nope, wouldnt be enough travel to have any notable effect with the amoutn
of ferrous mass on that, but would perforate cell walls

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 1:05 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wouldn't your weapon also pull the nails out of walls and thereby collapse
> all the buildings?
>
>
> On 11/7/2019 2:00 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>
> this got me when i was kid and built a wire coil magnetizer. I burned up
> my model train power supply. the little details like enamel coating are
> what get you. I spent so many hours perfectly winding that coil too. I can
> never have that time back. i think that may be the point in life that i
> became jaded. had that not happened, i would probably have grown the
> process to the degree that i was able to build my emp weapon that displaces
> the iron atoms in the human body, shredding humans where they stand and not
> damaging structures. The world would have bowed to my will..... those tiny
> details ruin everything
>
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 1:24 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If Radio Shack still existed, you could pick up a spool of “magnet wire”,
>> thin stuff with enamel insulation.  26 or even 32 AWG should be fine for
>> lighting an LED.  Mount that cardboard tube on a lathe or drill and put a
>> whole bunch of turns on it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Faraday’s law says voltage should be proportional to number of turns
>> times rate of change of magnetic flux.  Size of cardboard tube doesn’t
>> explicitly show up in that equation, but I think Bill is right, because if
>> you visualize the flux lines from the magnets, they would only factor into
>> the equation if they loop around the coil of wire.  If the coil is too wide
>> or too long, some of the flux lines will stay inside the coil or will cut
>> through it rather than looping around the ends.  The too long problem is
>> not as big of a problem  because it just means the dropping magnets will
>> include voltage for a longer time interval.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
>> *Sent:* Sunday, November 3, 2019 12:38 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Induction coil voltage
>>
>>
>>
>> The diameter of the tube and the size of the magnets will also affect how
>> much voltage you get out of the thing. Try to minimize the air gap around
>> the slug/magnets as much as possible. Use a smaller diameter tube or a
>> larger diameter slug/magnets.
>>
>>
>>
>> bp
>>
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/3/2019 9:51 AM, Adam Moffett wrote:
>>
>> I'd bet I have 20-30 turns of 16ga wire....that's just what I happened to
>> find first.  I could tear apart some CAT5 and use the 24ga inside so I can
>> get more turns in the same area.  Or I can find something with a
>> transformer inside and unwind the super skinny wire on it.  I just don't
>> know to what extent I need to go to make this thing work.
>>
>> And yeah it's not obvious in the picture I sent, but you're supposed to
>> connect the two LED's together short leg to long leg so that one of them
>> lights up when you drop the magnet North first and the other lights up when
>> you drop it South first.
>>
>> I'd wondered about the length of the pulse too.  It's a cheapo digital
>> multimeter.  It does not read the same on each drop of the magnet.  When I
>> say it read 30mV that's just the highest number I saw after several drops.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/3/2019 12:40 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>
>>
>> I would think yes, although it seems the electrical pulse will be very
>> brief and I’m not sure you’ll be able to measure it with a meter.  Also
>> have you determined the polarity of the DC generated or tried hooking up
>> the LEDs both directions?
>>
>> In any case, I’d think wrapping the entire length of the cardboard tube
>> with wire would make the LEDs light up for a longer time and be more
>> visible.
>>
>> How many turns do you have on it now?
>>
>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> <[email protected]> *On
>> Behalf Of *Adam Moffett
>> *Sent:* Sunday, November 3, 2019 11:20 AM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] OT: Induction coil voltage
>>
>> I wanted to do this science experiment with the kids.  My problem is my
>> LED's don't light up.  It's from a discontinued textbook.  Apparently they
>> sold a kit with the materials for all the projects, but that's no longer
>> available so I'm scrounging in the garage.
>>
>> I put a volt meter on the rig and I was only getting 6mV when I dropped
>> the magnet. I doubled the number of coils on the tube and then doubled the
>> number of neodymium magnets and I'm getting closer to 30mV now, but I need
>> closer to 2V to light up an LED, so I'm wondering what would increase the
>> voltage by two orders of magnitude.  Is it based on the number of turns in
>> the coil?
>>
>>
>>
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