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Copper and magnet electricity generator Answered


E =( NBA ) / T

T= 3 seconds

N = adjustable

A = adjustable

B = Neodymium 1.32 T



Jack A Lopez

4 weeks ago

Well, the place where your coil goes has some area, A. You already said that.

Realistically, this coil also has some thickness, d, and thus volume, V=A*d.

We can imagine filling this coil shaped space, V=A*d, in different ways. For example, this space can be filled with a huge number of turns of very tiny gauge wire. Or it can be small number of turns of fat gauge wire.

Those are basically the two extremes, regarding ways to wind your coil.

The problem of what size wire to use, is mostly determined by how low you want the total electrical resistance of the coil to be, and that number ultimately determines how much electrical power, I*V, the coil can deliver.

Because the thing you are contemplating is a school project, the actual useful power output can be low.

In fact power output can be as low as zero, in the case where your generator delivers just voltage, with zero current.

So, I think you want to build your coil with as fine gauge wire as possible, that way you can put more turns on it, since, as you have already pointed out, the coil voltage will be directly proportional to the number of turns.

Another way to increase voltage is to make your magnet sweep over the coil faster; i.e. make T smaller. However, this thing has to be demonstrated in a classroom, so a magnet moving like a speeding bullet, might be too dangerous. Or from a practical standpoint, how do you build a machine that can move its parts at high relative speeds, without shaking itself apart?

But would it not just be easier to put more turns on your coil? Rather than figure out how to make the magnet move at ridiculous speed? I mean I think will be easier to wind 10, or 100, times as many turns, compared to making the magnet move 10, or 100, times faster.

I have another suggestion too, and that is to find a pre-wound coil. Also I have some suggestions for places to look to find this pre-wound coil.

If you can find one of those dancing-solar-flower toys, those are built around a small, pancake-shaped coil, with many turns of very fine wire.

Also the stator, from the tick-tock, 2-step stepper motor found in a 1-cell, quartz timed, mechanical clock, has many turns of very fine wire.

I think I have some pictures of these my image library, and I will link to these pictures here: