Discussion about the Lockridge Device

[Ufopolitics]

Hello All,

Thanks @hiwater for your input...and since I have everything hooked up...I went ahead to make another test.

This time a Higher Stress Test on Dynamo Machine.

This Dynamo will not spin without power to field coils, however, I did reduce its power to minimal spec's while driving armature to 5000 RPM's plus.

Regards

Ufopolitics

[Ufopolitics]

From working with the GM style. With out power going thru the field coils. Just to the pos brush thru the armature and neg brush to ground. These shouldn't take more than one half amp to run as a motor. With just 12 volts about 3000 rpm.  With 18 - 22 volts 4200-5000 rpm.

Hello hiwater,

Unless there is a LOT of Magnetic reminiscence on your Stator Field steel cores...I do not see a way that armature will spin -at all- with zero volts applied to Fields.

As Armature should be wound on GM Dynamos with finer wire than FORD to only consume 1.5 Amps...and get to make 5000 RPM's.

This Ford armature is wound with 14 gauge...and as you have seen on video, it consumes around 6 Amps (of course, after BEMF acts to lower amps, but it "jumps" to 9-10 Amps when just increased).

Thanks

Ufopolitics

[hiwater]

From working with the GM style. With out power going thru the field coils. Just to the pos brush thru the armature and neg brush to ground. These shouldn't take more than one half amp to run as a motor. With just 12 volts about 3000 rpm.  With 18 - 22 volts 4200-5000 rpm.

Hello hiwater,

Unless there is a LOT of Magnetic reminiscence on your Stator Field steel cores...I do not see a way that armature will spin -at all- with zero volts applied to Fields.

As Armature should be wound on GM Dynamos with finer wire than FORD to only consume 1.5 Amps...and get to make 5000 RPM's.

This Ford armature is wound with 14 gauge...and as you have seen on video, it consumes around 6 Amps (of course, after BEMF acts to lower amps, but it "jumps" to 9-10 Amps when just increased).

Thanks

Ufopolitics

I was suprised when this happened also . What i did was remove the feild coils from the pole shoes. So there were only the pole shoes them selves. Then powered it as usual. I showed a friend of mine at the time. He said I always thought you needed the feild coils connected., but apparently not.
So it has to be the residual magnetisim. Remove the pole shoes it wont spin.

[hiwater]

Ufo heres another test you might want to try as long as your testing. The brush holders are in the end cap on that one. Remove the

2 long hold down bolts, remove the end cover and tap the locating pin back pin back so it flush with the end plate, sot the end plate can be turned to reposition the brushes while powering it up to run as a motor. You may need to take the pully off so you can set up on end so it dont interfer with the rotation.

As it rotating using a tailight bulb connected to the end of the feild coil ground it to the gen frame. At some point the motor should stop and reverse direction. I kind of stumbled on this by accident. It shows what happens when the gen is is connected to a load. 

Never tried on a ford gen but works on the gm. So it should work on the ford and all others also. So why not set it up like it wants to do insted of forcing it one way or the other.

Worth a try. Thanks Curt.

[Ufopolitics]

Hello All,

Ok, so after making prior tests, recommended by Citfta, we know that by reducing magnetic field strength the armature speeds up...great.

As we also know that these types of dynamos generate through the armature-brushes, and it is required to go high speeds...great.

BUT, in order for the Armature of any Dynamo to generate full power, it needs a FULL Power on the Fields.

And here I see a "Dilemma"...or two completely opposite curves between Motor and Generator.

Then a solution I see, is that we need to split the housing in two parts...one for Motor and the other for Generator, using half cycle for Motor and other half cycle for Generator.

Motor Fields separated from Generator Fields...so we can regulate Motor Fields to lower spec's, while having full power on Generator Fields.

The key to success here is that by adding full power to Generator Fields, will not affect Motor function...

Just thinking out loud...

Ufopolitics