Hello Joseph;
Been following these and with great interest.
I have a few questions that perhaps with all the board searching and googling I may have passed them up.
Have you tried having the coils on the inside and the Magnets spinning around them around the outside of the coils but still inside of a cylinder?
I have been gathering up the need "stuff " to try one of these.
I am going about this is a "let's see what we can build with what we have" mentality.
Here's what I've come up with.
several hundred feet of 20 ga wire. hundreds of CDs and institutional size metal cans.
The wire I will work with and by using a little math magic decide the number of turns and length to come up with the closest setup including the air gap.
I have decided to use the metal cans as the backing due to the fact that I can get these all day long from my wife's work.
The magnets I have are ceramic 2"x1"x1/2" , I'm using these for the simple reason is that I have ~300 of these.
The 20 ga wire, I scored from pulling broken electric weed wackers from the trash and unwinding the wire carefully. the wire is in near perfect shape and all there for the taking. I even have the neighbors dropping off their old ones in my yard with a note to have fun:--)
They know that anything I do is safe and will give back to those who help me out.
Also, instead of having a simple wing or air foil type I plan on getting around the City's rules by having the pole no more than 40' high with the "S" type wings up at the top with the gen set at the bottom.
Thoughts?
Would love to try out with NEOS but don't have any left and this is a junkyard trial, just for the see what we can do with what we have.
Bruce S