Bruce DePalma gyroscope experiment

[Aaron]

Faraday generator

This doesn't have anything to do with the gyroscope...but
I built something like the DePalma gen once. I cut and polished the copper out of the backing plate of heat sink and made a copper disc out of it. I used 2 ring magnets on each side and a 1/8" brass shaft and epoxied all them to the copper disc. I used a brass shaft and ran it through the copper disc that was glued to the magnets. I added carbon brushes from dremel tool, with a fabricated brush holder that covered 180 degrees of the bottom the copper and 180 degrees of the top of the brass shaft. The shaft used 3 brushes and the disc use 12 I believe.
I had bearings on each end of the shaft that were isolated via the wood held them in. I used rotozip tool to power the gen.
I ran 10 ohm resistor for the load and the mechanism produce between .8 volt and 1.4 volt depending on the rpm , but continuously produced 4 amp. I can't remember the rpm's but that easy to solve if you have dremel.

The thing that through me off was the amps. Ohms Law???

Never went any further but it was something to see. Unfortunately I wasn't any good with a scope at the time.

Matt

These things are full of surprises that don't make sense. Dollard has some good comments on the old Borderland video with Peter Lindemann and Mike Knox's demo.