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OK, I don't know if this is the ultimate psyche job or that one of our drivers is actually onto something revolutionary.
We have a driver who is an electrical engineer, he rewinds armatures for a living basically. Last night I watched him change out a M/T armature with one he "modified", and listening to it warm up it almost sounded like a horizontal arm car, with that much RPM. He only ran half a dozen laps with it then pulled it off, but here's his story.
Remember that this is a vertical axis Magna-Traction armature. First, what he does is de-wind the armature until it reaches a certain resistance in ohms. No, he wouldn't tell us what that figure was, but he says the resistance from pole to pole was nearly identical. Then he epoxies the wires with some sort of home made formula that is hi temp and hi stress. After that he uses a very sophisticated balancer to file the outside of the stack so that it's nearly perfectly balanced when it spins. This isn't the simple two razor blades balancer; this is something that actually spins it and measures out of balance locations digitally, just like tire balancing. Again, he won't tell us where he got the tool, but we have seen it.
The car does not have zapped magnets, only this blueprinted armature, and it's very quick out of the corners but tops out quickly on the straights. I'm sure that he's lowered the moment of inertia for spinning the arm up, but I'm really interested what it'll do with zapped magnets. I'm no engineer, but I would appreciate anyone out here who is helping me out here.
Is this a psyche job or are we about to be handed a real beat down?
We have a driver who is an electrical engineer, he rewinds armatures for a living basically. Last night I watched him change out a M/T armature with one he "modified", and listening to it warm up it almost sounded like a horizontal arm car, with that much RPM. He only ran half a dozen laps with it then pulled it off, but here's his story.
Remember that this is a vertical axis Magna-Traction armature. First, what he does is de-wind the armature until it reaches a certain resistance in ohms. No, he wouldn't tell us what that figure was, but he says the resistance from pole to pole was nearly identical. Then he epoxies the wires with some sort of home made formula that is hi temp and hi stress. After that he uses a very sophisticated balancer to file the outside of the stack so that it's nearly perfectly balanced when it spins. This isn't the simple two razor blades balancer; this is something that actually spins it and measures out of balance locations digitally, just like tire balancing. Again, he won't tell us where he got the tool, but we have seen it.
The car does not have zapped magnets, only this blueprinted armature, and it's very quick out of the corners but tops out quickly on the straights. I'm sure that he's lowered the moment of inertia for spinning the arm up, but I'm really interested what it'll do with zapped magnets. I'm no engineer, but I would appreciate anyone out here who is helping me out here.
Is this a psyche job or are we about to be handed a real beat down?