"Tuna Can" Rodin Coil as Piston Engine?

In this video I explore pinging the coil from 6Hz to 30Hz and create a piston effect using a stack of magnets. This is a very fun experiment. It feels weird ... its hard to describe.
Replicate this if you have the time and post your video as a response.
I also show a strange crawling WORM effect with the ringing... I can't explain that.
I've never seen anything like it.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Rodin
• Coil
• Piston

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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 .

[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...