Experiment  jerryrig and a conventional "Y"

   a 9/12 dual rotor with Eds small wedge mags...each coil was wound 2 inhand 46 turns of #17 wire
   
   each coil was connected external series to = 92 turns per coil.

   @ approx. 720 rpm 12v my meter indicated 12v. ac at each rectifier ( NO load)

   With a 2.4 ohm resistive load applied to any one of the 3 recifiers ( not, at this point, interconnected)
    
   the DC voltage would be just over 7 volts because the torque demand rose and I had the speed control  
   
   set at approx. 720 rpm.

* i changed from the 2.4ohm resistive load to using a car battery for the load on 8-9-06 


   when all 3 phases were connected with their DC outputs paralled, it was necessary to increase the generators
    
   driven speed to about 1,000 rpm to arive at 12v DC/6a at the load.

* about 850 rpm after airgap  was minimized

*the jerryrig bogged down less than other experiments so i could speed the genny up to get more output.


It seemed curious to me that a previous test with the same unit having all the coils hooked up

   like 2in hand would normally be, while operating in a "Y" configuration yielded about the same results at the same load.

   The unloaded ac was higher on the jerryrigged (when measured at the generator) but the useful DC output was quite close, *at least initialy on

   the two configurations.

*the battery that I was using for this experiment proved to be VERY difficult to charge up past 12-12.5 volts, even with a 10amp battery charger, 
it started pushing water over the top around 13volts and would almost immediately drop back to 12-12.5 volts when the charger was removed.

*at 8-900 rpm I put the 2.4 ohm load on the battery while charging was underway, the genny slowed about 75-100 rpm and the charge rate slipped
just below the drain rate

   I used the same rectifiers on both tests to avoid that variable.

*my conclusion at this point: with 92 turns of #17 wire in each coil "jerryrig" will at least make the stator useable with my vawt IF i am
successful in gearing it up without loosing starting torque. Not a total loss, but hardly a great bit of engineering, either!


   (for the sake of brevity I skipped over all but the final experimental results.)

   Your thoughts?
    thanx, spinner