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broli

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Core saturation and Lenz.
« on: August 03, 2010, 02:35:34 AM »
I have been thinking about this and have concluded that it should make sense. Core saturation isn't talked about a lot in motors or generators, and if it is it's seen as a bad thing.

To cut to the chase. According to my logic when you take a core with long legs and saturate it, and then close or open a gap on the far side, the coil will be completely oblivious to it. Because closing the gap does not increase flux since the local core part has already been fully saturated. The reason why it's so far is to exclude raw interaction between the coil only and this new piece.

What this means is that the piece can enter the gap with no reaction from the coil, (and the coil can unenergize with more energy?) When the coil is unenergized the core piece is pulled out with little effort and finally the coil is energized again to reset the loop.

Does this make sense or is there some fundamental flaw in the logic?

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2010, 07:41:52 PM »
Hi broli,

I think your logic on this setup makes sense, question is the supposed gain coming from the increased permeability core is enough for maintaining the movement for the core piece?

In a sense this setup may be considered the magnetic equivalent of the changing capacitor setup where you charge up a capacitor's plates at a lower capacitance setting and then mechanically turn the capacitor plates to get higher surfaces facing, hence a bigger capacitor value than during the chargeup. It is expected that in the increased capacitance value the previous amount of charge will somehow increase... 
Somewhere on the net there was an explanation that the original energy input into the lower capacitor plate setting does not get enhanced at the increased capacitor value, the stored energy in the cap remains more or less the same.
With this I do not mean your magnetic setup would not produce any extra at all, it needs experimenting. 

I think both your magnetic and its capacitor dual circuit belongs to  parametric circuit setups.

rgds,  Gyula

lumen

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2010, 10:34:31 PM »
@Broli,

This looks to be very close to Steorn's theory of operation.

I wonder if by adding a core piece, if the additional field draw would not reduce the size of the saturated area around the coil and if this would change anything?

The idea sure seems worth formulating some type of test device.


broli

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2010, 10:45:00 PM »
In textbooks an air gap supposedly stretches the hysteresis to the right, thus reducing the overall permeability and increasing the needed applied field to saturate it. But I believe this only counts for gaps near the coil. When it's close to the core, the piece you remove to make the gap had a substantial effect on the coil but not when you increase the distance between the gap and the coil.
I predict than when inserting or removing a core piece far from the main coil would change little in the hysteresis curve. In fact I think there would be a distance where inserting and removing a core piece will have no effect anymore on the hysteresis and thus inductance/permeability.

Of course this is all pure speculation  :P .

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2010, 02:28:42 PM »
Hi broli. This is a parametric generator type. You can find some similar designs on JLN pages. He has done quite a few experiments on them. In your case the question is - can you get more, than you need, to make a parameter (permeability) change. Not so easy to do. Steorn seems to have done that, but note that he is also utilizing the rotor movement for "traditional" current generation.

broli

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2010, 02:57:25 PM »
Hi broli. This is a parametric generator type. You can find some similar designs on JLN pages. He has done quite a few experiments on them. In your case the question is - can you get more, than you need, to make a parameter (permeability) change. Not so easy to do. Steorn seems to have done that, but note that he is also utilizing the rotor movement for "traditional" current generation.

The inductance doesn't have to change to gain more energy. The gained energy can be mechanical when the core piece is attracted in the gap. When the power is collapsed it can be removed again with little effort and the power you collapse should be near equal to the input power. This is also the basis of the Lindemann attraction motor. But he doesn't mention that saturation could be a good thing or the gap distance from the coil.

So it's not per se a parametric change, rather than a mechanical change that has NO parametric change.

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2010, 02:31:08 AM »
The inductance doesn't have to change to gain more energy. The gained energy can be mechanical when the core piece is attracted in the gap. When the power is collapsed it can be removed again with little effort and the power you collapse should be near equal to the input power. This is also the basis of the Lindemann attraction motor. But he doesn't mention that saturation could be a good thing or the gap distance from the coil.

