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Some of you guys may well see this device and notice that many elements of today's experimental methods are incorporated within it - that is the idea.
It's a high voltage generator, from a 6V, low current power supply.
The name is derived from 'fan' and 'generator'. I believe 'fangen' is a slang term for awesome, cool, great and that it means collect or catch in German.
After reading up on and viewing YouTube videos of Ed Leedskalnins' Coral Castle work, I linked that with Imhoteps' Bedini PC fan, my own White Crow pulse motor ideas and many other techniques, that could be implemented quite easily at zero build cost.
The device meets the intended aim of delivering HV from a small power source and is to go forward with wireless energy experiments, single wire rectifying, magnetic resonance work and much more.
It's a PC 12V fan, with drive electronics remaining to power it from 6V, with which it revs to a good usable speed due to inertia from the magnets and no fan blades.
6x neodymium magnets surround the fan rotor and, because the internal weak magnet material has been left in situ, enables the magnets to be attached and moved readily...they just clip to the sides and remain in those places under power spins. Once the correct placements have been ascertained then standard superglue will hold them in place.
There is a 24V relay inserted into one side of the fan casing, this is the fired coil.
A Hall sensor (DN6851) was taken from another fan and forms a Hall sensor based coil collapser. Collapsing the coil just before a magnet reaches it was part of RomeroUK's work. In this case, a 2SC3200 very standard NPN transistor handles the switching output of the Hall sensor and shorts the coil at the correct moment. Simply holding the sensor to the side of the casing allows finding the best spot...superglue can again be used to hold that position.
There is a small neodymium magnet at the rear of the coil.
Operation below and above 6V shows less efficiency. At voltages lower, the circuit runs erratically or not at all. At voltages above, there appears to be no significant extra HV output.
The magnets are derived from old CD-Rom drives, there being 2x neo's in the laser assemblies.
Current used by 12V PC fans is typically approximately 130mA at 12V. I would welcome a replication that could show the actual figures of DC power used and AC power output.
Performance details:
Without the coil collapsing, the output is barely strong enough to light an LED to medium brightness,
Without the coil magnet on the back, the output is insufficient even with coil shorting, to light the neon bulb.
With the coil collapse effect and magnet on the rear of the coil, all heck breaks loose
HV generation occurs at the merest RPM, right from the beginnings of device spin up.
The magnets are arranged NSNSNS. If all face the same direction, they halt the operation of the motor.
Output, from my lackluster Sperry SP-6A meter, appears to be 8V AC at 25ma, yet it lights the neon and there is a very noticeable kick of AC if a finger shorts the coil output.
The Hall sensor trigger indicator LED also performs as BEMF guard for the 2SC3200 transistor Collector output, for the returning spike of HV.
A video uploaded yesterday showed a bizarre effect of a heartbeat effect. That is something that Ed Leedskalnin replication machines seem to have a trait of. I fully presume the heatbeat within the video yesterday to be a low voltage condition...but this project did indeed go on to run very well and to run as intended..be born and grow as it were. The LED/Hall sensor section and the fan were two seperate circuits at the time, connected only via their shared power leads...yet the heartbeat oddity came from both.
I have no schematic, but do hope that the FanGen fires up some peoples imaginations at least...and would aim to produce a schematic. However, i'm historically poor at such things and would welcome those of experience to draw one up, if the circuit and effects are deemed worthy.
Attached are a couple of pics. One shows it generating HV and the second is of the rotor and magnet placings..
Here is a video of this first FanGen in operation.
YouTube - ‪FanGen - HV generator‬‏
Some of you guys may well see this device and notice that many elements of today's experimental methods are incorporated within it - that is the idea.
It's a high voltage generator, from a 6V, low current power supply.
The name is derived from 'fan' and 'generator'. I believe 'fangen' is a slang term for awesome, cool, great and that it means collect or catch in German.
After reading up on and viewing YouTube videos of Ed Leedskalnins' Coral Castle work, I linked that with Imhoteps' Bedini PC fan, my own White Crow pulse motor ideas and many other techniques, that could be implemented quite easily at zero build cost.
The device meets the intended aim of delivering HV from a small power source and is to go forward with wireless energy experiments, single wire rectifying, magnetic resonance work and much more.
It's a PC 12V fan, with drive electronics remaining to power it from 6V, with which it revs to a good usable speed due to inertia from the magnets and no fan blades.
6x neodymium magnets surround the fan rotor and, because the internal weak magnet material has been left in situ, enables the magnets to be attached and moved readily...they just clip to the sides and remain in those places under power spins. Once the correct placements have been ascertained then standard superglue will hold them in place.
There is a 24V relay inserted into one side of the fan casing, this is the fired coil.
A Hall sensor (DN6851) was taken from another fan and forms a Hall sensor based coil collapser. Collapsing the coil just before a magnet reaches it was part of RomeroUK's work. In this case, a 2SC3200 very standard NPN transistor handles the switching output of the Hall sensor and shorts the coil at the correct moment. Simply holding the sensor to the side of the casing allows finding the best spot...superglue can again be used to hold that position.
There is a small neodymium magnet at the rear of the coil.
Operation below and above 6V shows less efficiency. At voltages lower, the circuit runs erratically or not at all. At voltages above, there appears to be no significant extra HV output.
The magnets are derived from old CD-Rom drives, there being 2x neo's in the laser assemblies.
Current used by 12V PC fans is typically approximately 130mA at 12V. I would welcome a replication that could show the actual figures of DC power used and AC power output.
Performance details:
Without the coil collapsing, the output is barely strong enough to light an LED to medium brightness,
Without the coil magnet on the back, the output is insufficient even with coil shorting, to light the neon bulb.
With the coil collapse effect and magnet on the rear of the coil, all heck breaks loose
HV generation occurs at the merest RPM, right from the beginnings of device spin up.
The magnets are arranged NSNSNS. If all face the same direction, they halt the operation of the motor.
Output, from my lackluster Sperry SP-6A meter, appears to be 8V AC at 25ma, yet it lights the neon and there is a very noticeable kick of AC if a finger shorts the coil output.
The Hall sensor trigger indicator LED also performs as BEMF guard for the 2SC3200 transistor Collector output, for the returning spike of HV.
A video uploaded yesterday showed a bizarre effect of a heartbeat effect. That is something that Ed Leedskalnin replication machines seem to have a trait of. I fully presume the heatbeat within the video yesterday to be a low voltage condition...but this project did indeed go on to run very well and to run as intended..be born and grow as it were. The LED/Hall sensor section and the fan were two seperate circuits at the time, connected only via their shared power leads...yet the heartbeat oddity came from both.
I have no schematic, but do hope that the FanGen fires up some peoples imaginations at least...and would aim to produce a schematic. However, i'm historically poor at such things and would welcome those of experience to draw one up, if the circuit and effects are deemed worthy.
Attached are a couple of pics. One shows it generating HV and the second is of the rotor and magnet placings..
Here is a video of this first FanGen in operation.
YouTube - ‪FanGen - HV generator‬‏
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