Motorised Wimshurst Machine
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Quarantine allowed me to finish a project that I started years ago: Hooking my early 1900's Kaiser Electric Motor up to a transformer and lineshaft to allow it to drive my Wimshurst High Voltage Spark Generator.
Oh yeah, and I scrapped my lathe in the process, too xD
Enjoy!
This is awesome man. And well filmed too!
Once you have a Jacob’s Ladder as well, you can go scavenge body parts and make your monster. As Dr Frankenstein would say “It’s Alive!”
Shoelace wire covers, your attention to detail is always a pleasure to see.
If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well :)
Pausing at specific frame is to see the arc is quite difficult! xD Well done!
"Gone they are!" That's precious!
I had a brilliant engineer who worked for me (I am now retired). He was an electrical engineer who's specialty was in electric motors and motion control. Just for fun he built a Wimshurst Machine completely from scratch. He demonstrated its operation at our company's engineering day celebration. It was amazing and it of course functioned as successfully as your !!
Thanks for the interesting video. Your skills and attention to detail are what keeps me coming back to your channel; not to mention the Model A Ford stuff. Partial discharge (corona to some) is a delight to see in low-light...
All this just to make sparks. That's brilliant :)
A beautiful motor proving the saying that “they don’t make ‘em like they use to” and it has been waiting a long time for your touch to bring it back to a useful life in your very wonderful ‘contraption’! (Great work & hoping the A is coming along)
Cool project Adrian!...I am always intrigued by older scientific devices...great show and wonderful to follow your renovation of the components. I have an early electric motor I picked up years ago because of its beauty...now waiting for some early device to power as a show...Your project is great inspiration.
You are one of the coolest mechanical engineering guys! ❤
Interesting nice antique motor great job making it look fresh. Controlling power. Thanks for the video.
thats a brushed motor right? i doesnt need an ac capacitor to run right?
I really love those old motors! Awesome project!
Thanks! This motor was originally intended to power an "Orchestrion" - a conglomerate of piano, organ, drums, violins and other musical instruments coordinated by punch cards.
@@AstraWerke Interesting, i have seen pictures of those organs. I have a large generator i want to restore but i am not sure if it is too far gone to be functional again. I kind of collect old school small industrial motors when i stumble upon them for a good deal, they are always good to have at hand and easy to repair compared to those cheapo chinesium ones, and look so much better! When i calculate on it even an old motor from the 1920s shall have above 90% efficiency so i think it's a myth that old motors consume much more power in correlation to the output in fact i think a cheapo made one with insufficient amount of copper and to thin material will waste away a lot more power than the old ones, it's just that they have a lot more weight then the newer ones but that's not a problem once it reach the acceleration point for the rotating mass, i think they where made that way on purpose in order to even out load variations and eliminate spikes.
I guess you like to live dangerously!😜
This was a fascinating little build (minus the drama with the lathe, of course!). I love the overhead pulley system. It makes it look like a 19th century factory setup.
I'm glad you have the system for discharging the Leyden jars. I imagine they store a pretty hefty voltage.
Of course, everyone with an AM radio within a radius of 5 km knows when you fire the thing up!🤣
Well, as a kid I tested it out - it zaps you pretty good, but it's not enough to knock you off your feet like a taser.
Glad you enjoyed :D
Now, there are two things around here:
(1) "What is it with me and the bearrings?"
It is obvious. You are going to get married with a bear soon. The ring is already there.
(2) Corona is not just a virus
Is it truly coincidental that after Your corona quarantine there is now a corona in Your machine?
Thanks for this video. It brought me back some memories from my school time and especially the physics lessons.
It was back in 1975 and I had constructed my tesla coil. I have no idea how usual it was to build those at that time since there were no social media. The local library was a place to find information. We were three friends who built one for each.
So our teacher asked us to bring one to the school for demonstration. She was uaware how powerful those units were. Mine had four PL504 power pentodes in paralle driving the output. 500W is a total overkill but it yielded a 700 mm arc :)
After the "demo" the teacher was really upset and she arranged confiscation of all three units and tried to arrange us a ban to the library :)
you must be a nuclear scientist by now?
ich liebe deine arbeit du bist so akkurat...🤩👍👍👍
I am very interested to know how you balanced the rotor. Maybe a separate video? From a fellow Model A owner 1930 Deluxe Roadster
This was a rather rudimentary approach using what essentially comes down to very low friction rollers. An imbalance will always get pulled down by gravity while a well balanced rotor will not show any preference to stop in a certain orientation. We used putty to determine the weight and position needed, and then I machined a steel piece to fix in the same spot (since steel looks nicer than putty).
There will be some extensive dynamic balancing coming up in a future Model A video, however.
Tolles Video!
Danke :D
Hello, nož related to tiha video but wanted to ask. I bought a klopp 550 shaper some time ago and am in the process of restoring it. I can’t figure out how to adjust the eccentric mechanisms for the horizontal feed. Could you give me some advice. Thanks in advance.
If you're talking about how to adjust the feed depth per stroke, there's a wedge shaped piece riding on a rail which the feed mechanism engages into. Depending on how far you slide the wedge forward or back, you get more or less feed depth.
The wedge was missing on my shaper - maybe yours is, too. I made me a new one right here: ua-cam.com/video/5txYXekKG2I/v-deo.html
you should make an electrostatic motor and power it from the wimshurst machine and connect them together into a self running machine!!
Did you build the Wimshurst yourself?
Electrostatic motors are wayyy much easier to build than a Wimshurst machine
Have you done it?
Was macht die Dampfmaschine unter Dampf ? habe ich etwas verpasst ?
Stillstand... Der Kessel ist immer noch zum Brünieren und bevor mein Auto nicht läuft, kann ich auch den vernickelten Kleinkram nicht abholen...
@@AstraWerke Bevor Langeweile aufkommt, wie wäre es einen Pulso Motor mit deiner Ausrüstung zu bauen :))
@@pr191148 Über Langeweile kann ich zurzeit tatsächlich echt nicht klagen xD
Oh schau, Schmuck!!