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I will go back to the wikipedia article and anything else I can find. Will check Amazon tonight for books on the fundamentals of electricity, magnetism and what ever else is related. I realize now that this is way over my head but I can't stop thinking about the subject.

One more quick thought. When I went to the articles on Faraday’s Paradox some of the authors addressed the properties of cylinder magnets and the flux. I originally wanted to use ring magnets on the toroid coil but I couldn’t decide if the lines of force are locked into the magnet or would slip...

Yes, I misspoke when I described the 700 turns on the toroid coil as ampere turns. At this point they are just turns. You said it was only one turn. I’m guessing you meant one simple helical coil? As far as the amp turns aren’t they yet to be determined. A 6 volt lantern battery can supply 6 ah...

I’ve attached another illustration to hopefully better explain where I’m at in this & what I am doing. As I said earlier I am using a 5/8” X ¼” single magnet and rotating it in a counter clock wise direction. I failed to mention I was holding the magnet in my hand & also that it is an N52...

I see now that it is as important that the magnetic circuit be complete (or closed) as is the electrical circuit. Mother Nature is very hard to fool. I still don't understand why I get a couple millivolts potential in one direction starting from the leads of the coil and then a couple millivolts...

I’ve been giving this more thought and I understand that a toroid coil locks the flux inside the coil. In the illustration I have a “N” pole on each side of the coil. I believe the magnetic dipoles inside the toroid coil realign themselves with “S” poles attracted to the two external “N” poles...

Thanks very much! I needed an answer. It was driving me crazy. So I'm understanding from this that a toroid coil would not work for generation but only transformer application. Another thing that I didn't mention was that I also tried this with north field on one side of the toroid and south on...

I built this DIY generator on the thought that the flux from two north poles of a magnet would be attracted to an iron core of a toroid coil. I wrapped the 4 inch OD toroidal coil with about 700 turns of 27 awg wire. The toroid coil is stationary with the magnetic flux rotating around the coil...