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chevyiron420

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leedskalnin flywheel
« on: August 04, 2008, 09:14:52 AM »
the only pic's of this thing i can find are very poor, but it looks like it has 24 pole pieces and 12 bar magnets on each pole. how do you guy's think the bar magnets are aranged on each pole? what do you think it was for? i cant see any windings on it. what do you think is missing?-phil

Koen1

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2008, 03:13:13 PM »
Can you please provide a link to that picture you mention,
and to any additional information relating to this,
as I have never heard of "Leedskalnins flywheel" at all,
and have no clue what you're talking about...

chevyiron420

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2008, 09:56:45 PM »
im sorry, it was kinds stupid to assume everyone would know what i was talking about. in fact this possibly shouldnt be posted here because some people think its a generator. go to www.coralcastle.com and check out the story of edward leedskalnin. its interesting and he had some interesting ideas about magnatism. click on the pictures and look for a hand cranked rotor made out of a flywheel. if it was for generating electricity it would seem to me one would have a difficult time cranking the thing with any load on it.-phil

gyulasun

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2008, 11:35:25 PM »

If you mean this picture http://www.coralcastle.com/img/ac-generator1.jpg  then you may as well have included the link into your first or second post here...  What prevented you from doing so?

chevyiron420

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2008, 12:28:18 AM »
when i typed in the name of the web site i didnt know it would automaticly become a link. i am fairly computor ignorent. i want to thank you so much for bringing that up for everyone to see. i hope it makes you feel good. if you have no interest in the topic why post?-phil

tishatang

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2008, 04:25:49 AM »
Hi all

Here is a link that you may find interesting"

coralcastlecode.com

I can't access it from China right now, so I don't know if it is still active?

Tishatang

Michelinho

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2008, 07:49:11 AM »

What I think it is?

It is a hand cranked generator that he used for charging his batteries, making his magnets and for strengthening his chains and hooks by magnetizing them. I read his 3 booklets on magnets and found precious tidbits throughtout. He was of the Old Guards, a brilliant man lost in love.

Take care,

Michel

exxcomm0n

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2008, 07:55:58 AM »
@ tishtang

Interesting site!
I can get to it and am checking out it's content now.


As to the generator, I think it could be humanly powered, but not for a long time.
But then Leedskalnin had that nifty perpetual motion holder that could explain being able to hold quite a bit of generated electricity for use at a later time.

Maybe there were a couple of things he didn't print a pamphlet for?

Michelinho

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2008, 08:00:24 AM »

Another fascinating thing about this rotor is the use of the magnet stacking method side by side reversed polarity at each row. With smaller cheap magnets, he placed them to amplify the magnetic field and boost efficiency. Brilliant man, poor man. They all end up the same, forgotten.

Take care,

Michel

chevyiron420

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2008, 08:36:48 AM »
at first i thought each pole was made of 12 magnets, but now i count 10. so do you think they were stacked five verticly north and 5 south up against each other? i read that one guy thinks the pickup coil had some kind of north and south arangment that made it easy to crank? i also read that he used it to generate some kind of frequency that levatated the stone blocks. one of the interesting things i read was that his hoist with tripod was no were neer heavy enough to lift some of the blocks and even if it was he couldnt movethem to where he needed them to be. so how did he move all that stone around. plus he up and moved the whole joint 10 miles and re erected it, by him self.-phil

Michelinho

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2008, 01:55:59 AM »
 You stack the magnets with their natural attraction position. 1st row  ns/sn   2nd row sn/ns   3rd row ns/sn the whole block becomes a virtual large magnet and the magnetic flux is comprised of loads of magnetic vortices that are more efficient than one big magnet. The magnetic field viewer sheet doesn't show you the final effect, you need a precision Gauss meter to map the resulting field like Howard Johnson did  in one of his paper. When two or more virtual magnets are mounted on a rotor, they segregate in North and South poles arrangement by themselves. It is not a well know effect as most people try to stack their magnets with identical poles together but the chaos in the vortices drop the efficiency of the resulting virtual magnet. 

He probably used air core coils to do away with the cogging or he found someway of warping the magnetic flux away from the center of the coil to concentrate it on the coil windings for a longer period of time. One way could be to use a Pyrolytic Graphite plug in the core (used in levitation) and that would work better with a virtual magnet. (Pure speculation that could make sense) ;D

I don't know how he used it or could have used it to lighten up his coral blocks but I am pretty sure he used the magnetic fields to strengthen his chains and holding blocks. First thing to get the coral blocks lighter is to dig them out and let them dry, you lose nearly half the weight from evaporation of this very porous material and in Florida, the water table level is near the ground level so they are naturaly filled with water or very wet to start with. I would have to go through his lifelong junk collection to find out what he used that could have done the trick. Remember what you learn in books about magnets is only the evident part and they did screw that up too, what they show you in school is not wrong but not right either. Magnet effects are still shrouded in mystery for most.

Leedskalnin was able to visualize magnetic fields , that I am sure.

Take care,

Michel

Walter Hofmann

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2008, 11:55:40 AM »
at first i thought each pole was made of 12 magnets, but now i count 10. so do you think they were stacked five verticly north and 5 south up against each other? i read that one guy thinks the pickup coil had some kind of north and south arangment that made it easy to crank? i also read that he used it to generate some kind of frequency that levatated the stone blocks. one of the interesting things i read was that his hoist with tripod was no were neer heavy enough to lift some of the blocks and even if it was he couldnt movethem to where he needed them to be. so how did he move all that stone around. plus he up and moved the whole joint 10 miles and re erected it, by him self.-phil
here are a few pic what I took
greetings
walt

Walter Hofmann

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2008, 12:00:26 PM »
here are a few pic what I took
greetings
walt

Walter Hofmann

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2008, 12:01:11 PM »


here are one with a cigaret box for size comp

dolomo

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Re: leedskalnin flywheel
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2008, 01:18:15 PM »
how do you guy's think the bar magnets are aranged on each pole?

go to
http://www.code144.com/

and watch the video, there is the magnet configuration shown. At about 3:30 of 51:22 minutes of the video.