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Originally Posted by beaner
And upon further inspection I think it does touch... double sheetz 
So I created a homopolar motor, discovered in the 1800's, and it sucks as a motor because it pulls too much from the battery?
Nathan,
What about a solid copper sleeve... would that rotate the fastest? Or is it really just the number of off/on connections at the magnet connection? |
First off, it does not suck because it pulls too much from the battery. I was not sure how much load it would create, since I never checked, and I did not know how much load the battery can take. You basically took the max drain possible from it, which is why it only took 13 minutes to deplete.
Re the sleeve, no, it would not turn at all. It would generate one continuous field.