Is this possibile to do with a alternator?

DreamChaser77

A friend of mine sent me this link over from Youtube. I really doubt it a lot... But the numbers from that meter keeps telling me other wise...

Basic idea: Added more and more layers of Neodymium magnets to improve the supposed "output". From 10W to 40W as he claims.However, the meter shown in the video ONLY measures the voltage in the system... W= I X V

If this is truly possibile please give me a detailed explanation how this is possibile?(I honestly doubt it woud its possibile)

A lot of wind turbine generators claim to produce a fairly good output with permanent magnets and with very low rpm's it can give out a very good output.


NOTE*: IM NOT INTERESTED IN PERPETUAL MOTION OR ANYTHING THAT RELATES TO THAT, OBVIOUSLY MORE INPUT IS APPLIED TO THE ALTERNATOR*

sophiecentaur

Something you don't mention is the mechanical power that needs to be put into the alternator. From your figures, I would suggest that the engine supplying the power would need four times as much fuel per hour. Nothing magic, it's just that the alternator can transfer more power - just like another, entirely different alternator might. I suspect that the windings may get hotter than they were designed for - with possibly four times the design current going through them.
How does it work? If you have more magnetic flux then the induced voltage would be expected to increase at any given rotation speed. But it will be 'harder' to turn the alternator.

DreamChaser77

I don't mention the details and all please check out the link...

sophiecentaur

I started looking at it but got bored with the presentation and the irrelevant start.

Is it just a modification? What was the point? If he isn't making a proper comparison then it's a waste of time.

What sort of comments do you want? You ask if it's truly possible but is 'what' truly possible?

DreamChaser77

Well, he modified the output by adding more and more layers of permanent magnets and increase the output voltage. He used the same mechanical input over and over again and the only thing that changed was the output I thought that was a bit weird wasn't it? Adding a few more sets of magnets would increase the output?

I'm asking that adding more permanent magnets into the generator's rotor would increase output power with the same input mechanical energy that is rated at (800 rpm). Thats what he is calming.

sophiecentaur

I didn't see him doing any measurements of the power supplied or of the efficiency of the system, before and afterwards. It is not difficult to make an alternator with really low efficiency and then improve it.
It was obviously fun to do but the experiment was so sloppy that it proves nothing and the results, which were claimed to be odd, don't need 'explanation'.
You have to ask yourself why the Ford Motor Company or General Motors don't just do the same, if it's as easy as he seems to claim.
I have seen faith healing, a lamb with a human head and over unity power generation on You Tube movies. I'm inclined not to believe any movie I see, without some backup evidence or authority.

DreamChaser77

So far I've concluded that he has increased efficiency of a system and increase the power output by only increasing the amount of magnet and true there isn't much evidence to back him up. However, from what you're saying it nothing new and many people have done it before so I can increase the output of an alternator's "current" by increase the amount of efficiency and one method is increase strength of the permanent magnates in that alternator to add MORE force on the coils to supply more "current".

I try to research this more and more not on Youtube obviously because its enough they have over 1000+ videos about perpetual motion and non-sense like that and free-energy that they understood wrongly.

sophiecentaur

All he has demonstrated is increasing the output power. He hasn't measured power in so we can't even be sure of the efficiency.
All things being equal, if you increase magnetic flux, then the induced emf at a given speed would go up. But that says nothing about the power situation. There's just not enough info here to discuss seriously.
But you can be sure that there are no challenges to basic theory - just some increase in a quantity in an experiment.

jim hardy

Whatever portion of the magnetic flux is made by the "permanent magnet part " of the field does not have to be made by the "electromagnet part" of the field.
So he saved a tiny amount of the electrical energy that's fed into the rotating electromagnet that is the alternator's field.
I would guess on the order of a watt.

Rest assured the electrical power output from the alternator remains less than the mechanical power input to it.

DreamChaser77

there was no electrical energy inputed to the electromagnets? Mechanical energy was fed to the rotor that had permanent magnets attached.

