Simple generator provides enough power to light led’s. There is no relative motion between the permanent magnets and the coil. Instead we open and close the “magnetic circuit” between the magnet and the coil, causing a change in the coil flux, which induces a voltage in the coil by Faraday’s law. Magnets are ceramic/ferrite. Coil has 1500 turns (approx 600 feet) of 30AWG copper magnet wire .
14. November 2009 at 5:05 am
Where did you find steel washers? All I can find these days in zinc.
15. November 2009 at 5:06 pm
This actually works. I tried building and I was amazed by how easy it is. If you want full step by step guide on how to build home magnetic generator, click my channel
15. November 2009 at 6:35 pm
does the number of turns on the coil matter? also the gauge?
18. November 2009 at 9:16 pm
CAN YOU MAGNETIZE AIR?
8. December 2009 at 5:14 pm
im using #30 gauge to create mine for a school project…my teacher recomended it.
10. December 2009 at 8:26 am
static electricity… you can ionize air.
10. December 2009 at 8:26 am
more turns the better. high gauge the thinner. higher the better.
14. December 2009 at 11:44 pm
well… the hinge just acts to extend the magnets field… so you are actually moving the magnet.
23. December 2009 at 4:06 am
can you post the formula you used to derive this thought? thanks again
23. December 2009 at 4:08 am
please try to get the lights to light with a smaller switch please like a thin piece of iron that maybe wind could cause it to disconnect or open
23. December 2009 at 4:37 am
Faraday’s law – Voltage is equal to number of turns times time rate of change of flux. Opening and closing the magnetic circuit creates changing flux.
23. December 2009 at 10:16 pm
thanks friend i am working on an invention for this will you please build me one of these, i need to show this to a friend. i do not need anything fancy. i just have very little time to build this myself. i know how much time it takes to wrap the coils if you can build one i will pay with paypal thanks
24. December 2009 at 6:37 am
It may not have been the best term. An example of effective insulation would be a split in the washers which interrupts the potential loop for current flow around the washers (encirlcing the bolt)
27. December 2009 at 1:04 am
where do you buy a permanent magnet
28. December 2009 at 4:14 am
Buy magnets at Radio Shack or better is ebay for the neodymium super magnets.
31. December 2009 at 5:24 am
awesome.very helpful..thank you so much.
7. January 2010 at 9:25 pm
awesome, 5 stars!
I also like the experiments with the simplest magnetic generators, and i have similar videos if interested.
22. January 2010 at 2:12 am
Very interesting, but I would like to point out that what you are doing is magnetising the hinge, so this device is still powered by the motion of a magnet, its just not the bar magnet itself.
22. January 2010 at 6:03 am
it takes energy to move that hinge…
22. January 2010 at 11:54 am
Relative motion between the magnetic “field” and the coil
26. January 2010 at 7:05 pm
What people fail to realize, is that the use of MOSFET transistors would be able to produce free energy with a 555 timer circuit. More MOSFETs = higher amperage. Bifilar or Trifilar or Quadfilar might be the way to go to get more amps too.
This is a great proof of concept. High speed switching is the solution! Try to incorporate the bedini circuit into this setup for ultimate results!!!
26. January 2010 at 7:06 pm
Forgot to add that diodes may be necessary…
A small 9V battery could power the 555 timer circuit with multiple MOSFETs, and be able to produce more than 500% unity compared to the power required to make it run. The bigger the coil and stronger the magnets, the sky is the limit!
27. January 2010 at 12:39 am
I agree. It is a demonstration of Faraday’s law… just a different form than usual.
1. February 2010 at 11:25 am
The hinge becomes a temporary magnet as it’s obviously Ferris. In effect your moving a magnet, and by extension changing the magnetic field effecting the coil. While your experiment certainly shows that you can move the hinge, and not the permanent magnet, it’s false to say that the magnet is not moving. That hinge is very much a magnet in this case.
3. February 2010 at 8:17 pm
With all the corrections on your video aside… for those of us just starting on this journey it was fun to watch.