Simple Electric Generator

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HI I am new to this website. I am looking for some one who has detailed knolege about electronics and generators.

Did you read the "Debugging" section of the article? amasci.com/coilgen/

Simple Generator project has been an extremely popular webpage at amasci.com. Science teachers have been using it for many years. If you need help, first thing to do is to read "Debugging" that tells you what to do when it doesn't work the first time.

Add a hamster to this generator.
Good for the hamster (sport) and good for you (energy).

It will lose it's perpetuum, because there is a loss of electricity along the wires, so no matter how you try it... there won't be a way to generate electricity that sustains itself.
If you try putting a bigger voltage or a smaller motor you might end up destroying it.

Yep, add a diode and a capacitor. But diodes take some volts, so you'd want to double the amount of wire. (That, or add a commutator, which is nothing but a synchronous mechanical rectifier.)

But then it wouldn't be an ultra-simple generator anymore!

you can take a motor from some old CD player or a personal fan and spin it backwards to do the same thing I used to charge capacitors this way throw em to a friend and yell catch :D

the dimensions depend on the magnet dude... think a litle bit sometimes it is good to think....

8cm square, 3.5cm thick, see the website project article for experiments and all details. Try this: put a blotch of white-out on one side of the nail, add a battery, then figure out how to run the magnets as a motor. The paint blotch will be your commutator...

i enjoyed the video and think it's great

So much for your ability to differentiate good from bad teaching videos.

> Don't do it if you aren't going to do it as well as you can.

Lol, you found my secret to attracting a large subscribership and convincing lots of kids to build their own science devices. The central thesis is:

"That video S**ks ! I could do that project MUCH better than he did."

(And then they do.)

After decades in this business I crafted an educational philosophy intended to create new scientists. It's listed on a niche on my webpage, and includes:

NOT AIMED AT THE TV AUDIENCE, NOR EVEN AT METACAFE. AVOID THE "EXPERT LOOK." Keep my degree hidden; instead do Redneck Science! Carefully preserve the look of an overweight loser in a grubby t-shirt. Blacken a tooth. Don't shave. USE NO LABORATORY, ESPECIALLY NO TV STUDIO. Perform demonstrations on a grubby kitchen counter. Or even better, on a living room couch ...in my lap, w/camera clamped under my chin.

Teachers love the polished videos, but kids avoid them and go after the crude ones. Perhaps they label and avoid the "education-y" videos which resemble homework? If so, then effective teaching involves hobbyist non-teachers giving crude presentation of coolness. (And it's no trick: if I don't dress up, and use my kitchen as a studio, the crudeness is genuine.

Another: if science projects are analogous to doing art, then a science project with perfectly detailed instructions is as un-creative as paint-by-numbers.

People who want a canned project will buy a generator kit from an online science store.

I'm sorry my message was not more clear.
What I meant was - If you are teaching people how to make something, show and teach them WELL. You can build the thing as poorly as you like, but if you're teaching/training then do it so that the student will be able to follow the instructions well. There's not a thing in the world wrong with using a tripod; no great secret in doing bad camera work. Not asking for professional work, just decent work. Good luck.

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