Another update. My machinist told me today that it is NOT the magnets in the rotor that are in backwards, but three of the opposing stator magnets. SO much easier to fix!! Should be done with that by tomorrow and can start putting it all back together.
bi, to answer your question about how could he “get it running correctly with those magnets in backwards. “ my response is this. If we just look at what is going on on one side of the rotor, there are 12 magnets that interact with the six coils. Only six align at any one time. Call these the “generator magnets.” There are also 12 magnets on the rotor that align with six magnets on the stator. These are the repulsion magnets. Only six are ever aligned at once and are only aligned when generator magnets are aligned with coils. When six of the rotor magnets are aligned with the coils in attraction, six magnets on the rotor are aligned with six magnets on the stator in repulsion. Three of those were in backwards, so When Greyland was trying to tune the machine those three magnets needed to be backed all the way off and the three that had the correct polarity adjusted close to the rotor magnets to get the “best” performance. The motor was still drawing 16 amps which is more than I claimed it would draw, because I have seen it do better, but still less than without the opposition magnets in place. That’s because only HALF the opposition magnets were doing their job. The others were NOT. It will make a significant difference in motor amp draw when he gets this fixed, which will also affect RPM and therefore generator output.
bi, to answer your question about how could he “get it running correctly with those magnets in backwards. “ my response is this. If we just look at what is going on on one side of the rotor, there are 12 magnets that interact with the six coils. Only six align at any one time. Call these the “generator magnets.” There are also 12 magnets on the rotor that align with six magnets on the stator. These are the repulsion magnets. Only six are ever aligned at once and are only aligned when generator magnets are aligned with coils. When six of the rotor magnets are aligned with the coils in attraction, six magnets on the rotor are aligned with six magnets on the stator in repulsion. Three of those were in backwards, so When Greyland was trying to tune the machine those three magnets needed to be backed all the way off and the three that had the correct polarity adjusted close to the rotor magnets to get the “best” performance. The motor was still drawing 16 amps which is more than I claimed it would draw, because I have seen it do better, but still less than without the opposition magnets in place. That’s because only HALF the opposition magnets were doing their job. The others were NOT. It will make a significant difference in motor amp draw when he gets this fixed, which will also affect RPM and therefore generator output.
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