Ortho,
not sure I am ready to learn another program, still working on learning 123D design. it spits out an STL file... I have 3 slicers, slice3r, cura and matter slice, matter slice is the one that is making it sawtoothed. just got my tricklazer carbon fiber arms in today, so the machine comes apart and gets new delta arms and an LED light ring. my purpose originally for buying this thing was to do a window motor frame and make some genny coil spools and make hall sensor brackets and timing discs I could offer everyone here on the forum. those are the hardest parts to get... and a printed timing disc would hold the tiny rectangle neo mags perfectly and make window motors easier to build for everyone.
perhaps we can collaborate on the drawings as that is my weak spot right now. if you are up to it we can start a new thread on 3D printed SG parts..
Tom C
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Originally posted by Tom C View PostJohn,
I would say the device I have been enjoying the most is the Tesla Switch and the DVD it came on. you can do a screen capture, make the circuit board and have a running Circuit in no time. it works on a small scale. I found matched transistors really do help.
a pic or arduino version would be more stable that an SG3524 version, I went thru 3 of them before I found one that worked correctly on both sides. JB has already told me it can be done with a pic chip, just trying to find the time to learn pic.
I have been concentrating on my 3D printer for the last few weeks. learning 123D design, and relearning Gcode, which is what the printer uses, I learned it in my CNC machining days, a long time ago but the commands have not changed, they are slowly rising from the mist of my memory... I have a Delta printer so the X and Y go both ways pos and neg, you can have a code like G28 Z2 X100 -Y50 F5000 where Z zero is the print surface, there is no z negative, which is opposite most metal cnc programming...... and right now the radius steps are too big, need to get a different slicer program. currently all the arcs on my prints look a bit sawtoothed.
anyway good to have you back you guys inspire me!! there are so many great experimenters here, one day I hope to meet all of you.
Tom C
John K.
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Originally posted by Tom C View Postand right now the radius steps are too big, need to get a different slicer program. currently all the arcs on my prints look a bit sawtoothed.
Tom C
I did a test last night in openscad to see the difference with smoothing on and smoothing off to see the difference in the gcode produced by a slicer.
The code for smoothing everything in the file is: $fn = 100;
The part made was a simple cylinder and the code for that is: cylinder(r = 10, h = 5);
That creates a cylinder with a radius of 10mm and a height or thickness of 5mm.
With smoothing turned on the gcode was double in size. I looked at it using WinDiff and it is all about the every line of code you make a move with.
If you use anything that can export .CSG (constructive solid geometry) files, openscad can import it and the smoothing command can be added to the beginning of the file.
Don't know if this will help you now but perhaps in the future. Openscad is very easy to learn compared to gcode and it comes with example files you can load and examine each line and see quite easily what it does. I would say that among all the programming languages I know and have used, this on is by far the simplest. There is no type checking whatsoever...it is very straightforward and produces exact and beautiful results.
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Originally posted by Tom C View PostJohn,
I would say the device I have been enjoying the most is the Tesla Switch and the DVD it came on. you can do a screen capture, make the circuit board and have a running Circuit in no time. it works on a small scale. I found matched transistors really do help.
a pic or arduino version would be more stable that an SG3524 version, I went thru 3 of them before I found one that worked correctly on both sides. JB has already told me it can be done with a pic chip, just trying to find the time to learn pic.
I have been concentrating on my 3D printer for the last few weeks. learning 123D design, and relearning Gcode, which is what the printer uses, I learned it in my CNC machining days, a long time ago but the commands have not changed, they are slowly rising from the mist of my memory... I have a Delta printer so the X and Y go both ways pos and neg, you can have a code like G28 Z2 X100 -Y50 F5000 where Z zero is the print surface, there is no z negative, which is opposite most metal cnc programming...... and right now the radius steps are too big, need to get a different slicer program. currently all the arcs on my prints look a bit sawtoothed.
anyway good to have you back you guys inspire me!! there are so many great experimenters here, one day I hope to meet all of you.
Tom C
John
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John,
I would say the device I have been enjoying the most is the Tesla Switch and the DVD it came on. you can do a screen capture, make the circuit board and have a running Circuit in no time. it works on a small scale. I found matched transistors really do help.
a pic or arduino version would be more stable that an SG3524 version, I went thru 3 of them before I found one that worked correctly on both sides. JB has already told me it can be done with a pic chip, just trying to find the time to learn pic.