The of the video is this: Increasing more permanent magnets to the system would increase the OUTPUT with the same INPUT as before. And the input is ONLY mechanical using the screw drive to drive the rotor. What his showing is only the volt meter increasing its voltage by increasing the amount of permanent magnets to the rotor. 10W to 20 to 30 finally 40W
the voltage is 40, so the current is 1 AM.

I was asking if this modification is correct that's all. I haven't really understood all you're post clearly if you could "dumb it down" just a bit that would be great.


And yes. The input will always be greater the the output so no need to mention that point thanks though.

sophiecentaur

@DreamChaser
You seem reluctant to accept that there is nothing 'special' about that very sketchy demonstration. Why?
There are two factors governing the output power of an alternator. One is the efficiency and one is the power input.
Having a strong field gives better efficiency than having a weak field but there are limits to what you can actually achieve because you have to have gaps in the magnets to allow movement and the inductance of the windings will limit the rate of change of current. There's nothing philosophical in this - it's just a matter of realistic design. If there happened to be room in that alternator to fit extra magnets then it clearly didn't have optimal design but was probably built to a price. (That's engineering for you)
Also, that video does not show, in any way, that the input power is the same with and without the magnets. Where is the power meter? He just attaches an electric drill to drive it. Also, it doesn't actually have a power meter on the output either.

jim hardy

I'm sorry - i wasn't able to make the video play so i assumed he had an automobile alternator. My bad. I'm havibg trouble with my video player software.

If the field was all permanent magnet, no electromagnet, then the only input to his machine is as you said, mechanical.

Mechanical power into a rotating machine is in proportion to product of torque and speed, just as with linear motion it's product of force and speed.

In English units, horsepower = 2 X pi X torque(ft-lbs) X RPM / 33,000
(the 33000 is there because 1hp = 550 ft-lbs per sec or 33,000 ft-lbs per minute)

Was there a torque meter on his apparatus?
If not then he didn't measure mechanical input power.

At a given speed voltage will be in proportion to flux,
so if he added flux by more magnets he increased voltage allright
but power out still = power in - losses so any increased output came at price of increased input torque.

Did he measure torque? Real machines are tested on a "dynamometer" which measures torque. You can make a simple one from a spring scale like the ones for weighing fish.

old jim

DreamChaser77

He had a volt meter attached to the output. The input was the same since the electric drive was rated at 800 RPM and the output changed.

So far... I can answer my own question and say that increasing more magnets would lead to a major increase to efficiency.

I got the idea well. Thanks all

jim hardy

800 RPM at how much torque?

Efficiency = output power / input power

Efficiency = (output volts X output amps / 746) / (input speed X input torque X 2pi / 33000 )

You said he had a voltmeter on output and speed was 800 RPM, so there's just two unknowns left - output amps and input torque.
Did he measure both ? If not he has no idea of efficiency.

not by any practical definition of efficiency.

Averagesupernova

So 800 RPM is mentioned but no mention of torque? Sorry, can't specify actual power input without knowing what the torque is. You can jump up and down all you want to about increasing magnets. Simple fact is that adding magnets will cause a conductor to cut through more/denser magnetic fields per rotation. I am sure you will not argue with that. Are you also realizing that the denser/more magnetic fields that are cut during power generation will cause more back torque on the alternator? Hmmm, there is where that torque thing comes into play that I mentioned. If your claim is that extra magnets will not cause more back torque then you are contradicting the claim you made in your first post: -
If adding more magnets doesn't affect input torque then why can't we continue adding magnets until the output power exceeds the input power? The truth is you can't because it goes way back to that conductor cutting the magnetic field thing where the conductor develops a back torque, EVERY TIME!

sophiecentaur

@DreamChaser
You asked our opinion but have argued against an undivided one. Why did you not accept it?

DreamChaser77

Well, he did not supply us with that information about the input torque nor the output current.

I knew there would be counter torque but never really understood it that much... All I know is if you add more magnets to the system and current is drawn from it, if there is more and more magnets there will always be more counter torque...

I'm not arguing. I want to you're opinion and understand whats going on.