Re: Spinning Discs
Meat Truck ( (no email) )
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 08:33:52 -0500
Faraday replication via NIB-mercury post made on 09/08/98 shows that large
DC current
passed through the magnet itself can result in rotational movement of
magnet, with no damage to the magnet. I recently did more tests on ideas
concerning passing an electrical current at right angles to the field lines
through the neodimium-iron-boron alloy magnets. They readily pass current
being conductive but I noted no mechanical torque effects that might be
inferred by theory. In these tests very small currents were used compared
to the original experiment. mnorris@akron.infi.net----------
> From: Jerry W. Decker <jdecker@keelynet.com>
> To: KeelyNet@DallasTexas.net
> Subject: Spinning Discs
> Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 6:50 PM
>
> Hi Folks!
>
> The following was sent to my address and the author Nigel Howie said I
> could post to the list for discussion/comment. It is referring to the
> following comment under the thread 'Tapping the Casimir Force';
>
> http://dallastexas.net/keelynet/archive/00001611.htm
>
> Here is Nigels' experiment;
> =============
> Hi Jerry,
>
> Regarding the spinning disks, I have for some time now been
> experimenting with disks spinning at various revolutions and some
> curious results were obtained such as a blue corona around the perimeter
> of the disk when a powerful magnet was brought close to it.
>
> I have also now tried the experiment with a disk mounted on a bearing
> and seperated from a driven disk, the freewheeling disk did indeed spin
> and when the power was shut off the driven disk it slowed down and then
> rotated in the opposite direction.
>
> When the driven disk and it associated drive motor was physically
> removed, it then slowed down and stopped without showing this tendency
> to reverse direction.
>
> In my opinion the field surrounding the motor when under power caused
> the rotation in the first place and the reversing effect was when the
> motor was still turning and acting like a generator of sorts.
>
> Has anyone else tried this?
>
> N.Howie
> ==================
> You might also check out the earlier repost about the experiment with
> spinning discs and magnets as done by Chris Eccles at;
>
> http://dallastexas.net/keelynet/archive/00001639.htm
>
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