I Need Help

[JohnDB]

Fantastic idea! The kids will love that!



Why? Doesn't that work with most kids?





Huh? Wan't the metal first produced in Europe (Denmark)? Perhaps you're confused by the fact that the rest of the world calls it aluminium. To the best of my knowledge, Slovakia exports millions of aluminium soda cans to other countries, from e.g. this plant.

Oh yeah?
Cool...then I can go with my original plan.

The one coil of wire like you pictured is going to be hard to manage for them. It's hard for me much less kids...so I was thinking about something a little stronger. Something a bit different.
But basically the same as the one with the acrylic circles and coils like the YouTube video has. I was going to bring some aluminum foil or copper sheets and make it happen that way.

 

[jocor]

Here is one that I really like that I think that the kids can do...LINK



But again...materials for the housing and Stator are going to be tough once I get there.

I know nothing about this subject, but after looking at images of a stator on Google, I thought a wooden spool for thread would work. Perhaps a pencil can go through it suspended on the paper clips?

 

[JohnDB]

AC motors (usually "squirrel cage") are going to be beyond the kids ability to make...

But it depends on how much time they want me to teach for.

If you can understand how a transformer works then an AC motor becomes easy to understand.

And I think it's going to be easy to show these kids how its really just a bunch of mathematics and magnetism...and if they know the math it's all really easy.

Granted polar addition and trigonometry is probably beyond them...but the algebra and ratios are plenty for them to see in action.