Colby Johnson
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DIY Air Core Axial Flux Motor/Generator
Going a bit more in depth with the different parts of the motor.
Forgive my filming and editing skills. I am still learning
Simulation Generator (Work in progress)
cjohnson25.github.io/femm-sim-gen-app/
Follow the journey:
endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=111345
Winding jig STL:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:5332267
มุมมอง: 273 468

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3D printed Axial Flux Motor - Changes over time
มุมมอง 63K3 ปีที่แล้ว
I didn't want to make this too long, but it goes over the changes that I have made to the motor over time. Hopefully more footage to come in a bit. The newest version of the motor will take a bit longer to complete. I am learning how to make silicone molds and I want to try to squeeze even more turns into this, so there has been quite a bit of trial and error. Follow the Journey: endless-sphere...
3D Printed Axial Flux Motor - Mk6
มุมมอง 2.6K3 ปีที่แล้ว
This version is using the same rotors from Mk5, but the difference with this one is that the stator is not 3D printed. It was wound around a jig and cast in epoxy. This version has 7 turns. 2 more than the Mk5 did, but in this video, it has a larger air gap, which is leading to nearly identical performance. Follow the Journey: endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=111345
3D Printed Axial Flux Motor - Mk5
มุมมอง 1.3K3 ปีที่แล้ว
This is the 5th version of the project. This version has an iron back which stiffens the rotors and will allow for tighter tolerances. Follow the discussion here: endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=111345
3D Printed Axial Flux Motor - Mk4 - More Testing
มุมมอง 1.2K3 ปีที่แล้ว
More testing with an improved testing set up. This is experiencing too much vibration, and I have concerns about it spinning too fast. I'm considering it obsolete. The next one is on it's way Follow the Journey: endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=111345
3D Printed Axial Flux Motor - Mk4 - Testing
มุมมอง 1.2K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Testing the Mk4 on the test stand. I added the heat set inserts and printed a mount, but there is still quite a bit of vibration which is limiting me from spinning it up too fast. It seems like the whole things is out of balance. Follow the Journey: endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=111345
3D Printed Axial Flux Motor - Mk4 - teaser
มุมมอง 3K3 ปีที่แล้ว
There are a number of issues with how this came together and will need to be fixed. It will be replaced soon too given the issues with constructing it. This is just an initial test to show it spinning. Obviously it needs to be properly mounted. Follow the Journey: endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=111345
3D Printed Axial Flux Motor - Mk2
มุมมอง 9433 ปีที่แล้ว
MK2 (unofficial, still need a better name) First one was toast, it fused itself together from friction and heat, this one was better but eventually broke as well, cuz I spun it with only one rotor on it. oops Follow the Journey: endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=111345
Litz wire winding machine
มุมมอง 4.9K3 ปีที่แล้ว
I created a machine that can be used to make litz wire with up to 20 strands. I am using this to make 20/32 enameled wire for a brushless motor project. I used K'nex and 3d printed parts that I modeled. There is obvious room for improvement, but it works pretty well. Let me know what you think!
3D Printed Axial Flux Motor - Mk3
มุมมอง 1.6K3 ปีที่แล้ว
MK3? This is still a work in progress! This is a project that I have been working on for a bit. it's a fully 3D printed dual rotor air core brushless motor. The rotors are each 48 N52 Neodymium magnets oriented in a halbach array for 24 poles each. Each magnet was epoxied into place. The stator is a winding pattern that I modeled, which uses 3 phases with 12 poles each for a total of 36 poles. ...

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  • @andrewthuku2638
    @andrewthuku2638 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How do you run it? Through controller or direct DC power if controller, which voltage and watts rating. Mine run too fast and burnt my 48 v 1000 watts controller and my battery pack BMS. Need help to know how to run it.

    • @colbyjohnson2344
      @colbyjohnson2344 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@andrewthuku2638 I use a hobby ESC. More turns means lower RPM per volt. Try thinner wire with many turns.

