EdMcClullough2

This little motor's rotor is on 1 3/8" and like I said, the shaft is made from a toothpick. I used (4) 1/8" rare earth magnets.

And I used one of my home made reed switches. I worked out a way to get the glue to hold them on by drilling two small hoiles in them, then the epoxy works like rivets. Here is a pic so you can see how I make them. The small one is the contact side and the one with the tin strip soldered goes behind it and when the magnet passes the tin it is pulled in to the contact side to close the circuit. It works real good. Like I said the first motor runs at around 2-3000 rpm's and this little toothpick motor runs around 4-5000 rpm's. The rotor is so light I had to work with it becasue it was flying up like a helicopter before it would get to full speed.

As you can see in the pic. I added a little extra mag.wire behind the first coil and maid a extra coil behind the run coil just to see what would happen it was about 25' 22 ga. . I used 52' 24 ga. wire for both on the main coil and wound it cone shaped again . I then wound 60' of 30 ga. on top of the cone. it seems to work like a transformer or a Tesla coil and picks up power when the magnetic field collapses as the reed switch cycles.

The volt ohm meter is set at 200 vac for all the checks . As you see I only get 0.7v for the 25' of 22 ga. wire it is connected to the red LED

The green LED is connected to the 60' of 30 ga. wire that is wrapped over the regular cone wrap. I went completely over the total cone instead of stepping it back for every layer like winding the cone.

As you see here I get the best voltage from the regular winding 52' of 24 ga. I used the same wire for the both sides of the coil on the main winding it is connected to the yellow LED. I'm running the motor with two 6v lantern batteries in sires to get 12v dc @ 6amp. as you see for your self I get 13.3 vac while I only use 12v dc. OU ? NO when I switch over from the battery to the output power the motor stops. While the voltage is there I don't have the amp's would be my guess.

As you see I set the reed switch over at the side this time it worked like the last motor It changed speed as I move the reed switch so I waited to glue it till I found the right spot when I got the best speed then I glued it down but I guess a person could make it so you could move it if you needed to change speed. Well I had a lot of fun making it and it would make a good science fair project for some kid if they should like to go for it.