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Uploaded by on Jun 30, 2009

This is my TOP CHARGER with a hanging top that is suspended from a small neo magnet. In this video I show the circuit that I am using and how the new top works. Xenomorph is the person who came up with the idea of suspending the magnet rotor and it works very well.

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  • Hi Lid a question how the bifilarcoil is wounded up? Tnx

  • mochiam---The bifilar coil is 75ft. of 26 ga (drive)and 200ft. of 30ga(trigger) wound together untwisted. I use the radio shack stuff and just wind it up on one of the spools that comes in the package. The core is just small nails and epoxy. I have used this simple coil on many sucessfull projects.

  • Lid great explanation on the circuit keep up the great work cheers from mtl !

  • megavox----Thanks.

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  • If you can run at good RPM , and connect the shaft (screw) and the magnet to a wires like this watch?v=hXbFfMBW97A, you have an extra ennergy (homopolar generator de palma´s N MACHINE

  • This is similar to regenerative acceleration.

  • Ha ha! I looked at your recent activity. A juicy search would be "741 application notes."

  • Wow! You are some kind of mind reader. Thanks for the explanation of what I am going to attempt. That is exactly where I'm headed. I will have to do some research on the 741 opamp like you said to understand what is going on. More learning----but fun.

  • The easiest the better. Thanks Lid always a pleasure

  • "That means that the 741 amplifier will output a voltage to fire the electromagnet to keep the voltage at its + and - imputs at zero."

    A clarification: It's the DIFFERENCE between the + and - inputs that the feedback circuit will work to keep at zero volts.

    An opamp is simply an amplifier with super high amplification between the + and - imputs. That's all it can do. The trick is to feed back the output signal back to the - input with resistors to "tame the beast" and get your desired gain.

  • You may want to read up on the 741 opamp. You can configure it with resistors akin to a 555 timer. You can use it to add and subtract and multpily voltages, which are computer functions again but being done in the analog domain.

    There are literally thousands of uses for it and if you poke around you may find something useful. For example using it to amplify a tiny pick-up coil signal using it as a comparitor. The opamp output could fire your main transistor with very sharp on/offs.

  • So this is effectively an analog computer on a single mission, to keep the object suspended at a fixed distance from the electromagnet. If the object is too high, the analog computer servos back using negative feedback to lower it to the set position. If too low then the negative feedback operates to raise the object. Sometimes these systems can oscillate up and down around the set position and need to be damped to stop the oscillation. Power steering in a car works the same way.

  • Hey Lidmotor, if you are going to build the Cyberpcb Levitron project based on the 741 opamp it should be great. You are basically building a servo controller system based on negative feedback. That means that the 741 amplifier will output a voltage to fire the electromagnet to keep the voltage at its + and - imputs at zero. The Hall sensor feeds a voltage to the + input and the 741 output is massaged and is fed back to the - input.

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