Stubblefield coil magnet spinner.ASF

This is a partially built Lasesaber/Stubblefield coil running a magnet spinner on a mirror. This not the same coil that was in my last video. That one died in less than a day. No "Energizer Bunny" here I'm afraid. The zinc coating on the steel wire breaks down quickly and when that happens the battery part of this device becomes very weak.

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Science & Technology

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• Nathan Stubblefield
• pulse motor
• energy
• electronics
• galvanic battery

[honda4004]

hi would epsom salts soaked on your battery have the removal of oxidising like they are saying it does in lead acid batteries to revive them..no expert at all just trying to suggest melvin

[Lidmotor]

@honda4004 ---Epson salts?? Now that is an idea. Thanks. I will have to look into that.

[rroge5]

maybe it is being destroyed because of it being short circuited, batteries hate being short circuited

[Lidmotor]

@rroge5 ----Unfortunately the pusle motor required that the one end of the coils be connected in that way to run. Remember that the other end of the coils are left open so there is no dead short. It is the interaction of the two coils laid side by side that makes all this happen. There is a resistance between those two parallel coils as they interact in the water electrolyte. I have this running a Joule Thief now and it is lasting longer.

[kfstevens2370]

@Lidmotor I thought about trying that one too with the magnesium and carbon rods but after seeing his how to build NS video part 5 I saw the carbon rods just sitting in a jar near his work bench. I wonder if they just stopped woring? Why are they in that jar? I may still try it but no updates of this 6volt air battery yet form lasersaber. I'll bet it's a short term effect as well.

[abramrk1]

If it stops working change the tape , and make it tight , the problem is once it first dries the cotton takes less room and need to be tighter , that is all .

Electrolyte additive at that point can help but it will not solve it . wetting it will not bring it back up if it loosen .

You really need to try it !

[VideoVegetable]

Hi Lidmotor. Sorry to zinc coating on the steel wire breaks down too quickly. Have you tried bare Iron wire? I thought the patent mentioned such. Nice to see the 1/2 inch bolt worked better than the soft iron.

[Lidmotor]

@kfstevens2370 ----These things do need to be damp but not wet to run. When I took then aluminum wire coil apart the wire simply broke into pieces. The chemical reaction had done it's thing and disolved it. After this Stubblefield coil project Lasersaber built a battery using carbon rods wrapped with magnesium that worked very well. They use only the humidity in the air to work. I will build one of those next.

[kfstevens2370]

@Lidmotor I wonder if your first coil just dried out too much. You tried AL wire and had the same problem? Did it build oxide or what? Why would that not work?

[Lidmotor]

@Americankettler -----This is same wire that Lasersaber used. I also tried several other types and got absolutely NO results. At least this one ran for a little while. What I really wanted to see is if you could get this battery to magnetize a core ----and it did.