daveparf wrote:
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My question is,
Should all my coils be wound the same way and positioned so one side of the coil has a north pole magnet behind it and the other side of the coil have a south pole magnet behind it? i am using 4 coils so they will all be positioned the same way. I am thinking the north magnet will send current up one side of the coil and the south will send the current down the other side of the coil?
Thanks Dave
Interesting idea, especially if it can be permanently built into main pipelines feeding several homes, districts etc where there are quasi continuous water consumption day and night. Of course it can also be useful within a single home.
To answer your question I can only help by pointing to a thread here where Bedini was quoted how his so called Window motor works. The Window motor resembles the most to your mechanical setup and you can see how he positioned the coils and the magnets. Of course it is a motor setup and you have a generator setup I know but I think if the motor setup is understood then the generator setup can also be clearer.
Here is video on the Window motor:
Bedini-Cole Window Motor - YouTube
Here is the thread:
(This picture may also help: http://www.icehouse.net/john1/afield.jpg )
I have not built coils with the shape you show in your picture or coils like shown in a Window motor this is why I answer like this. If you feed some hundred milliAmper DC current into one of your coils from a low voltage source and explore with a compass the static magnetic poles developing around such coil format you have, then it may also give useful info what poles are to be present and where, then you turn your mind into "generator mode".
Gyula