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05-08-2024, 10:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2024, 10:54 PM by unimmortal.)
Nice work Jim. I just found a similar thing with my pulse motor gen coils. You could short half of the coils and the other half jumped from 12.5 - 15.5VAC. No core connection though, just coils on the same horizontal plane.
Is the increase in current a result of the AC trying to push through a saturated core, caused by the shorted secondaries? How do you propose to alternate or switch the secondaries to induce the increased flow?
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I am going to make a leap here and say this. It may be erroneous. And I think most won't understand what I am saying.
I tested the same ides but with winding both secondary's on 1 leg, where 1 is wrapped directly on the first- like a 2 layer bifilar. When it is like that, I short 1 output and the other completely goes to ZERO.
I kind of expected this. The magnetic polarities and interactions can be COMPLETELY DIFFERENT depending on how the secondary's are positioned.
When they are wrapped like a bifilar, the inside layer receives the induction from the core, and the outside layer induces from the outside of the first layer. The currents oppose each other and cancel out.
When the 2 secondary's are on separate core legs, the magnetic fields buck- like a standard transformer, thus increasing the output of both.
I am not clear on it all, but there may be a way to create a transformer which we can feed the output of a generator to, which could mitigate lenz drag on the rotor.