So it's not per se a parametric change, rather than a mechanical change that has NO parametric change.
Ok but how about ORBO ? You have got there both mechanical and parametric change. In your's design you want only mechanical. If Steorn barely has OU (we still don't really know if they do) then I wouldn't bet much on yours design to be OU. Right ?

lumen

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2010, 06:29:37 PM »
I think the idea, is to apply power to the coil and saturate a portion of the core around the coil. Then add additional core mass in a manner that the coil does not see any change because the coil only sees a fully saturated core.

Then when the field colapses, there is a greater return because the core is now larger. I think all these cases where core saturation occures can produce an OU condition, but it's like saying, I can give a device way more energy than it can take and now it gives back more than it should. (but never more than you put in)




broli

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2010, 08:35:07 PM »
A while ago I proposed a similar design which would operate as a generator. That design DOES operate on parametric change. I made a presentation about it which can be viewed here:

http://ziosproject.com/NJ/magPres/VIG/index.htm

lumen

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2010, 05:53:47 AM »
A while ago I proposed a similar design which would operate as a generator. That design DOES operate on parametric change. I made a presentation about it which can be viewed here:

http://ziosproject.com/NJ/magPres/VIG/index.htm

I like the concept, and it is shown to work. But then what is wrong? Is there is a problem in possibly the current required waiting for the magnet to move away that will consume any final gain?

Again this is very close to the Steorn device.  If their device was working beyond any doubt, then why would they abandon it for the yet unproven solid state device? Makes no sense to me.



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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2010, 02:03:57 PM »
Is there is a problem in possibly the current required waiting for the magnet to move away that will consume any final gain?

Yes you are right joule heating should be accounted for. I did some crude "realistic" calculation too a while ago which was posted elsewhere, here it is:

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Here's some crude calculations. First let's consider the complete charge time to be 4*L/R to play it safe.

When the magnet is at TDC the inductance of the coil is 0.1mH. Assuming we have a 30V power supply that can supply 5A then we choose R = 6 Ohm so the charge time is 66µs. Assuming we use neo magnets and our C core gets perhaps saturated 10° before and after TDC. So we give ourselves 10° of charge time. Using our time constant this leads to a constant rpm of 2500 RPM. After this 10° the influence of the magnet on the core starts to diminish, but also meanwhile current is used as joule heating. Let's assume that 45° later the magnet has no more effect on the core and the coil can be discharged. First let's calculate the joule heating energy.

given period = 45°, since rpm = 2500 time is then 300µs. Joule heat enegy = V*I*t = 0.045J.

Notice that I ignored inductive energy input and just put it as a "loss" in joule heating, I'm that confident .

So finally now we can discharge our inductor without any external influence. I took the final inductance to be 0.1H and the load 333.33 ohM. First of all lets calculate the energy of the inductor.
E=0.5*I^2*L=0.5*25*0.1 = 1.25J.

Electric wise the energy out / energy in = 27 or 2700%.

Since this needs again time to discharge. 4*L/R = 1.2ms. From our 2500 rpm rotation that is equal to 180° of rotation. So it will take 180° of rotation to discharge our high inductive coil through the 333.33 Ohm load.

And to finish it all let's look at the power generation. We know it rotates at 2500 rpm and that every rotation steals 0.045J and gains 1.25J. In average watt values this results in 1.87 Watt of loss and 52.08 Watt gain.

And that's just one example of high energy gain from this system. Many parameters can be adjusted to gain any desired cop.

However I didn't talk about mechanical losses there. But they should be minimal as the magnet saturates the core before it's fully aligned with it. This design can use multiple core setups around the wheel to increase energy output. But if you have a big inductance difference only one magnet can be used as the increased inductance will take a while to discharge.

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2010, 11:28:36 PM »
Yes you are right joule heating should be accounted for. I did some crude "realistic" calculation too a while ago which was posted elsewhere, here it is:

However I didn't talk about mechanical losses there. But they should be minimal as the magnet saturates the core before it's fully aligned with it. This design can use multiple core setups around the wheel to increase energy output. But if you have a big inductance difference only one magnet can be used as the increased inductance will take a while to discharge.

