Re: Magnets

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Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

I made a coil form with a piece of 1" PVC pipe 1" long with piece of 
plexaglass on each end.  The plexaglass is just to hold the wire in 
place until the polyurethane varnish dries.  I wound #24 enamel 
coated copper wire onto the coil form and coated it with urethan as I 
went.  I wound it until the coil was about 2 1/4" diameter.  Not sure 
how many turns are on the coil.  In a few days the urethane was dry 
and I removed the coil form.  The finished coil is 1.25" ID by 2.25" 
OD by 1" long. I have 2 capacitors in parallel 7400 MFD 200 VDC 
each.  I have a bridge rectifier to charge the capacitor with a serge 
current limiting resistor.  I plug it into the wall outlet 120 volts 
AC it charges the caps to about 170 volts throught the serge 
resistor.  I have a push button switch between the capacitors and the 
coil. The switch needs to be able to handle the discharge current 
from the 2 caps.  I built a homemade switch sorta like a morse code 
key.  I charge the caps then discharge them into the coil. A magnet 
will soak up the magnet field for only a few seconds and it has a 
half life of about 2 seconds.  There is a limit to how much magnet 
field a magnet will take.  I have no way to measure the exact magnet 
field or strength of a magnet all I can say is how much weight a 
magnet will actually pick up and about how long the magnet will hold 
the magnet charge.  I would assume different magnet materials will 
that a differet charge.

Be sure to place the magnet in the coil correctly.  This device will 
also reverse the magnet field of a magnet.  If the magnet is setting 
in the coil at a 45 deg angle the magnet field ends up being at 45 
deg angle in the magnet.  This is how the manufactures that make 
magnets charge a magnet.  When the metal is formed into a magnet 
shape it has not magnet field until it is charged.

I have been trying to think up some experements to do with a Tesla 
Coil using magnets.  About all I can do is experement and see what happens.







-----Original Message-----
>From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Apr 17, 2007 6:58 PM
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Magnets
>
>Original poster: Carl Cone <clc555@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Would you please tell me, how you made your magnitizer. Did you use
>copper or iron wiring. Or other.
>Also,what was the power source. E,I.
>Do you remember the name of the movie. Sorry I missed some of the
>chat. Was very busy and just didn't look good enough. Carl
>
>