Rotor Switching Sensors:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_speed_sensor
- Hall Effect Sensor
- Reflective Optical sensor
- Laser Point which reflects to light sensor system
- Optical Gate Sensor
- Optical Encoding
- infrared slotted photo interrupter
Plastics For Frames and Rotors:
Clear See through
Good breakdown link
- Polycarbonate – Lexan Sheet (more bendable, stronger, 2-3x more expensive)
- Acrylic – Plexiglas (more brittle)
Opaque
- Phenolic Plastic
- Nylon
- HDPS
- UHMW (polyethylene) * current contender for rotor
- PVC
- PPCP
Possible Kits:
Switches:
- Reed Switch
- Ultra high speed mercury contactor
- FAST Electromagnetic Relay
- IGBT vs SCR vs Transistor vs MOSFET vs etc….?
- solid state FETs controlled by a microprocessor
- SIDAC – explanation Bidirectional Thyristor Diode…Now(latey) there is REAL semiconductor type spark gap using SIDAC + IGBT (source)
Vibrators:
- Mallory Vibrator
- http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mallory+vibrator
Capacitors:
- Electrolytic
- Polypropylene – for High Voltage applications
Spark Gaps:
General Retailers:
- Newark – Largest online retailer of all generic electronics stuff
- Information Unlimited – All things unusual pertaining to exploring
- Syscomp – Fantastic Pocket Oscilloscope & Custom Waveform Generator with UI
High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) or Room Temperature Superconductor (RTS) – Magnet Wire
General Info Sources:
- Awesome Real Time Circuit Simulator by Falstad
- https://www.circuitlab.com/
- How a Vibrator works – Youtube
Core Materials:
Free Energy technologies may often only work when using high quality materials. Especially when magnetic fields are involved. Parametric variation utilizing magnetic fields ideally requires materials with high permeability and steep bh curves, where the domains in the material can flip quickly allowing for a rapid collpase of the magnetic field as well as subsequent build up and collapse without slow-saturation doing any retardation.
Ideal Materials:
- Amorphous Materials such as Metglas
- Nanocrystalline cores / Powder Cores – Nanoperm
- Mu Metal (only in thin sheets seemingly…)
- Electrical Steel
- Permalloy
- Ferrofluid?
Potential Supply Companies:
- Metglas
- Bridgeport Magnetics Group
- Hilltech
- Applied Magnetic Materials
- Cogent
- Vacuumschmelze
- FerroTec – (FerroFluid) … Steep BH curve…but low permeability
- MH&W Magnetec Nanocrystalline Cores NANOPERM
- Dexter Magnetic Technologies
- Custom Cores
- ELNA Magnetics
- Magnetics – Supplier, next two are distributors
- Allstarmagnetics
- MTL Distribution
- ToroidTech
- Smallwood
Understanding Permeability, Material, BH curves, etc:
- Permeability (wiki)
- Amorphous Metal (wiki)
- B-H Curves for Steel, Iron & Air
- Silicon Steels – Description
- Another Permeability materials Chart
- Proto Laminations – Custom Laminations only…good info descriptions