Ok, so then if I had the magnet connected to an arm that was connected to a flywheel by some elliptical gears, so the magnet would attract to the core at half the speed causing an increase in flywheel RPM, then leave the core at twice the speed which causes a decrease in flywheel RPM, then the mechanical loss would still be the same but the retraction time from the core would be half as long. (so I reason that if the exit loss is greater than the approach gain, an exit speed of 2x the approach speed would also result in a 2x exit mechanical loss)

Would the reduced exit time from the core provide additional performance on the output side since joule heating time would be cut in half also?

If so, then at what point would the mechanical leverage of the increased gearing on the exit side reach a point that any further increase in approach to exit change would increase the mechanical loss to a point where further reduction in joule heating time would no longer provide further final output gain? What would be point of maximum gain? (2x, 5x, 10x)

I'm not sure I explained this in a understandable way!


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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2010, 11:44:46 PM »
Ok, so then if I had the magnet connected to an arm that was connected to a flywheel by some elliptical gears, so the magnet would attract to the core at half the speed causing an increase in flywheel RPM, then leave the core at twice the speed which causes a decrease in flywheel RPM, then the mechanical loss would still be the same but the retraction time from the core would be half as long. (so I reason that if the exit loss is greater than the approach gain, an exit speed of 2x the approach speed would also result in a 2x exit mechanical loss)

Would the reduced exit time from the core provide additional performance on the output side since joule heating time would be cut in half also?

If so, then at what point would the mechanical leverage of the increased gearing on the exit side reach a point that any further increase in approach to exit change would increase the mechanical loss to a point where further reduction in joule heating time would no longer provide further final output gain? What would be point of maximum gain? (2x, 5x, 10x)

I'm not sure I explained this in a understandable way!

Yes the increased speed will reduce joule heating as it would take less time to reach that 45°-away-from-tdc position. However it does not increase the mechanical losses as you say. Mechanical energy is force times distance; E=F*x The equation does not depend on velocity. In your example both the force and the distance haven't changed. It doesn't matter if you were rotating at 1 rpm or 10000, the mechanical losses always remains the same for the same amount of degrees. I hope it makes sense.

The idea of variable speed is good in theory, but as you notice yourself it becomes quite cumbersome in practice. Gears would already be overkill let alone elliptical ones. Definitely not something most garage scientists can build  :P .

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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2010, 01:35:28 AM »
Yes the increased speed will reduce joule heating as it would take less time to reach that 45°-away-from-tdc position. However it does not increase the mechanical losses as you say. Mechanical energy is force times distance; E=F*x The equation does not depend on velocity. In your example both the force and the distance haven't changed. It doesn't matter if you were rotating at 1 rpm or 10000, the mechanical losses always remains the same for the same amount of degrees. I hope it makes sense.

The idea of variable speed is good in theory, but as you notice yourself it becomes quite cumbersome in practice. Gears would already be overkill let alone elliptical ones. Definitely not something most garage scientists can build  :P .

I agree that the gain to the proposed flywheel during the approach would be the same as the loss at the accelerated exit, however something has changed at TDC. The core does not decrease in magnetic field as the magnet exits and therefore has a greater attraction during the exit phase.

This would increase the exit losses, and with 2x gearing there should be 2x the additional loss.

Even at equal speed, you have shown additional mechanical loss on exit. If the core was not energized, then the exit loss should be only little over approach gain.

I have made elliptical gears for other magnetic projects and I must say they are difficult. The layout alone in CAD can take an entire day for a single gear set. I can then mill them out of Lexan sheet in a few minutes.


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Re: Core saturation and Lenz.
« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2010, 03:26:57 AM »
I dont understand it but it sound like you do so Im going to tell you something
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or 60x144,000= frequency gaps
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