How to build a rodin coil part 1
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Be careful when touching a TV's wiring! The charge can last for months and is stored in the copper wire attached to the front it's enough voltage to kill you so make sure you discharge all of the energy from the copper wire before touching it!!! Better not to do it at all!!
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My humble theory (which I'm stuffing down everyone's throat) is that the correct geoemtry actually calls for a smaller hole relative to the overal diameter of the toroid. You'll see how the wires tend to only touch the outer half of the toroid, and only a very small patch over the edge on the inside. This creates severe interference with the expand/contract math of the Rodin theory. So however hard to do, the hole should be smaller. Wires will need to be special, or not wires as we know them...
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would a doughnut work because thats all i can find?
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What can you do with a rodin coil? looks pretty cool though
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is 36 pins based on anything?
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The plastic ledge won't cut the wire, magnet wire is pretty strong unless you use very thing speaker wire, then it might. So really sanding or cutting down the edge will just take up some time.
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There has to be something better than a plastic ring.....
or is the material better for the coils?
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Hey, I'm trying to build one around the blue donut. Mine is different. I used a compass and a calliper to measure a gap of .119" to have 144 pins around 360degrees. this gives me 16 instead of 12 while still being of Rodin origin and maths. I'm having trouble mapping the path though... any help?
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i am going to make one a car tryer size i maybe gone for some time ! will upload a very short film on it !
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Thank you SO much for this!
How do you determen the number of windings? Do they have to be in increments of 9? What about using ferrite toroid?
ebisevac 2 years ago
Depending on the wire diameter, you can do whatever number of windings you like, Rodin specifies multiples of nine, but there is no law that stipulates that you cannot experiment otherwise.
Regarding the Ferrite toroid, apparently Rodin's tests showed that using a ferrite core decreased the magnetic activity of the coil, made it inefficient, and maed the vortex weak to non existent so it is not reccomended.
magenpies 2 years ago
Un-insulated copper wire?
Hmm, I dont think that would help.
tigerbody1 2 years ago
I don't think so either as it would be like holding to bare electrodes together and shorting them. I put it in because several people have written to me saying that it was specified for the original coils. I do not know if this is correct and it doesn't seem to make sense, however if I have some uninsulated wire one day I may try it just for the heck of it, even if it fails as expected ; )
magenpies 2 years ago