Yes, overunity.com has thousands of such people. Terry
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Horace Heffner<hheff...@mtaonline.net> wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> Terry Blanton wrote: >> >>> We built and tested the bicycle wheel pulsed motor using four NdFeBo >>> magnets on the wheel and a single stationary coil. I wanted to do >>> this since I had never seen anyone actually measure the torque of a >>> Bedini motor. . . . The best COP we were able to obtain was about 0.24. >> >> How did you measure torque -- or mechanical energy I assume. The only way >> to measure torque I know is to stop the machine, which would affect its >> performance obviously. > > Torque can be measured dynamically using strain gauges, electronic scales, > etc. However, "true" Bedini motors have a third coil that is used to > recover magnetic field energy and charge a battery as the motor runs. > Torque is not the point. One battery runs the motor while another battery > is charged, and then the batteries can be exchanged in function. COP can be > measured by measuring the amp hours of charge on the charging battery vs amp > hours of discharge on the primary battery. This is really nothing new - no > matter who's name is attached, because it is just a gazillion ways to build > an integrated motor-generator. > > This is one area that has been and apparently continues to be intensively > explored (to put it lightly) by amateurs. There is no reason to expect over > unity performance that I have seen. Still, it is neat to see so many people > doing hands on technical things. If something cool actually develops there > will be an army of amateurs ready to pounce on it. > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > > > >
