Recent content by Neight

I was actually wondering the same thing about rare Earth magnets, so thanks for posting this question. and it's not about perpetual motion :P looking into the validity of Bedini SSG motor to play with. don't care about perpetual motion, just interested in how much actual work you can get from...

I was actually wondering the same thing about rare Earth magnets, so thanks for posting this question. and it's not about perpetual motion :P looking into the validity of Bedini SSG motor to play with. don't care about perpetual motion, just interested in how much actual work you can get from...

that might just be my favorite statement i have read today, nice way to put it :)

btw... the fact that i replied in no way indicated my level of intelligence in comparison to yours :P it was a neat question that got me thinking so i waded in. most or all of what i said could be in fact quite off base, but they were generalizations of scenarios to help make the point. don't...

think of it like this... you drop a ball from a fixed position onto the peak of a two sided ramp (^) you drop the same ball from the same spot over and over and count how many times it goes one direction and how many times it goes the other direction. you can then assign a probability of how...

thanks for the warning :) I am not playing with these things lightly, which is why i am here asking questions instead of just trying random things, i have a very healthy respect for electricity, we have disagreed in the past and it didn't end up with me on my feet :P after playing with these two...

also (i should have said this first, but i was a bit sidetracked by this new bit of information) thank you very much for the input, i had looked it up, and thought that was a possibility, but i don't have a whole lot of faith in user submitted info online, (just cause someone sounds like they...

Ok, the more i learn the more sense this all makes (sounds simple enough, right?). so, if both wires were insulated, essentially i would have stumbled on a way to make a working transformer, do i have that correct? and if that does function as a transformer, how would i wire them together and...

Thank you very much for the response jarednjames, that was really the only other option besides induction, so that gives me what i need i think. btw, great quote in your signature line!

just wanted to get this back to the top of the list, cause i am still looking for an answer. i watched a video about transformers that can act like an electromagnet with no power to them when another magnet moves close to it. i am guessing this is something of what was going on, but if anyone...

thanks I appreciate you taking the time to read it and try :) I am guessing this is induction, but i am still not sure. will have to mess with it more when i get another power source to use for DC, see if i can replicate it. still searching for a definite answer

also, not sure if this matters either, but it popped in my head so i am posting it. if you put the nail heads together like i did, the wires are wrapped in opposite direction to each other. again, not sure if it counts for anything, just wanted to add anything that might be useful thanks

ok, this whole post might have been me thinking too hard about this. after taking some time to do something else and thinking more about it, i might have came up with an answer, but i would really like a bit of confirmation on this if possible. is it possible that the magnetic field from the...

no, i had actually stripped the insulation from the wire that was not connected. i was checking to see if there was a difference between an electromagnet wrapped with insulated wire and un-insulated. by chance the nearest thing i had to pick up was the nail i had wrapped with un-insulated. i...

Hello, I have a question from some playing i was doing with an electromagnet. I made a simple electromagnet out of a nail and some small gauge wire (not sure of the gauge). I wrapped another nail with some un-insulated wire of the same gauge and left it un-connected to any power supply. I...