response to mikec_ut
re: induction compass
Actually most of them "didn't" have a spinning magnet.
Rather, just a spinning coil. The Earth's magnetic field was
used with the spinning coil to generate a small amount of power
to move the needle. No magnet necessary ... its FREE ... the Earth's
field. Hendershot was trying to use pre-magnetized cores --
or little magnets -- to give a TRUE North reading ... and so he's
one of the guys attempting to put magnets into this invention...yes.
re: coil towards the nose of the plane
No that coil is definitely wound lattice style .. and NOT
basket weave. For basket weave, you would need vertical pegs
around the cylinder to wind into.
In the picture you can almost count the turns on the outer layer.
I count 5 or so downward sloping wires along the LEFT side.
Definitely "lattice" style. Interesting that the Barry Hilton
material doesn't call out that these side-mounted solenoids
are to be honeycomb. Hendershot's model looks pretty "neat".
He may have just wound those that way too to make it pretty.
They are a nice coil winding style -- less self capacitance.
It has a small number of turns of thicker plastic covered wire,
20AWG, maybe 12 turns or so. These likely have iron cores.
These solenoids don't look like they are very big. My guess
would be they are no bigger than 1/2 inch diameter spools,
5/8 inch tall. I make the plane's wheels to be bigger than you.
I'm thinking 3 1/2 inch diameter wheels. The NUT on the wheel
is probably a standard 5/8 inch nut.
The bobbin coils inside the structure of the plane look to me to be
about the size of sewing bobbins: 1 1/8" diameter, 1 3/4" tall.
re: Hendershot's Knowledge
I have started to realize I shouldn't be thinking in terms of
resonance and radio so much... and rather should be thinking
in terms of magnetic fields, and solenoids, and currents....
He probably experimented quite a bit with induced currents
and the solenoid's magnetic field to current relationship is the
important one to master. The number of turns would be
completely dictated by things related to RPMs, field strength,
current in wires, etc.
re: Coils L19, L22, L25
Good idea about this being an amplifier. I had that thought too.
He seems to have this pattern replicated over and over again almost
FRACTALy. Coil spinning one way ... some other coil in center oriented
a different way ... coil spinning the other way. His technology here
is to use this STRUCTURE to amplify the effect. Yes.
This is a MAGNETOMETER structure ... and induces current when
the fields in this structure are "imbalanced". Notice how one coil
is CLOSE and touching the central bobbin coil and the other is not.
There is an intentional imbalance here -- no symmetry.
That works!! I tried it... You can induce power this way ... if you
have a steady pulsing waveform to bring your cores almost saturated
and back again. Remember this predates transistors, so we want
to use the BH curve here for amplification ... similar to transistor.
re: honeycomb coil.
Well, I see your point about it possibly NOT fitting in the pully coil
in the motor. That steel pully might be a 3in diameter, which FITS
the dimensions. You could wrap a coil around it in the honeycomb style.
I'm not sure how he would do it. Perhaps by attaching wodden dowels
as spokes around both flat surfaces, wiring up the coil, gluing it,
then removing the dowels.
This coil could be THE working coil to drive the motor... since
there is no other except the one on the pully. Interesting that
this honeycomb coil has TWO layers ... one going CW ... another
(I speculate) going CCW. They "buck" in other words ... with the
magnet-in-coil wired BETWEEN them.
I like this idea ... although another possibility is that the honey comb
coil is UNDER the motor .. UNDER the cock-pit and between
the left and right solenoids that we see in the front side there.
I remember toys of that time period would be connected
to CORDS. The child would stand in the center and by pulling
or releasing the 2 cords, they could control the plane to make
it go up and down as it spun in a circle. I wonder if this model
was intended to be used this way ... or if it was just a thing
the boy could push around on the ground with a spinning prop.
It seems that 1800RPM would be a little child "unsafe" w/o
parental supervision.
I can't see this producing very much power unless there is
high-velocity SPIN of that motor. 1800RPM is 30Hz. We need
to be creating waveforms at around that speed (or faster).
Also, it amazes me there are no capacitors. Barry Hilton
does mention there may be other parts of the circuit we don't
have the "page" for. There MUST have been capacitors too --
I'm speculating.
