A continuation of video #9, video #10 demonstrates motive rotational forces using the stator arm, and explains the magnet interactions in detail. For further information about the Pipe Dream Project, please visit the Pipe Dream website: rickspipedreamproject.uuuq.com
20. May 2009 at 12:35 am
For anyone who thinks this series isn’t progressing quickly enough, or feels they aren’t learning anything, please go elsewhere and return in a month or so. I am here to teach those who truly want to learn, not to please and answer whiners and complainers.
20. May 2009 at 12:42 am
I will answer any and all questions from those who are serious about learning or have questions about how or why something works. Baseless negative comments, especially redundant and repeated ones, will be removed and unanswered.
20. May 2009 at 12:47 am
I have already put a great deal of my time into this project, and I don’t mind that, but I will not waste my time answering or debating those with a negative mindset. I have better things to do.
11. December 2009 at 4:55 am
Why have you not epoxied down the wheel magnets? This would allow for a tighter space between top and bottom.
12. December 2009 at 6:59 am
If you look at the later videos you will see that I have inserted spacers between the rotor magnets, and covered the magnets with a clear polycarbonate shield ring. The magnets can still be removed and replaced easily. In the earlier videos, I wanted to leave the magnets accessible for easy rearrangements of several different layouts I was testing, and epoxy would have made that impossible. Also, I have found that a gap of at less than 3/4 inch is not advantageous due to violent vibration.
12. December 2009 at 8:28 am
But your violent vibration was due to the wheels axle being not sturdy enough to maintain equilibrium? Could an additional magnet below stabilize this? actually you could use the other HD magnet to achieve this, correct?
12. December 2009 at 6:20 pm
The vibration occurs because there is a pulsing effect as the rotor magnets pass by the stator magnet. You alternately have brief periods of high magnetic interaction, and then low interaction. Beefing up the rotor, axle, and suspension would allow a slightly closer gap, but the pulsating effect would still be there and even more pronounced. The added weight and expense of a beefed up unit would also be a negative factor. A gap of less than 3/4 inch is really not desirable or necessary.
12. December 2009 at 6:30 pm
I do plan to use a second, and probably third, stator magnet later on, which would be out of timing sync with the current one, but they will not be used in any way that would counter magnetic interactions of the current stator.
12. December 2009 at 8:20 pm
Ok, so in the end this is a generator, how will you be transmitting power to make this usable?
I have watched all 25 and looking forward to the rest but what is your desired outcome, it seems multi-faceted. What are the applications? And Why this design?
12. December 2009 at 8:47 pm
For the generator section, magnets will be attached to the backside of the wood flywheel seen in video 17 through 19, and will induce a current through air core pickup coils which will be utilized to keep a battery or battery bank charged. I designed the Pipe Dream apparatus so that it would be easy and inexpensive to replicate, while affording experimenters a wide variety of potential uses, which are only limited by one’s imagination.
12. December 2009 at 9:06 pm
The apparatus can be used vertically or horizontally, and can stand in 5 positions. Both sides of the wheel can be utilized, and the wooden flywheel can serve as a base for mechanical gravity wheel engine experiments if desired. The apparatus is also well suited for Bedini wheel, pulse motor, and other experimentation. I would encourage you to build a replication and start in on some of your own ideas. Complete builder’s plans are available free of charge at the Pipe Dream website.
12. December 2009 at 9:08 pm
For a link to the Pipe Dream website, please see the info area for this video.
13. December 2009 at 3:13 am
K, Thanks for explaining! This is a very flexible apparatus then.
I do have my own plans for a double helix wind turbine, from bike wheels to a PM generator. I’ve been looking into other peoples projects to see if there are viable short cuts and if maybe I’m missing something in my plans.
Great videos, once again and Thanks for your patience in answering my questions. Very instructive too!