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> list keelynet@dallastexas.net at 17:37:50 on 25 Jul 1998.
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> > Interesting, a magnet, attached to a spring, moving up and down to
> > induce current flow in the coil to charge a capacitor. An optical
> > switch could be hooked in so that when the magnet blocked the beam for
> > longer than a given time, the capacitor would discharge into a coil that
> > would throw the magnet back into oscillation. Just like EV Gray's high
> > voltage solenoid to drive his motor...hmm....this could damn sure work!!
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> My guess is the energy you need to move the magnet up will be higher than the
> energy you would get when the magnet moves down.
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I made a mistake here : where you find "higher" please read "lower".
---Marcelo Puhlmark@plug-in.com.br