FINALLY! FINALLY! _(I won't even explain myself, cause this is too dam intelligent)_ THANK YOU magnificent students. Thank you. Intelligence without imagination is always lacking in design. I hate seeing intelligent people without the necessary imagination to achieve greatness. These students had the required greatness needed. I love it.
Hi guys, could some one explain, why do you need to many capacitors and rectifiers?. Won't plugging the coil into the 120v AC circuit already do the job? Thanks! @Dorian Mclntire
The device sends thousands of amps into the coil for a brief period of time (almost a million watts). The energy to produce the large current is obtained from the capacitors. The rectifiers convert 120 AC into 600 volts DC to charge the capacitors.
@@DorianMcIntire hmmm thanks for the reply, I'm doing this for a physics project, I saw a guy who just took a coil and attached it to a live wire and back on UA-cam. Would there be an issue w that or is that also fine? Thansk so much for the help!
A multistage system might do the job but a single stage system would destroy the object it was launching due to the extremely high accelerations required to reach the required speeds.
The reason the aluminum ring flies so well is the coil induces hundreds of amps of current into the coil due to aluminum's low resistance. I suspect not much would happen with salt water since salt waters (ocean water) conductivity (4.8 S/m) is millions of times less conductive than aluminum (35 million S/m). This means that only a fraction of an amp will flow through a salt water ring under the same conditions.
@@DorianMcIntire Great points. I already suspected much of them. But a ring of salt water could be much say 1000 X thicker × 10 X wider than the aluminum rings you used. Certainly the magnetic field also quickly tapers off with distance. And while the mass of all that salt water certainly wont lift, i am still interested in inductive magnetohydrodynamics, and what kind of impulse thrust is possible or how much of the energy can be inductivly transfered into thrust.
@@DorianMcIntire it just occured to me that water also has a high dielectric constant, its shape is deformed in the presence of an electric field, as the charges on a dipole are pulled apart and later relaxed the movement of charges aught to generate their own magnetic fields. I think ill have to get a piece of paper and track how they may interfere, constructivly or destructivly.
FINALLY! FINALLY! _(I won't even explain myself, cause this is too dam intelligent)_ THANK YOU magnificent students. Thank you.
Intelligence without imagination is always lacking in design. I hate seeing intelligent people without the necessary imagination to achieve greatness. These students had the required greatness needed. I love it.
Hi guys, could some one explain, why do you need to many capacitors and rectifiers?. Won't plugging the coil into the 120v AC circuit already do the job? Thanks! @Dorian Mclntire
The device sends thousands of amps into the coil for a brief period of time (almost a million watts). The energy to produce the large current is obtained from the capacitors. The rectifiers convert 120 AC into 600 volts DC to charge the capacitors.
@@DorianMcIntire hmmm thanks for the reply, I'm doing this for a physics project, I saw a guy who just took a coil and attached it to a live wire and back on UA-cam. Would there be an issue w that or is that also fine? Thansk so much for the help!
would a similar circuit, albeit properly scaled up, be capable of launching an object into orbit?
A multistage system might do the job but a single stage system would destroy the object it was launching due to the extremely high accelerations required to reach the required speeds.
that seems like it would be cheaper than rocket science. you should make a pitch to nasa
Do you have more schematics and such? I am trying to replicate it and need help doing so.
www.circuitlab.com/circuit/93v3597bw32e/screenshot/1024x768/
Thank you very much. And for the inductor, how many coils did you wind up and what was the guage of the wire
Also what kind of material was the disk you used?
One flat coil wound with #16 - # 14 solid enamel-covered wire (magnet wire) with about 25 turns.
The disk is an aluminum platter disk recovered from an old disk drive.
How do you get 120v batteries?
The unit was powered by AC. I'm not aware of where you can get 120v batteries except by connecting lower voltage batteries in series.
While a salt water ring is less conductive, lowering the amount of current that flows, i still would like to see what a ring of salt water can do.
The reason the aluminum ring flies so well is the coil induces hundreds of amps of current into the coil due to aluminum's low resistance. I suspect not much would happen with salt water since salt waters (ocean water) conductivity (4.8 S/m) is millions of times less conductive than aluminum (35 million S/m). This means that only a fraction of an amp will flow through a salt water ring under the same conditions.
@@DorianMcIntire Great points. I already suspected much of them. But a ring of salt water could be much say 1000 X thicker × 10 X wider than the aluminum rings you used. Certainly the magnetic field also quickly tapers off with distance. And while the mass of all that salt water certainly wont lift, i am still interested in inductive magnetohydrodynamics, and what kind of impulse thrust is possible or how much of the energy can be inductivly transfered into thrust.
@@DorianMcIntire it just occured to me that water also has a high dielectric constant, its shape is deformed in the presence of an electric field, as the charges on a dipole are pulled apart and later relaxed the movement of charges aught to generate their own magnetic fields. I think ill have to get a piece of paper and track how they may interfere, constructivly or destructivly.