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Hi! I just finished my version of the mendocino motor. Many thanks to George_Race for the inspiration and work-in-progress thread: it helped A LOT!

I'm still having some difficulties in balancing the rotor. It's VERY sensitive! For this reason the motor still needs a lot of light to run.

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Here's also a quick video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9A5t9d26R4
 
Nice take on the concept. I like the way you held the bearing magnets.
 
Tarik

That is a very nice looking and running motor. It looks like it moves at a pretty good speed when it gets full light. Thanks for sharing that with us.

Cheers :)

Don
 
lomaxmotorsports said:
that's cool! where would I get plans for one of those?
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Hi!
It`s a little difficult to make the plans for everyone, because depending on the rotor`s weight and magnets strength the distance between the base magnets would change? The heavier the rotor and weaker the magnets, the closer the base magnets would have to be placed.
I made a little jig to solve this, with ajustable distance between magnets, prior to building the final magnet positioning. After everything set up, I made solidworks drawings for all parts. Give me a few days and I can make the plans available for everyone and also a parts list, ok =)

Thanks a lot!
 
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