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Thursday, 4 August 2011

How to make the simplest electric motor - 2

 dvbot     August 04, 2011     battery, cell, diy, easy, electric, motor, project, simple     No comments   





Making a simple Motor out of an alkaline cell, neodymium disk magnet, copper wire and a drywall screw.





You have one drywall screw, one 1.5 V alkaline cell, six inches of plain copper wire, one small neodymium disk magnet, and no other tools or supplies. You have 30 seconds to make an electric motor running in excess of ten thousand RPM. Can you do it? Surprisingly enough, you can.

Let's take a step back. The most common type of electric motor is the brushed dc electric motor. This is the kind that you'll find inside essentially everything that moves (or shakes) and runs on batteries. This type of motor attracts an electromagnet towards a permanent magnet. When the two are close enough,the polarity of the current through the electromagnet is reversed, so that it now repels the permanent magnet, and thus keeps turning. It's quite easy to build a working model; Christian built this example for his third-grade science project. A simpler yet motor (sometimes sold as the sold as the "world's simplest motor") just switches off the current for half of the cycle, letting the angular momentum of the spinning motor armature carry it through.

None of these is really the simplest motor. The real champion is the homopolar motor.
Ready to build one? Let's get started:

The ingredients (L-R): One ferromagnetic screw, one battery cell, a few inches of copper wire, and a neodymium disk magnet. I used a drywall screw both because it has a flat head and because it's easy to tell when it's turning. You can use a nail instead. The battery needn't be any particular type; an alkaline C-cell works fine and is easy to hold. Just about any copper wire will work fine for this application. I used some wire with partially stripped (and partially striped) red insulation that is easy to see in the photos. Bare copper will work just as well.
The magnet came from an LED throwie with a dead battery. The best magnets for this job are neodymium disc magnets with a conductive plating. You can get them from plastic toys or buy them from a number of magnet discount and surplus shops.

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Set the screw on the magnet, bend the wire.

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Attach the magnet to one end of the battery. The weak, single-point contact that you are making serves as an low-friction bearing. I like to attach it to the button end, but the other end will work as well. (If you do so, the motor will spin the opposite direction. You can also reverse the direction by flipping the magnet up side down.) (Note to physics geeks: The heavier your magnet plus screw system is, the lower the friction will be, right up to the point that magnet isn't strong enough to hold them any more. This is because the friction force is proportional to the normal force. In other words, a bigger magnet is usually better.)


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Press and hold the top end of the wire to the top end of the battery, making an electrical connection from the top battery end to the wire.

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Here we go: Lightly touch the free end of the wire to the side of the magnet. The magnet and screw start to spin immediately. We can get ours up to 10,000 RPM in about fifteen seconds. Watch out: The screw and magnet can easily fly out of control, and you do not want that screw ending up in your eye. Also note that some of the components, like the wire, can get very warm while you're doing this. Wear safety glasses and use common sense!
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