As a Hobby Project, or a 4-H Project or a Boy Scout Project, or for actual use on a farm, for example, you can build your own AC electric generator. You may need to make some alterations to suit your individual needs, but the basic design is valid. You start by cutting a 1' diameter PVC plastic pipe to a length of 3 feet. You then put a wooden dowel inside the PVC pipe to reinforce it. You then buy a large spool of 16 gauge wire with plastic covering (American gauge standard) of 100 foot length. You put approximately 2 feet of slack in the wire on one side and begin wrapping the wire so that the wire is spooled onto the PVC pipe in the middle of the pipe across of 1 and 1/2 foot length, leaving 2 feet of slack wire at the other end of the pipe. You then strip the wire at each end, removing the plastic and wire the slack wire so that the wire is separated into 3 different lines and firmly attache to the pipe at equal distances. You then get some 2 inch by 6 inch lumber and make two 3 foot high posts with a 1 inch hole drilled in each, which you then grease. The posts must be firmly attached to a base. You then place the ends of the pipe through the holes at each end. You then use a 3/4 inch plywood base to connect the two posts at the bottom. You then build table shelf at two inches below the wire wrappings of the pipe. You then get two large chunks of iron and run DC volts through the iron to polarize the electrons in the iron and thus magnetize them. If you cannot use DC electricity to do this, then you can simply rub the iron bars in the same direction over and over again to magnetize them. Then, you can start by putting a hand crank at the one end of the pipe. Also, you must get two pieces of copper sheeting approximately 1/16 inch thick and 6 inches long, and 1 inch wide and attach each to a wooden post which is attache to the table and let each sheeting piece overlap the top of the pipe where the 3 copper wires from the wire spool coil will aternatively keep in contact with the copper sheeting strip as the pipe with the coil spool is turned. You then attach a wire core or wrapped romex wire to each of the respective posts and then hook each end of the wires to a heating coil to test the generator. You then turn the pipe with the hand crank to test it, and later it could be turned by an ox with a wooden turnstyle and wooden spoke gears, later with a gasoline engine.
Perpetual (C)Copyright and (P)Patent by Anthony J. Fejfar and Emmanuel J. Fejfar and Joshua A. Fejfar and Neothomism P.C. (PA) and the American People as a Perpetual Public Domain Copyright and Patent.
