Re: Single shaft motor - Ed Wingate?

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Original poster: "Bob (R.A.) Jones" <a1accounting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

 Sorry Terry  I know its off topic but I will be brief

> Original poster: Edward Wingate <ewing7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
> Of course it runs! It runs on AC or DC, it runs in either direction and it
> will run whether the shaft is brass, aluminum, steel or any other metal.
> However, it won't self start and isn't very effecient. Mine draws 68 amps
> at 2 volts.
>
> I don't agree with the thermal expansion explanation. Too slow.
> Electromagnetic interaction between the rotating balls and the races makes
> more sense to me.
>
The explanation I saw was thermal expansion.
The current flow at the contact points heats up the contact points to form a
small hill.
Any motion causes it to roll down the hill either direction.
As it rolls down the side of the hill,  the side of the hill now becomes the
contact point which heat ups and expands.
The other side of the hill cools and shrinks so the  hill moves in the
direction of motion.

I think of the moving hill as an expansion wave that lags behind the motion
very similar to the way a surfer rides a wave.


Robert (R. A.) Jones
A1 Accounting, Inc., Fl
407 649 6400