out and the new end for the brushes I made out of an odd piece of nylon bar I had lying about. Nothing specific but something like this is what I had in mind.