Neo hard drive magnents

[taylorp035]

I have currently 6 neo hard drive magnets that have been extracted from the drives with a great amount of energy.

I was wondering about how many total magnets i would need to make my self a homemade alternator.  The windmill would have a 5 foot diameter and I would like achieve 12 volts.

Any suggestions?

[kurt]

a crapload of them Google search the board for hard drive magnet and such search terms it has been done but it takes a mountain of hard drives.

[Capt Slog]

I looked at going that way when I first started a couple of years ago.  I had a LOT of hard drives, and as you , expended a large amount of time and energy getting them out.  The trouble is, they are never JUST the ringht shape or size, and finding a lot the same is difficult too.  The older chunky looking HDs, the ones that look the size of a lunchbox, have some very nice ones in, but I think finding those is rare

I came to the conclusion that hard drive magnets make very good magnets for hard drives, and saved myself a lot of headaches by buying some nice neos.  I know that people have used them, but it just wasn't for me.

The ones I did recover are now used for holding notes to a glass window partition in the office (the glass has that chicken wire reinforcing in it).

[tecker]

Keep collecting and stack em up

[electrondady1]

you have enough for one pole.

[Bruce S]

The newer SATA drives have much bigger mags in them Western Digital seems to have the thicker of the bunch.

I have also noticed while taking them apart, that the wire for the heads is now aluminum rather than copper.

The good part is that you can get a pretty penny for the Aluminum casings.

Cheers

Bruce S

[GlutealCleft]

If you can find some old SCSI drives, those have the largest.  I took the magnets out of some old 4.3gb SCSIs, and could not believe the size of them.

[taylorp035]

The harddrives that I have are the huge SCSI 9 gb models with 10-12 platters and 1.6 inches tall.  The magnents are about 1.5x.75x.375.  Hope this helps and thanks for all of the support.