  • @mollikagrodairy2850
    @mollikagrodairy2850 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hi Colbi. This is Lipon from Bangladesh. How could we be connected?

  • @voodoo6604
    @voodoo6604 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What is your mic on this video? Sounds good

  • @excitedbox5705
    @excitedbox5705 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the best DIY motors I have seen. I think a push + pull coil config and some iron/ferrite inserts would increase the strength a ton. Axial designs are usually better for torque than high RPM. You can use a jig to get precision. Using a single piece of metal mounted to the bearing as a measuring stick to glue each part 1 by 1 as you turn it will make sure they are each exactly the same distance from the bearing. The same can be done for each direction using a single mounting point and set dimension for repeatability.

  • @katiekumcgil
    @katiekumcgil หลายเดือนก่อน

    just curious how your project was going ,i did see acouple of the pcb manufactureers now offer pretty checp cnc work and even metal printing

  • @nitinsurywanshi8367
    @nitinsurywanshi8367 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wainding dikhaye

  • @gagariworks
    @gagariworks หลายเดือนก่อน

    awesome

  • @laljipandey5172
    @laljipandey5172 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pl give me coil direction of 12 coil stater three phase axial flux bldc motor

  • @John____Smith
    @John____Smith 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Question : if to make winding not copper but iron , maybe it will be better?

    • @colbyjohnson2344
      @colbyjohnson2344 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@John____Smith while I do not believe iron windings on its own are the answer. I imagine using some iron wire in tandem with the sopper wire would improve induction. But they would have to be separated. Iron wire on its own would not produce the same back EMF. However it may act as a sort of reluctance motor otherwise.

    • @MakeTechPtyLtd
      @MakeTechPtyLtd 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@colbyjohnson2344 hey, 2 years on, no update video? Did you make any progress? Such a beautiful design. Im suprised axial flux motors aren't being used in ebike hub motors yet. Axial flux could have alot of copper in a direct drive hub motor, with big magnets, and not need additional width. Probably a good fit on hybrid car engines too.

  • @gabrielware2777
    @gabrielware2777 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ive been designing exactly this plus more for over 15 years

  • @haydenc2742
    @haydenc2742 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder if there was a way to put sintered cylinders inside the coils to concentrate the magnetic flux if it would help improve efficiency. Or even a steel (ferrous) bobbin type contraption. This way the magnetic field is directed rather than just a field. Very cool that it ran so well...did have an odd vibration harmonic...but it ran quite well! Long term under load does it get hot? Keep em coming!!!!

  • @mjktrash
    @mjktrash 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Any updates on this? I'll go check your channel next. I'm looking for efficient generator designs

    • @colbyjohnson2344
      @colbyjohnson2344 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mjktrash I had more parts machined. And made it simpler but ultimately never finished. Other things in life took priority. I'll go back to it eventually

  • @sc0or
    @sc0or 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder why did you use a 3-phase scheme if there is no angle shift in 12N24P scheme? All your slots are at a same angle to poles. It's a wasting of MOSFETS imho

  • @ToanHoang-vy3jz
    @ToanHoang-vy3jz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    can you make a video comparing the torque between a shaft flux motor and a regular radial flux motor of the same size? i read that the torque of a shaft flux motor is 4 times higher than a regular radial flux motor but i don't see anyone making a video comparing them

  • @jebarijihed
    @jebarijihed 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    is it possible to do it using PCB coil stator ?

  • @MakeKasprzak
    @MakeKasprzak 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice!

  • @wujeson3921
    @wujeson3921 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really can this do heavy duty application?

    • @colbyjohnson2344
      @colbyjohnson2344 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wujeson3921 no not really

  • @RobertSchmitt-u7l
    @RobertSchmitt-u7l 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why not integrate a centrifugal fan into the rotor design??/ I think it would work for the very highest power motors, if its encased in epoxy, just prevent magnetic dust, and all should be well. If centrifugal force self cleans, it would be perfect for bolt on car wheel hub evs. 2 or 4 wd could even be converted with kits, If cars were simpler, it wouldnt be bad, at all.

