NTL a few days back you posted about problem with the 6 slot motor conversion.
I had the same problem when I tryed 6 curved magnets with the 6 slot motor. It makes sence. Those magnets like staying exactly centered on those slots. It allmost took a pipe wrench to turn the thing.
Last year during the VSs debate I rewound one of these 6 slot motors. I used 4 curved NEOs on the armature. I was able to spin the shaft with just my thum and forfinger.
I never finished all 6 coils. I just wound one coil for each phase. It will hold 2 coils per phase. BTW these things are very easy to rewind. However its not neccesary.
Just seperate all the coils and reconfigure 3 phase, what ever style you like.
I figured if you have a 120 volt motor rated at 10 amps as many of these are. That equals 10 amps at 20 volts per coil. Wire the coils in perelell Via a fullwave rectifier per coil could provide 60 amps top end. Might take a bunch of RPM to get that?
I was using the old #29s. They are a littel wider the your curved NEOS so I'm not sure how the cogging will be with the narower magnet?
Here a couple pictures.
This is the stator rewind.
The magnets are not below metal or in a slot. The armature end cap is plexi. The green is the pop bottle heat shrink trick.
JK TAS Jerry
