Recent content by Dustin

Sorry, I realized how silly and overkill this would be for my needs. (and expensive). I rewrote the statement to reflect what I'm really wanting to know.

I really appreciate all these constructive responses. I suppose I have one follow up question. Is there any information, or any 'law' that I can look up that deals with the relationship between the strength of the Eddy currents as it relates to the mass of the conductive metal? If instead of...

I apologize, but I may be misunderstanding you. I'm a layman on the subject of magnetism. The magnetic rotors that they were using in their aluminum separators were literally made of block magnets glued to a pvc pipe and they were just spun around. There are no wound coils. Even product videos...

@kuruman - I loved that video! Thanks! Question for you: When you mention the magnet tube (which is either a chain of cylindrical magnets or stacks of ring magnets) you said to alternate their polarity as you stack them, is that right? So, something like this image below? I made this image real...

Hello, I have four questions. As it stands now, I don't have the necessary materials to test this myself, which is how I'd prefer to learn the answer. I still plan on doing this experiment for fun once I can acquire the necessary components. This deals with Lenz's Law. My goal is to maximize...