ELECTROSTATIC MOTOR #1

This is my first static motor that worked really well. My earlier designs always had a bad wobble to them. AT first I thought it was a balancing issue, but if they were spun by hand they would rotate up to five minites or more with little or no wobble, so it had to be a electrical problem. I learned more about this wobble in R.A.Ford's book on his work with static motors. He had come up with way to dampen this wobble in his design and I tried it on my, it didn't work. After several tries I found a wobble damper that worked. I think the wobble is caused by REACTION time in the rotor (rotor is a dielectric) when the rotor has to change polarity as it rotates past the electrodes. I think the damper rotor (top rotor) reduces the reaction time of the bottom rotor because the top rotor carries a conductor plate with it. Because the top rotor is always opposite in polarity of the bottom rotor at any point between the two rotors and the very short reaction time of the conductor plate, forcing the bottom rotor to react faster, thus reducing the wobble effect. The conductor plate can also be called neutral. BOB

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