Re: The Egg Works - Well, Almost

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Original poster: "Mike" <mike.marcum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Seems to work pretty good considering it's hollow. I'd think if it 
were solid it would take longer to spin up (or more power) but would 
act like a gyroscope/top. Does the egg get hot after running awhile?

Mike
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Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:52 PM
Subject: The Egg Works - Well, Almost


> Original poster: "Cameron B. Prince" <cplists@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I was able to power up the egg last night and after figuring out I had one
> pair of coils out of phase, I got it working. The egg spins up as you can
> see here:
>
> http://www.teslauniverse.com/images/egg_of_columbus/MOV00628.MPG
>
> Notice the egg spins, but never stands all the way upright. I am not certain
> whether this is due to lack of field strength or if it's caused by the
> hollow egg's poor center of gravity. I am going to wind another layer of
> 12AWG on each coil and see if it improves. I'm looking for another egg too.
>
> Here are some better pictures of the setup:
>
> http://www.teslauniverse.com/images/egg_of_columbus/DSC00624.JPG
> http://www.teslauniverse.com/images/egg_of_columbus/DSC00625.JPG
> http://www.teslauniverse.com/images/egg_of_columbus/DSC00626.JPG
>
>
> This is a schematic of Harry Goldman's driver along with a picture of his
> system he sent me:
>
> http://www.teslauniverse.com/images/egg_of_columbus/hg_egg_schematic.jpg
> http://www.teslauniverse.com/images/egg_of_columbus/hg_driver.jpg
>
>
> Gary Lau pointed out that the black cylindrical AC caps I had could be
> non-continuous duty motor starting capacitors. I confirmed this last night
> after running the egg for about 10 minutes and finding them to be rather
> hot. It does look like Harry is using these also by the photo. The silver
> MOT like AC caps run cold and I'll use those from now on.
>
> Harry was right on with the values in the schematic. I am using actually 16
> ohms, because 8 is too low and the resistors I have are 4 ohm. I do notice
> that the set of coils the resistor drives runs hotter than the coils driven
> by the capacitors. This makes me wonder if there is still too little
> resistance. More experimenting and maybe testing with a scope will hopefully
> help with this.
>
> More later,
> Cameron