Homopolar Motor With Magnet (Simple Science Experiment)
Homopolar Motor With Magnet (Simple Science Experiment)
Neodymium magnets are used in electric motors all around us. From the motor that spins a DVD disc to the wheels of a hybrid car, permanent magnets are used in motors everywhere.
While there are many types of electric motors, K&J Magnetics takes a look at one of the simplest types: the Homopolar Motor.
What force makes a motor turn?
Many articles and books on this subject often begin with a historical perspective, recanting how some of the science behind electric motors was discovered. We’ll skip that here to keep things brief, but read more about Michael Faraday, Faraday’s Law, the Lorentz force and even Fleming’s left hand rule for motors for more interesting information about the history of electric motors and how they were discovered.
The science behind electric motors boils down to this: If you have an electric current flowing through a wire that happens to be in a magnetic field, it feels a force push on it.
Specifically, if you have a straight piece of wire sitting in a magnetic field as shown at right, the wire will feel a force pushing on it as shown, at right angles to both the wire and the magnetic field.
If you use the left-hand rule to help figure out the direction of the force, follow these conventions:
The direction of the magnetic field is from a north to south
The direction of the electric current is that of conventional current, from positive to negative
Homopolar Motors:-
Homopolar motors were first invented by Faraday, and is perhaps the most simple type of electric motor. It isn’t very useful because it uses very high electrical currents, has poor efficiency and a few other factors. You just can't get much useful power out of it. One thing it is good for is a great demonstration or subject of a science report.
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This is not a homopolar motor. And a "pulsed" motor is a comutated motor if the pulse is not provided purely by electrical circuity. The whole trick to this motor is that he scraped away the thin insulation from the copper wire only on one side of the wire. That creates the commutator. For one-half of rotation, there is magnetic pull. For the other half there is no current and so relies on the rotational inertia to carry the rotor through that half of the motion. The current is never reversed; it's just turned off for half rotation. That is why people call it pulsed. But really it's just a bad commutation only mechanical switching current for half rotation. Instead of comutation switching current for one direction to the other direction, it switches current from one direction to just no current for half rotation.
Hi if the number of magnet is added more what will happen to the rate of spin?
Spin will increase
How long did it spin for?
when the battery power goes low then it will stop
So simple, good working
How long does it run for?
would this work with a regular 12v DC power supply?
3v AA battery, otherwise required copper coil vending capability for 12v even magnet power.
What size copper wire
.5 meter
How long did it spin for?
While not truly comutated this is pulsed and not considered homopolar.
Yes: it's truly commutated but the dishonest man of this channel doesn't explain how. It's simple commutation: on/off line, and not double one: with echange of electrical polarities. Not: effectively this isn't homopolar at all, there is commutation.
What to do
Now I am sure
When I tried making on something like this I got sooooooooo badly shocked/burned
If you used a AA battery, then that's a lie.
How long did it spin for?
The secret is to erase an half part of the copper wire surface, by leaving intact the other half part.
It does not work
I do it but it not work
The secret is to erase an half part of the copper wire surface, by leaving intact the other half part.
🤔Does the wire have to be copper?
🤔🤔🤔same doubt
Yes
It is not homopolar motor!!! It's pulsed motor!
No working
It will work, use coated copper wire.
The secret is to erase an half part of the copper wire surface, by leaving intact the other half part.
No working.
Definitely it will work, check copper coated wire,
The secret is to erase an half part of the copper wire surface, by leaving intact the other half part.
This will not work
Use winding copper wire
The secret is to erase an half part of the copper wire surface, by leaving intact the other half part.