  • @user-hr7go2eu5h
    @user-hr7go2eu5h 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for your educational videos.

  • @user-hr7go2eu5h
    @user-hr7go2eu5h 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mix the 3D printing resin with graphene to make it stronger so it won’t bend.

  • @JF32304
    @JF32304 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice build man. 🙌💯

  • @_.ah7
    @_.ah7 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your project

  • @godbeIess
    @godbeIess 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey Colby, I'm researching building my own Axial Flux motor. My question is how strong is the 3d printed housing? Even with properly gauged wires, the housing may not be suitable to provide 1/2 horsepower or so. Any comments on that? Love your explanations.

  • @jamesmaclean2
    @jamesmaclean2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi Colby I am trying to build a Linear Generator & have much the same problems with it that you have with your motor. The Coil is just a Coil of wire. However, to direct the Magnetic Flux of the Oscillating Magnetic Ring, I need to surround this coil with a Laminated Iron Clam Shell. This I can not make myself, however like you I could make a mold & cast the 2 halves of the Clam Shell out of Iron Filings & epoxy. Have you found any way to design & build such things, & calculate how efficient it would be compared to Laminated Sheets ? Thank you for sharing your project ! James

    • @colbyjohnson2344
      @colbyjohnson2344 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have not played around with a metal core stator. I only made the air core ones. I think it's worth it to add some metal. But I think it would need to be magnetically separated to have any benefit

  • @jussikankinen9409
    @jussikankinen9409 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If big copper spins in center, heavy, would there be forces, like copper affect magnet when moving or aluminium, like ice boils under pressure

    • @colbyjohnson2344
      @colbyjohnson2344 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The copper winding is the stator. It does not spin

  • @jpr2635
    @jpr2635 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome!

  • @arunfernandez1999
    @arunfernandez1999 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2 years and nothing form your side bro upload and bldc motor video

  • @arunfernandez1999
    @arunfernandez1999 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thanks bro for make this video keep on making video bro why do you have to stop ???

  • @bpark10001
    @bpark10001 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I made alternator like this. It was 4" diameter, rotor 16 pole 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/4" thick NdFeB magnets spaced 1/4" apart. Backing for magnets was 3/16" thick steel. Magnet rotor was set in machined aluminum pockets. Stator was 12 semi-triangular coils , non overlapping, embedded in 3/16" thick epoxy-fiberglass circuit board, pocketed out on circuit board miller. Generator was 10 ohms phase-phase & 120VDC (rectified) output when running at 3000 RPM. This was driven by Honda 4-stroke 1HP weedwacker engine running at idle. power output (feeding through world-wide power supply) produced 12V at 80W for charging military equipment in the field. Weight of entire package (engine, alternator, power supply, gasoline for running 3 hours per day for 2 weeks) weighed just over 15 pounds. The military does not have SMALL portable generator units like this for use in the field. The last one I saw was unit with 2-stroke engine making 120VAC 400Hz 1 phase made for use during the Korean War, weighing about the same.

  • @saravanan.m9884
    @saravanan.m9884 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    can u share the filaments u used for thes models.

    • @colbyjohnson2344
      @colbyjohnson2344 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All of the models in this video were made with PLA. I think it was Overture

  • @ukrlan4414
    @ukrlan4414 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are you alive?

  • @freddyfingerz9854
    @freddyfingerz9854 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For what i am doing i really could use a hand and a setup like that. And another coil i will talk aboit if anyone is up to helping. I have a very nice machine requiring a setup

  • @freddyfingerz9854
    @freddyfingerz9854 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey would you be interested in a side project where that design will flourish?

  • @b5a5m5
    @b5a5m5 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dunno what your progress on the mold has been, but I would play with a rigid shell / mold that a thin hard silicone liner is keyed to. My thought process is that there'd be very little in deformation from your "pressing" method this way. Also putting it all in a pressure pot to shrink the air bubbles is a good idea too!

