Solenoid engine

Homemade from bit of scrap

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• engines
• solenoid
• homemade
• mechanical

[logyscott]

Any idea of the max RPM?

[djones8826]

With 12 volts, around 650 rpm. 18 volts will produce 1040 rpm.

[Khwartz]

Hi, could you make the same video again, but with in sight the whole path oft he wires, because it could have alternative command for the solenoid: we see the departure of the battery, and arrival on the system, but not between, otherwise nothing to trust if not seen :/

[djones8826]

I made the engine as a gift, so I don't have it to video.

I can explain how it works. I hid the wires for cosmetic purposes. the wires are in grooves cut in the bottom of the wood base. They run from the screw terminals to the micro-switch ,under the brass cover on the side. the switch is activated by the cam lobe on the crank. From the switch, they run to the solenoid through the brass tube, between the head and the base. It is just a simple schematic of a switch breaking a circuit.

Thank you

[djones8826]

I'm sorry. I made each piece myself, no plans, no kit.

[djones8826]

Yu are quite right. It is nothing more than a novelty, an idea, a gift to my Dad. It was also a lot of fun to machine.

[ishysweetboy]

you got some kind of an oiling system to the piston ? :)

[TheFuggedaboutit]

So what do solenoids do?

[RobbieKalsbeek1981]

@BrandonShayMusic Right. And with that translation of power you have loss in power.

[BrandonShayMusic]

@RobbieKalsbeek1981 My attempt to further this conversation: I think I understand basic quantum field theory (barely, lol). I know you can't have over-unity. If it takes x amount of energy from human motion to produce x+n amount of "output", all that shows is a translation of energy in terms of n (disregarding the parameter). On the surface, It's pretty much like creating energy from nothing, but it's not actually since the energy was merely shifted to a different quantum state. right?

[sinaloa8738]

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[RobbieKalsbeek1981]

@BrandonShayMusic You will always have to put energie in a car. Human or other that is not important. You need enrgie like food, you use your energy for your car so you have no energie left to get food. You have no food so you dont have energie for the car :)

[BrandonShayMusic]

@RobbieKalsbeek1981 Sure, i've looked into building a DIY Solar panel as well as a DIY Wind turbine (the ladder is much more effective w/o a lot of expensive machinery). What I mean is, hypothetically if you use human power, couldn't you have it translate, and amplify through a generator? So kinda like, for lack of a better term, "super-leverage" I mean i'd be so down with flinstone style cars where you use a pedal but it operates a rotory magnet engine.

[RobbieKalsbeek1981]

@BrandonShayMusic That is indeed the case. If you want to save you could better use a windmill or solarcollectors.

[BrandonShayMusic]

@RobbieKalsbeek1981 so your telling me, using any form of engine or generator will actually increase your electric bill, since it takes more electricity than is being supplied? I mean if that's the case i'm totally off base.

[RobbieKalsbeek1981]

@BrandonShayMusic To make energy you have to use more energie to make it.