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Old 09-12-2012, 03:08 AM   #59 (permalink)
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I'm just saying do what MTSU did with their magnets, but put them on the inner surface of the wheel instead of on the drum. Bigger radius = proportionately more torque per squirt of electric juice through the electromagnets, which also must be located further from the axis of rotation to mate with the permanent magnets on the wheel.

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The funny part is that when I looked at this picture I mistakenly thought that the "magnet wheel" in the middle *was* the wheel :



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