THE HOMOPOLAR HANDBOOK GENERATOR
THE HOMOPOLAR HANDBOOK SERIES

THE HOMOPOLAR HANDBOOK GENERATOR

It consists of a cylindrical conducting disk immersed in an axial magnetic field, and can be operated as a generator with sliding brushes extracting current resulting from the voltage induced between the inner and outer regions of the disk when the rotational energy is supplied by an external driving source. The generator may be recognized as a so-called homopolar, or acyclic machine, a device first investigated and described by Michael Farada圓 in 1831 and shown schematically in Fig. At each end of the magnet are conducting bronze cylindrical plates, on one of which are arranged one set of graphite brushes for extracting output current between the shaft and the outer circumference, and a second set of metering brushes It consists essentially of an electromagnet formed by a coil of 3605 urns of #10 copper wire around a soft iron core which can be rotated with the magnetic field parallel to and symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Generator Descriptionĭetails of the generator construction are shown in Figs.

THE HOMOPOLAR HANDBOOK SERIES

From August 1985 to April 1986 a series of measurements were made by the author to test these claims.

The term 'free-energy' refers to the claim by DePalma1 (and others2) that it was capable of producing electrical output power that was not reflected as a mechanical load to the driving mechanism but derived from presumed latent energy of a spatial magnetic field.Īpart from mechanical frictional and electrical losses inherent in the particular construction, the technique employed was claimed to provide a basis for constructing a generator which could supply the energy to provide not only its own motive power but also additional energy for external use. This device was designed by Bruce DePalma and constructed with the support of the Sunburst Community in Santa Barbara, CA, about 1969. In July, 1985, the author was invited to examine and test a so-called free-energy generator known as the Sunburst N Machine. The paper briefly reviews the homopolar generator, describes the tests on this particular machine and summarizes the resulting data. In particular, under certain assumptions about internally generated output voltage the increase in input power when power was extracted fro.n the generator over that measured due to fric-'ional losses with the generator unexcited seemed to be about 26% of the maximum computed output power.

While it did not perform as claimed, repeatable data showed anomalous results that did not seem to conform to traditional theory.

Known for over 150 years, the Faraday homopolar generator has been claimed to provide a basis for so-called ' free-energy' generation, in that under certain conditions the exiraction of electrical output energy is not reflected as a corresponding mechanical load to the driving source.ĭuring 1985 the author was invited to test such a machine. Society for Scientific Exploration San Francisco Paper presented at the 1986 meeting of the Robert Kincheloe Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) _Stanford University_

The homopolar handbook