SinkScience #08 - Beauty of the Vortex
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Uploaded by MrfixitRick on Dec 10, 2007
Take a journey to the center of a beautiful vortex. A whirlpool is created by a magnetic coupler inside a tall CD cover, driven by the Tesla CD Turbine on faucet water pressure.
The Tesla CD Turbine is a little home-made turbine that thinks it can do anything. It's made from recycled CD's, CD spindle, neodymium magnets, and glue. It is based on the disc turbine invention of Nikola Tesla.
For more pics, videos and info on how to build this Tesla CD Turbine, see my instructables at :
http://www.instructables.com/member/mrfixits/
The Tesla CD Turbine web site:
http://www.cdturbine.com
Have a look at the Tesla for President '08 T-shirts there, too!
Mrfixitrick buys neodymium super-magnets at:
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/default.asp?PARTNER=mrfixitrick
Check out how a new understanding of magnetism will radically change our world, presented by nuclear engineer Mehran Keshe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtf5bp76ArE
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Limiting the size of your developments both in horizontal and in vertical propagating space you kill the most interesting vortex developments, namely the upper double spiral waves and the lower, beyond the bottom double spiral (see my clips about the reasonably unlimited vortex developments published under YehielGotkis
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@MrfixitRick You bitch
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Put a water proof camra in there awesome
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I love your videos! I´m also very interested this kind of things, and you´ve gaved to me so much ideas for my systems....
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gurgle, gurgle, gurgle!
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amazing
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@ReikaiDemon i doubt it, too much kinetic energy in a vortex
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I would like to make a large vortex using a 14 inch diameter x 6 ft tall acrylic tube for a children's museum. I am thinking about a variable speed motor mounted vertically with a metal bar welded to the shaft and a long cylinder magnet in the actual tube. Similar to a magnetic stirrer but obviously in a much larger scale. I would like the kids to be able to move a ball up and down the vortex with the variable speed motor. What do you think of this idea? I was thinking a 3000 rpm motor.
livetrueblue 8 months ago
@livetrueblue
Have a look at my 3 movies featuring the "Tesla Tornado" water vortex generator. I use a 6 inch by 30 inch tube to do what you suggest.
I used six magnets on spaced CD's, as the stirrer inside the tube. I used a 12 volt auto blower motor as the driver with 6 magnets in its flywheel.
My magnets use repel mode, rather than attracting as you suggest. Either way will work. I had to use a suction cup to keep the discs on the bottom.
It will suspend a lightbulb in the vortex!
MrfixitRick 8 months ago
@livetrueblue
Your idea should work. The long cylinder magnet may be a bit noisy on the bottom of the cylinder and wear on there. The magnet will have to be strong to maintain the magnetic connection under load and rpm's.
Consider making a Tesla Pump (using a set of discs like CD's) at the bottom of the tube. That way, you can be educating kids about Nikola Tesla's wonderful Disc Turbine/Pump...and recycling CD's at the same time!
MrfixitRick 8 months ago
Was there any water displacement when the vortex formed? looked like the water level stayed the same the whole time. Might be some cool science to it if it didn't raise the water level when formed.
sespear86 9 months ago
@sespear86
Yes, there is displacement. To prove this idea, see my video, "Tesla Tornado Tube Christmas Tree" with a giant vortex that "tops out" !
MrfixitRick 9 months ago
Hey that looks really cool! Beautiful with the DVD colours! But what I don't understand: you are using waterfaucetpower to turn the waterbucket. What is Tesla about that?
tessaring 10 months ago
@tessaring
Waterpower turns the discs inside the Tesla turbine, which rests under the vortex chamber. In turn, the Tesla Turbine is magnetically coupled to a Tesla Pump inside the vortex chamber.
A Tesla Turbine is unique because it has no cups or blades, just smooth discs.
Tesla patented his turbine and pump around 1909, and said in his autobiography that his turbine is "the greatest of all my inventions". See wikipedia under, "Tesla Turbine".
MrfixitRick 10 months ago