  • @michaelbannon4467
    @michaelbannon4467 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for a really interesting video :)

  • @Mateo-wf1yz
    @Mateo-wf1yz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very nice, good work. Do you have info on the Halbach array/ magnet configuration and coils of your axial flux motor? Or if you know any other web resources that has good info on this things. I might try build a similar motor and see if i can manage to make a good one.

  • @ltsky311
    @ltsky311 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    nice motor's but not sure these are so much the classic axial flux design as your coils seem a bit more traditional, have you tried to take copper coil and flattening the wire to lay on top of itself per wrap, similar to like how a 3d print layers itself. you can pull round wire between two rollers and it will flatten and is controllable enough to get nominal diameters, or widths.

  • @mikeconnery4652
    @mikeconnery4652 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice project

  • @ghrue1
    @ghrue1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    한 가지 제안한다면 영구자석을 사용하는 대신 구리 권선을 이용하여 모터를 돌릴 수 있는 방안을 찾으면 좋겠습니다. 테슬라나 현대나 자동차 회사들이 전기자동차 모터에 관심을 가지고 이에 관하여 연구하고 있습니다.

  • @ryanhorvath5816
    @ryanhorvath5816 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It would be interesting to see what would happen if you used one of your phases as a drive and put voltage into that phase see what type of RPMs you can get and what the other two phases give you for output 🤯

    • @colbyjohnson2344
      @colbyjohnson2344 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The output would be less than the input. No such thing as a free lunch

    • @ryanhorvath5816
      @ryanhorvath5816 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you were to pulse DC into one phase the other two phases what act like a transformer you would lose some power for the resistance of heat and things but when you move magnets on it you get a result of the movement of magnets plus the pulses from the transformer affect that you're getting from the input phase

    • @ryanhorvath5816
      @ryanhorvath5816 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And being an Air corps coil that has low resistance and higher efficiencies just saying I think it would be interesting

  • @CraigLandsberg-lk1ep
    @CraigLandsberg-lk1ep 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was so glad to find you😅

  • @CraigLandsberg-lk1ep
    @CraigLandsberg-lk1ep 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Am so glad to see all your iterations of this setup😅i am just getting into making my own axial flux motors and love your experiments, like i said in previous comments i would love to help you with this, I have a $10,000 Tig welder and a metal lathe so would love to help you advance this if you need 😅

  • @CraigLandsberg-lk1ep
    @CraigLandsberg-lk1ep 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think you did very well 😀 it actually looks more ballanced than others, the fact it smoothes its self out with more rpm is a good sign 😅 like i said in previous comments i would love to help you develop this! Please respond if you have any thoughts of what you would like to improve on this, i have the the tools to help you, just ask me 😅 great video & I was actually impresed how smooth it ran💙

  • @CraigLandsberg-lk1ep
    @CraigLandsberg-lk1ep 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I could turn those parts on my metal lathe for you and send them from Australia 🌏 to the US with not much cost above postage, cause I would like to help you push it to the maximum efficiency and then I could do it for myself, let me know what you think, loving your build video, and I have the tools you need 😅

  • @GiesbertNijhuis
    @GiesbertNijhuis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful motor/generator! Must/could be very energy efficient. I'm new here, will check your other videos now. Keep on developing/experimenting!

  • @Grandliseur
    @Grandliseur ปีที่แล้ว

    Enjoyed your video. Nice hobby. Hope you make something out of it.

  • @Drenov
    @Drenov ปีที่แล้ว

    Instead of telling us about what you re going to do, tell us more about the motor.

  • @mangawm31
    @mangawm31 ปีที่แล้ว

    what is cromoly?? is it the same as aluminum??

  • @EddyKorgo
    @EddyKorgo ปีที่แล้ว

    Probably late to say but gonna say anyway, machine the surface of the print,

  • @firefox3799
    @firefox3799 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great work! Could you please report the inverter unit model used to drive the motor? Thanks!!