I should have said more homogeneous that with a single magnet.
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Harry Veeder <[email protected]> wrote:
> This video shows the two magnets clearly and has Sean describing the orbo
> and explaining the significance of some lines on a scope.
> http://www.youtube.com/user/SteornOfficial#p/u/0/S5nae_I_Mus
>
> The magnetic field experienced by the torroid coil is characteristically
> inhomogeneous in time and space since the magnets are metalic discs and they
> are whizzing past the coils. For the coil to experience a homogeous magnetic
> filed, the magnet would have to be in the shape of a continuous metalic belt
> around the rotor.
>
>
> harry
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Terry Blanton <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 8:44:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication
>>
>> If you check carefully, Steorn uses two magnets to help make the field
>> homogeneous.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----
>> >> From: William Beaty
>> >> To: [email protected]
>> >> Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 4:36:48 AM
>> >> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Steorn Replication
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Craig Haynie wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > By moving a magnetic field across a conductor, don't we get induction,
>> >> > and hence, electricity?
>> >>
>> >> Not in a toroid inductor with unsaturated core. The ring-shape core will
>> shield
>> >> the inductor against fields coming from nearby magnets.
>> >
>> > For no induction to happen, wouldn't this also require that the magnetic
>> > field
>> (of the permanent magnet) be entirely uniform as experienced by the torriod?
>> >
>> > Harry
>> >
>> >
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