A Home Made V12 Solenoid Engine, Built Using Recycled Materials
A solenoid engine uses the magnetic pull of solenoids to turn a crankshaft, and resembles the architecture of an internal combustion engine./davidrobert2007
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The crankshaft on this engine is made up of one hundred and forty individual parts bolted together, and is fully counterweighted to balance the rotational mass.//read more: davidrobert2007
The flywheel is an old drill / lathe chuck of some sort (army surplus), the engine has a tachometer pulse generator on the rear of the timing / distributor shaft to run the red LED tachometer, it uses Meccano timing chain and sprockets, and has a key ignition switch for added style.
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This engine can run both as a four stroke or as a two stroke, and can switch while running. This engine does not develop much torque, certainly much less torque than a standard rotary electric motor can produce, for the equivalent power input – for this reason the solenoid engine is just a novelty and an educational model.
Engine description
- Technical details:
- Type: 60 degree V12 electric piston engine
- Maximum RPM: 3,200 RPM
- Input voltage: 24 volts dc
- Speed controller: Mechanical PWM
- Cylinder bore diameter: 8mm
- Piston stroke length: 10mm
- Total theoretical displacement: 6cc
- Firing order: 1, 12, 5, 8, 3, 10, 6, 7, 2, 11, 4, 9 (Same as old type Ferrari)
- Main bearing size: 4x9x4 mm (684zz)
- Big end bearing size: 4x9x4 mm (684zz)
- Flywheel mass: 900g
- Switching transistors: 2N3055
- Solenoid model: SOLEN 121E16530 (with built in flyback diode)
- Total mass of engine: 6kg approximately
- Exhaust emissions: zero//via: davidrobert2007