[SEL] WOW-magneto charger

[Mark Shulaw]

Ok Evil one I thinks yer just yanking my chain but I'll play along. 
This is going to stretch my understanding a bit but I will do the best I can.

#1 Full strength is relative, depends on what field saturation point 
you need for the application. A 850 pound charger will provide a 
stronger field, IF its design is in a proper balanced relationship to 
Input voltage, coil design and core size. Designed wrong and no it 
will not.  Many specifics left out.

#2 Assembly line charging one item right after the other or in large 
groups all at once, Is what I mean by working all day long. Some of 
the magnet chargers that used to be at Triplett Corporation here in 
Bluffton were brutes every bit as large as that Weidenoff and larger. 
Table charges actually. They were used just to charge magnets that 
you could hold in the palm of your hand. Input voltages adjustable to 
suit the field saturation point needed. The magnets on average were 
about the diameter of a snuff tin, with others the pee magnet as they 
were nicknamed about 3/8" in diameter. Tripletts magnets used cobalt 
cores and I think they took one hell of a field to get them to 
specified field saturation. The magnets in the Triplett meters had to 
be saturated to a certain strength for the meters. The meters have 
adjustments to do final calibrations for balancing of the indicator 
needle. But thats a different magnet then the ones we have on our engines.

#3 The small chargers you and I have will increase field saturation 
some, enough to help but not bring it to the point originally 
intended by the magneto manufacturer.

#4 Not sure if we can over charge the magnets on the magnetos we work 
with or if overcharging would hurt anything.  But they can be 
undercharged and still run the engine relatively fine. Bench testing 
the mag will reveal that output voltage is low compared to original 
specifications. So the engine may not perform to full potential, just 
not enough for us to notice on casual observation.

All this to the best of my understanding and observation.

Mark S.


At 06:40 PM 4/1/2011, you wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>On Apr 1, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Mark Shulaw wrote:
>
> >
> > Correct me if I am wrong but I believe this one is a production
> > charger. Made to charge new bar stock steel from 0 magnetism to full
> > strength so you have to produce a much stronger field to get the
> > proper effect.
>What (exactly) is "full strength?" Would a 850# charger provide even
>stronger magnetism?
> >  While the smaller chargers we use are just to freshen
> > up the already charged but just slightly weak magnets. That 450 pound
> > brute was made to do what we do not need it to do, Charge magnets all
> > day long from 0 to full charge.
>Why would it take "all day long" to charge a magnet?
> > So to answer your question we don't
> > need it so yes we can make do with the smaller ones. The one I use
> > here is only 20# or so and does what I need. But I am going to get a
> > somewhat larger one some day.
>If the 20# charger does the job, why do you intend to get a larger one?
> >  I believe that the 450 pound brute may be to large for what most of
> > us need by far.
>Would it hurt (in any way) the magnets we use?
> > And yes some one mentioned keeping away if you have a
> > pace maker, I would highly recommend that, along with some of the
> > other implanted electronic medical devices.
> >
> >                    TTYL,  Mark
>         Dave
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Mark Shulaw
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