Introducing... The Adams Axial

[unimmortal]

Ha, silly me, I was only switching one side. Here's a low speed run to show how switching the output coils gets the rotor out of the hole.

Full speed runs won't happen till I can fashion an ignition point system.

https://youtube.com/shorts/n1ODXr3tUu8?s...8vU3ktQnLz-

[unimmortal]

This is now so much more than it was...

I knew I was still missing the last piece. Taking a look over at aboveunity.org where a couple of discussions around the Adams generator were being had, when I noticed the pulse coils were counterwound. This is something I've recently explored on the back of @Turion posing a couple of videos on biasing a rotor.

Adams was biasing his rotor with the pulse coils. 

I've taken that and run with it. 

Primary pulse from the bottom, counterwound coil pulse from the top. Alternating, generator coils are the same but opposite. Primary at the top and counterwound at the bottom.

When the magnet tries to reconcile a native wound coil after a switch open event, the usual forces come into play. But when the other end of the magnet is undergoing the same process but with a counterwound coil - we receive current as the magnet attempts to reconcile the two ends.

I'm now putting out more current than consuming on one AC output unswitched. Switched with a relay, I've found the spot where over an amp is flowing and the rotor is sped up.

With an airgap of 11mm, I can't wait to see what happens down around 5mm...

More to come.

[unimmortal]

Rightio, almost game time. After finally realising that Adams was essentially firing EMs at magnets, this project is nearing completion.

6 coils wired in series, 50 ohm, on 3 cores with rotating magnets at either end gave me back 150V in a previous design. Now that I've worked out a few things, I can now put in the other 6 coils, joined by the inner winding leads and get that up to a pretty healthy ~300VAC.

I'm going to pause here for a moment and quickly make it clear that from here on in we're dealing with high voltage.

Why the high voltages? Adams himself made the comment that you need 120V to get Neo magnets spinning with his design. I also think he meant that you also need to hit them with at least that much when you switch the generator coils.

The larger the field I can switch, the bigger the response will be from the magnets. Having two coils between two magnets makes for an even stronger response when switched.

Proximity is still my Achilles heel. The magnetic forces are starting to get a little ridiculous, which means I will most likely need 2 more rotors on the out side of the pulse coils to generate the field strength to allow the generator coils to get up real close to the magnets. 

So in a nutshell, I'm now setting up to alternatively fire  ~300V into 6 magnets from a range of 3-4mm - with an input of less than 20W. Should be quite the show...

[unimmortal]

Quick update on the build.

I've put the generator coil holder plate on bearings, and now I can finally tune as Adams did! There is a very precise spot where equilibrium exists between pulse and generator coils, but as I've always had all coils fixed, it was never going to be found with timing.

Playing around with linkages to hold the gen coils in place is looking very promising and will give me the precision and strength I need - and it's a bit of fun  Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register at the forum by clicking here to see images.

A couple of coils have been 'overhandled' and need re-rolling - always more work to do...

[unimmortal]

A little more progress on the build. Linkage setup is complete and works a charm. There is around 45° of adjustment available, and when roughly tuned, gave up a sustained 70V with a good two handed spin... very happy days.

Wiring up the relays is next, and mounting a magnetic timing wheel on top to trigger them via a FET.

I'm keeping the airgap at 10mm for the time being until everything is shaken out properly and the gen switching is dialed in.

[Jim Mac]

Impressive!

[unimmortal]

Thanks Jim.

Couldn't help myself, I had to see how it ran, and now I have more questions.

In the video, the two gen coil sets are wired together.

Twice I short the coils, and each time the rotors noticeably speed up.

At 30V shorted, the motor won't run, at 33V it gets going, and at 36V it runs faster shorted than it does open!

The only differentiator is that one phase is CW wound, and the other is CCW... wiring them into each other (phase A inner > outer > phase B inner > outer) revealed around 36V.

More tuning to be done before getting on with switching all that voltage.

https://youtube.com/shorts/BJlMMYxL060?s...RJO8vOhMiw

[unimmortal]

A bit more tuning and a few adjustments now has this kicking out 220V.

I've spent a bit of time trying to work out how these hall sensors need to be mounted. It seems they like existing in X,Y and Z, angled back (as a magnetic field doesn't flow straight up) and slightly tilted for a finer shave of the passing magnet. PITA!!!  So I need something quite adjustable to mount over a timing wheel.

The other really cool thing that has come out is rotation speed and field effects. With my gen coil sets wired together and then shorted without sufficient rpm will simply bog down and stop. BUT, with sufficient rpm (1600-1800rpm), the rotating field forms and starts to try and reconcile the fact that there are electrons flowing between the counterwound coils that are spinning in the opposite direction.

This then seems to have the effect of a big draw and a good speed up - like a batton relay runner doing a changeover but not getting close enough to the runner ahead, so they have to keep running..

Now I'm switching all 24 coils and again with the gen coils switched and shorted, all I hear is it wanting to just keep pulling harder and harder.


8mm of airgap to close up, and we'll see what this can really do.

[unimmortal]

After a week of inch-worming that airgap, I'm now down at 5mm - and I'll be stuck here for a while. I'm really starting to feel that 90kg of combined holding force on each side of the generator coils.

The field effect has so far been validated. At 8mm the differential had grown to 40V and the effect was again stronger. But now at 5mm I'm simply hitting a wall.

1158rpm, 192V, self starting and running smoothly, but not an rpm more. I've added the relays to switch gen coils which works fantastically at low rpm getting the rotor out of the hole, but, I lose 'traction' as the rpms increase.

Plan B is in motion, with a second pair of rotors to go outside of the pulse coils being printed atm. This will allow me to bias the airgap right down to the point where the magnets can be seen wanting to leaving the rotor when hand turned. 

The two other really big benefits a) Currently only using one side of my pulse coils  Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register at the forum by clicking here to see images. and b) The field effect that is driving the generator coils can also be employed equally by the pulse coils by switching them into a different circuit once max rpm is reached. I believe that with enough voltage being 'reconciled' between counterwound coils, a tipping point will be reached where the resolving forces will create a field strong enough to self sustain.

Hopefully this will be the last piece of the puzzle.