If I did that, I wouldn't have time to make videos, and you would have nothing to watch.

Matthias Wandel

You could just film the lessons. Make a neat TV show out of it, and have volunteers or staff edit the episodes down for youtube videos

Bob Y how to use a solenoid on a pocket hole jig

My 6 year old’s favorite channel ever since he was 3.

I was waiting for that to fall across the room

e clip = jesus clip when it shoots of "jesus f#*k crist

Fun fact: the "e" stands for "escape."

the evil clip from e corp

My dad always called them that because he said when the flew off you looked upwards and asked "Jesus, where did it go?"

might have enough power for a light duty scroll saw

to cut paper, maybe

It's like 0.0001 HP

Never said it would be a big tablesaw.

same.

very sad... :(

/r/meirl

Ow. That struck close to home

I'm a father of a 2yr old daughter. I want to be such a father that spent time together and "play&learn(teach)"

"I see a red door, I want it painted bl.... green!"

your reffrence is perfect but i doubt many will get it sadly in this day and age

nightcoremixer1 Thank you. Well, if they're not into '70s music and they're addicted to the LATEST&NEWEST, last year Ciara made a nice cover of "Paint It, Black".

I got it! 30yro

I know right? Some youtubers would milk this by making the engine in a 17 video series with 10 minutes of rambling in each one....

wranglerstar?

why such hate-comment? respect each other,what you don't want to see; don't watch it

jeah, i think your right. Although i would not leave such comment.. but thats me

Yep

The engine isn't nearly powerful enough for that

+Matthias Wandel Not to really cut wood (tiny logs). Just a display or model. Well, if it didn't really cut wood, you probably wouldn't want to build it - haha. Plus it would probably remind you of all the work you had to do at your Fathers sawmill.

A great man! Thanks for the reminder.

hole - 1st drill press channel !jhk

You mean Nikola Watt.

A flyback diode would delay the collapse of the magnetic field, which would slow it down. So far, no issues with the contacts.

If it was causing an arc across the contacts, then some form of snubber would help, but as for now, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. 👱🏻

A diode with a resistor in series (or a zener diode with a normal diode) will still collapse the magnetic field fast, yet they will reduce the back EMF to a predictable reasonable level. It will still dissipate the energy though. A little more complex circuit would be required to regenerate the energy.

PaxGrime | Viper Boosting I was referring to the physical representation of functionality not the materials used to create it. I was purely stating that this could be a substitute for using a steam based motor for aesthetic purposes.

I ran it for about 10 minutes. Average current at 12 volts is 100 miliamperes. Its a very efficient solenoid, so it only gets warm

The only real power losses on this engine except the obvious mechanical and resistive losses on the coil are induced currents in the rod and loss of magnetic energy when the switch opens. The first can be eliminated by using a ferrite rod instead of a metal rod and the second if you use a small electronic circuit to redirect the magnetic energy to the source (or store it to a capacitor until the next cycle). Resistive losses can be reduced by carefully timing the on and off time of the coil to have it active only the time that it does the most work. Mechanical losses can be reduced by using bearings. After all that the final motor will actually be very energy efficient.

it would need to have another funktion. just turning is a little boring. we do built bells with electric magnets and diy bells from sheets of copper though. the solenoid engine would work as a bell... you could make it hit the bell when it is pulling the shaft in.