"Tuna Can" Rodin Coil as Piston Engine?

[Governmeant]

Or... better yet, this idea could go far as a conversion kit for traditional combustion engines.

[Governmeant]

I really like your idea, tinkering is the way it is done. Good job!

Just a thought... what about putting a separate tuna can coil on the bottom in opposition to be the return for the piston action? that would complete the cyclic action.

[criticalberto]

your looking for the wrong purpose try to use the coil as a propulsion system think of space as two magnets one on the top and the other on the bottom if these magnets dont move so that meens that whatever is trying to move them is going to be prepelled use a cilinder type coil and keep the thick to one end .

[divermike2009]

mybe it's just me but what is the point in trying to use electrical energy to drive a piston when it would easier to use that energy to directly drive the wheels. just seems to me that your using a sledge hammer to crack a nut.

[morpher44]

@divermike2009

I was experimenting with all the various things I could do with the thing. The purpose here was to show versatility ... not that this solution is optimum. The experiment was interesting to me at least. The vibrations you could make with the fields feel odd.

[madhacker2000]

@divermike2009 yeah, but if you use a piston powered crankshaft then you only need incidental power when each successive solenoid engages vs constant power into an electric motor. In addition you get to input the power with a high torque gain due to the angular pull on each successive piston.

[pauljs75]

How is this different than the solenoid effect in more common linear magnet motors? They also produce a piston-like action. Have you compared it to one to note how it's different?

[morpher44]

@pauljs75

I haven't done that comparison -- no. Rodin has made some claims about this coil shape. I agree with you that it would be good to do such a comparison.

[SinistaMace]

You can get more piston effect from the magnet stack by increasing the displacement in the design of your coil. Make a rodin coil with an extended cylinder and the displacement increases just like displacement in an internal combustion engine. Even at the low oscillation this design can store a lot of energy in a flywheel...

[kjbaran]

Have you tried putting a spherical mag in the center? It should revolve with the flow of current I believe. I figured one could drill a hole through its revolving axis and insert an axle.

[ssgjsg]

wow,it sounds just like a mechanical piston

[gatekeeper1006]

Great video

Very interesting and informative

Thanks

[Anothercoilgun]

September I decree is the official month of Rodin Coil.

[hhoforvolts]

Add a 8 electronic sequenced virtual camshaft and you have the NEW V8

[IceStorm5555]

Play a sound file insteed of just pulsing it , its exactly a speaker :)

Best Regards,

IceStorm

[Cloxxki]

Even more interesting for GM than moving a piston might be to turn a shaft. Pistons are the start of inefficient shaft totation, me thinks?

Anyway, great that ypu're conducting this research. This is just one alternative coil. I bet similar, more complex ones could follow.

[m3sca1]

the worm-strange scope shot for sure!!!

[harpbloke]

amazing scope shots ! and feeling the pilses in your muscles, now thats different.

great work

[morpher44]

it could be my imagination ... but the feeling is that there is a certain hard to hit resonant frequency that you can feel vibrate your muscles in your arms. There is iron and magnetic on the body that may respond to these fields ... and like a voltage spike on resonance .. perhaps there is a magnetic field spike that goes off-the-charts ... briefly. I cannot keep it on that frequency .. only go past it.

[morpher44]

iron and magnetite I mean...

[harpbloke]

hmmm, maybe you need some other signal going in that fluctuates the first signal at that point, across the variable resistor somehow....i supose thats way to complicated and to early into this experiment....