Hi Theb3e,

Welcome to the club.
Nice and successful motor, IMHO.
Could you tell us more: the diameter of the coil wire and the passive resistance (ohms) of the said coil?

Best

Thanks for the positive feedback guys, Thanks for the tip about rectifiers & caps, gives me something to try next. I told myself if I can make it work with stuff thats laying around the house, then it might be worth throwing money into. This "No Frills Motor was inspired by chuck2na off of YouTube, I mean..if you can make a motor out of a flower pot, lol anything is possible 

Last night I thought I would try and capture some of the unused potential of the spinning rotor and added a small
generator circuit to the end of the little newman motor. It's in now way connected to the newman coil and is really a separate unit with it's
own output. The coils are wired in a counter-clockwise to clockwise configuration. It generates enough juice to power an LED but you can clearly see the inefficiencies in this design -ha.ha, the  CD is wobbling like crazy from the weight of the neo magnets and not being centered/balanced properly.. but it still works and the 9V still pumping the unbalanced load for long periods of time.. pretty interesting, this Newman motor now has 1 input power source and 2 output power sources both with different output voltages.
Does anyone here know of a Newman Motor Builders forum? I would like to take this somewhere apporopriate, my intention was not to hijack this thread..

Here is a vid showig the small generator I just added..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx0rCLUe1lg

Linda, you are right about the original video at the beginning of this thread as Not showing "positive proof". I'm not convinced it shows us anything at all, other than a guy that made a motor and stuck a fan blade on the end of it and is powered by a 12V car battery.
I myself am not convinced that you can recharge a battery with the back emf that is produced in it's unmodified state. I have noticed that when you try and charge a battery or capacitor with this pulsed signal, the battery or cap seems to take on the same characteristics. After a few hours of charging a small 6V cordless phone battery and taking some measurements, it reads the same as the voltage you are putting into it.. and it fluctuates up and down (pulsed) just like the charge you sent it.. I am pretty sure this is not good for the battery and I believe Joseph Newman even said in his early video's that batteries become damaged, not from putting such a big load on them, but rather the "back spike" is overcharging them. He sent some batteries into Rayovac I believe, and they confirmed the batteries were being over charged or charged too quickly. Mr. Newman stated Rayovac is working with him to develop a battery that will take this kind of "recharge"
So what can be done to modify the signal? So the question for me still is, can these pulses of high voltage be gathered, converted and used to recharge a battery effectively before the main power source runs out of juice?

Either way, I have noticed a few peculiar things that have intrigued me, so I will be taking this project to the next level (bigger machine). I am not the kind of guy that dismisses everything as a hoax, without doing my homework first.. so off I go! 

 

Hey Stefan..

Thanks for the tips on the rectifier circuit. I built one this evening and hooked it up to the newman motor. I used a 9V battery to power the Newman Machine which is now also spinning an extra rotor with magnets on it as a generator (not hooked up for this test) and I also put a diode inline with the positive + from the 9v battery to the coil. After the rectifier circuit I added a cap and from the cap to my volt meter, which I am happy to say now reads in DC voltage.. I was surprised to see 9v DC going into the newman motor and then rectified AC to 12v DC coming out!
I would imagine if I hook up the little generator thats built onto the side of my newman motor and rectify that signal then combine the two dc output voltages to get? .. something to try tomorrow night, pretty interesting stuff so far. If it all ends up not working, at least I have learned a little bit about electronics again..

Thanks for those tips Stefan... thanks for the Hurrah Linda..

cheers guys..