I have been concentrating on my 3D printer for the last few weeks. learning 123D design, and relearning Gcode, which is what the printer uses, I learned it in my CNC machining days, a long time ago but the commands have not changed, they are slowly rising from the mist of my memory... I have a Delta printer so the X and Y go both ways pos and neg, you can have a code like G28 Z2 X100 -Y50 F5000 where Z zero is the print surface, there is no z negative, which is opposite most metal cnc programming...... and right now the radius steps are too big, need to get a different slicer program. currently all the arcs on my prints look a bit sawtoothed.
anyway good to have you back you guys inspire me!! there are so many great experimenters here, one day I hope to meet all of you.
Tom C
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Originally posted by Tom C View PostJohn!!
welcome back, your presence is always a bonus for us! would love to see a vid on your latest.
Tom C
It's good to hear from you. It's also nice to be around old friends. I just wanted to say hello and see if I could get some inspirations or new ideas.
Tanks Tom
John
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Originally posted by min2oly View PostAlways interested - looking at the number of views on your vids you might just have a "couple" of others interested as well :-)
for any newbies, that's sarcasm. Dadhav has millions of views!
My transparent motorcycle alum battery has finally settled to about 12V on the high side (that's right after a charge) and normally rests around 11.5 pretty cool no acid :-)
Kind regards - Patrick A.
My battery was badly damaged before I converted it and wouldn't hold a charge. I use it all the time now. Mine doesn't have the power or capacity of a fresh new LAB but you probably noticed the impedance is really different from the LAB. I find that my motors and circuits with higher winds run much better with the alum battery.
Take care.
John
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John
allways love your vids .learn form them for years as to UFO not much need to be said
i said i thing to him he jumped my ass //dont need that
guy
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Originally posted by AlvaroHN View PostPatrick, can you tell me how it was connected? I do know that it was a bedini-cole with all 6 coils in series, but I don't know any more than that.
Alvaro
So I see that in the ferris wheel when the hub motor part is off there is no battery seen by the circuit,… and the problem that I have is that when the cap feeding my bedini-cole circuit is below the volts generated by the power coil the energy flows back through the transistors, so I just need a switch to isolate the cap until its voltage is higher than the generated by the power coils, and let it fire there like a big punch.
Maybe the comparator cap dump circuit can do the job... SSG --> comparator --> bedini-cole -- > some thing else
Alvaro
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Originally posted by min2oly View PostWhy not connect it up the way John Bedini had the center hub of his Ferris Wheel hooked up?
Patrick
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Originally posted by min2oly View PostYes.
welcome to the party...
just think of them as diodes not transistors.
The same thing will happen with the SSG.
Patrick
Tnx for the reply Patrick.
I will have to find another way of doing this... (And I don't want to use relays...)
Alvaro
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Originally posted by DadHav View PostHello Guy, Patrick, Friends
Funny you ask about the window motors. I couldn't think of any more ways to run my motors until the other day. I managed to run my steel rotor motor wirelessly from a Tesla coil. Well I add a ground if I want to get the best run. I run the coil from the alum motorcycle battery and use the Slayer exciter circuit for the coil. I'm running at about 11 volts and can get about 4-6 feet away from the coil with a one foot long antenna on the AV plug for running the half wave circuit for the window motor. I haven't been doing very much other than getting caught up on things that I've neglected over the last few years. Oh Ya, recovery from taking a beating on the UFO forum is still taking time too. Ha, LOL. I'll probably have a video posted next week if you're interested.
Nice talking to you guys again.
John
welcome back, your presence is always a bonus for us! would love to see a vid on your latest.
Tom C
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Originally posted by AlvaroHN View PostI have an issue with the idea about running a ssg circuit, and send the recovery to a cap that would be the source for a bedini-cole circuit in the same rotor.
The SSG circuit in radiant mode tuned to 1 pulse per magnet would give me a RPM of aprox 3200. but with the secondary circuit in place (bedini-cole) the RPM went down to 2000+ , so I started to try things to see what was causing the RPM loss... After some tests, it seems that the bedini-cole circuit is causing drag even if it is not triggered, is that normal???
Originally posted by AlvaroHN View PostI connected the SSG circuit to run the rotor and the output of the ssg was sent to a comparator. Then I placed again the bedini-cole circuit with an empty cap as power source and the drag started again, there is power been sent to the primary of the bedini-cole when the rotor is spinning, by normal induction (the output of the bedini-cole was not connected to anything) I don't know why this is happening since the power coil is isolated from the power source (empty cap) by the 2 transistors. Could this be happening because of the reverse breakdown of the transistors???
Any advice?
Alvaro
just think of them as diodes not transistors.
The same thing will happen with the SSG.
Patrick
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