Originally posted by mikec_ut
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Actually most of them "didn't" have a spinning magnet.
Rather, just a spinning coil. The Earth's magnetic field was
used with the spinning coil to generate a small amount of power
to move the needle. No magnet necessary ... its FREE ... the Earth's
field. Hendershot was trying to use pre-magnetized cores --
or little magnets -- to give a TRUE North reading ... and so he's
one of the guys attempting to put magnets into this invention...yes.
re: coil towards the nose of the plane
No that coil is definitely wound lattice style .. and NOT
basket weave. For basket weave, you would need vertical pegs
around the cylinder to wind into.
In the picture you can almost count the turns on the outer layer.
I count 5 or so downward sloping wires along the LEFT side.
Definitely "lattice" style. Interesting that the Barry Hilton
material doesn't call out that these side-mounted solenoids
are to be honeycomb. Hendershot's model looks pretty "neat".
He may have just wound those that way too to make it pretty.
They are a nice coil winding style -- less self capacitance.
It has a small number of turns of thicker plastic covered wire,
20AWG, maybe 12 turns or so. These likely have iron cores.
These solenoids don't look like they are very big. My guess
would be they are no bigger than 1/2 inch diameter spools,
5/8 inch tall. I make the plane's wheels to be bigger than you.
I'm thinking 3 1/2 inch diameter wheels. The NUT on the wheel
is probably a standard 5/8 inch nut.
The bobbin coils inside the structure of the plane look to me to be
about the size of sewing bobbins: 1 1/8" diameter, 1 3/4" tall.
re: Hendershot's Knowledge
I have started to realize I shouldn't be thinking in terms of
resonance and radio so much... and rather should be thinking
in terms of magnetic fields, and solenoids, and currents....
He probably experimented quite a bit with induced currents
and the solenoid's magnetic field to current relationship is the
important one to master. The number of turns would be
completely dictated by things related to RPMs, field strength,
current in wires, etc.
re: Coils L19, L22, L25
Good idea about this being an amplifier. I had that thought too.
He seems to have this pattern replicated over and over again almost
FRACTALy. Coil spinning one way ... some other coil in center oriented
a different way ... coil spinning the other way. His technology here
is to use this STRUCTURE to amplify the effect. Yes.
This is a MAGNETOMETER structure ... and induces current when
the fields in this structure are "imbalanced". Notice how one coil
is CLOSE and touching the central bobbin coil and the other is not.
There is an intentional imbalance here -- no symmetry.
That works!! I tried it... You can induce power this way ... if you
have a steady pulsing waveform to bring your cores almost saturated
and back again. Remember this predates transistors, so we want
to use the BH curve here for amplification ... similar to transistor.
re: honeycomb coil.
Well, I see your point about it possibly NOT fitting in the pully coil
in the motor. That steel pully might be a 3in diameter, which FITS
the dimensions. You could wrap a coil around it in the honeycomb style.
I'm not sure how he would do it. Perhaps by attaching wodden dowels
as spokes around both flat surfaces, wiring up the coil, gluing it,
then removing the dowels.
This coil could be THE working coil to drive the motor... since
there is no other except the one on the pully. Interesting that
this honeycomb coil has TWO layers ... one going CW ... another
(I speculate) going CCW. They "buck" in other words ... with the
magnet-in-coil wired BETWEEN them.
I like this idea ... although another possibility is that the honey comb
coil is UNDER the motor .. UNDER the cock-pit and between
the left and right solenoids that we see in the front side there.
I remember toys of that time period would be connected
to CORDS. The child would stand in the center and by pulling
or releasing the 2 cords, they could control the plane to make
it go up and down as it spun in a circle. I wonder if this model
was intended to be used this way ... or if it was just a thing
the boy could push around on the ground with a spinning prop.
It seems that 1800RPM would be a little child "unsafe" w/o
parental supervision.
I can't see this producing very much power unless there is
high-velocity SPIN of that motor. 1800RPM is 30Hz. We need
to be creating waveforms at around that speed (or faster).
Also, it amazes me there are no capacitors. Barry Hilton
does mention there may be other parts of the circuit we don't
have the "page" for. There MUST have been capacitors too --
I'm speculating.
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