Originally posted by liber63
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For the coil, each rotor magnet passage represents one cycle of generated voltage. Imagine a sinewave cycle. The strength (flux) and the speed (RPM) of the magnet determines the height of the waveform thereby the rms voltage according to Faraday's Law. The RPM also dictates the frequency, number of cycles per second. Doubling the number of magnets will double the frequency but, at first glance, should not affect the height of the waveform cycles (rms voltage). Doubling the frequency will affect the impedance (increase for inductive circuits).
Another telling test would be to look at no load voltage from a single strand coil both ways and see if it is the same. If it goes lower, like by half, then I think it safe to say that the issue is with flux reduction. It could be that fully populating the rotor has altered the magnets' flux paths where much less flux links or cuts the coil.
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