i didnt know how much i needed to hear "dont take the first bolt you see, it might have low permeability and your magnet will suck" right now. thank you
Bro wtf ? I searched whole internet and I can’t find this good explaining video fr bro super super great video bro just explained whole magnetism like so good and teaching with practice its too good thx so mutch for making these videos your videos helps so mutch people and so mutch time like years!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
I like combination of verbal explanation, diagrams, and equations. This is the best explanation I have seen of magnetic force and electricty. And funny!
Quite appealing way of explanation. I found after a long search. Suggestion: Run alongside multiple language strips for better yield of subscription, if explained to more population ????????
Thank you for the commend. I would like to have multi language subtitles, but unfortunately i cannot control quality of the translation. Probably there will be a lot of mistakes if i use something like auto-translator :( However, maybe I will try to do it for this video and see how it goes ) Thank you for a suggestion
Excellent, I have learned everything about electromagnet in this video. Very good way of explaining. Thank you so much. Have a beautiful day, greetings from Cordoba, Argentina
This video is so awesome! One trick to reduce ohms is dividing the wire into equal segments. For instance 1500 feet ÷10 reduces wire link to 150' each. Increasing Tesla's and reducing ohms. Core material is very critical. Supermendur is a good material, but always use layers if possible.
Thank you for an informative comment :) I haven`t heard about Supermendur before. Google says it has the highers flux density (2.4 T) among all metals 🤯
@@NickElectronics I'm building a magnetic bearing linear motor, and plan to use this material at some point. So far thin layered laser cut soft iron material has worked very well in tests.
@@NickElectronics eventually for experiments in generating electricity. I will change the magnets orientation to be radial and rollers be axial magnetized. Basically a motor and generator in one device
This video was very helpful, just a quick question. I'm doing an electromagnetic levitation project. How do I alter the electromagnetic force equation to take into account the distance at which that force is experienced
You should consider the distance to the object as an air gap. So the distance (gap) affects effetive permeability. There should be formulas in the internet which show how to calculate effective permeability of the material with the gap.
I provide formulas in the video. Resistance is only one parameter and usually process of magnet design is iterative process. Cause there are different limitations: resistance, as you said, magnet peak temperature, space limitations, its power etc. So you do calculations, check wether some parameters are out of tour limits, then recalculate it. Resistance of the wire in reality is a bad thing and preferable to have it as low as possible, but this increases wire thickness and forces you to use more complex control of the magnet. So for magnets you can buy online, resistance is used for limiting peak current as well. In such case by changing applied voltage, peak current and magnet force can be changed
@@NickElectronics Thanks for the info! I can't find a single good video on how to use the software. I'm getting close to understanding but if you ever did a video on how to use it I would watch it for sure!
I am doing my final project at university in Magnetic Levitation and I have been looking for documentation and resources on internet and books and this video explains everything and I was able to verify my equation for the force 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Good, short, to the point. Here is our (first) Lorentz force disk: 1) layers of aluminum foil, each layer separated by an insulator layer. This lamination of foil-insulator-foil-insulator etc. is positioned horizontally 2) magnetic field is positioned vertically and axially (through the center) of the lamination 3) small flat coils are positioned radially and right next to (but not touching) the foils lamination The coils are fed 16.28Mhz due to the skin depth that is based on the foil thickness, and induce RF current in the metal. The vertical B field and horizontal, induced RF currents at the 16.28Mhz rate in the metal layers develop the Lorentz force, and cause coherent accelerations (oscillations) of the charged particles in the metal layers at the 16.28Mhz rate At time 0:43 in the video, the text from your book "Basic Magnetics Theory" says: "When the core saturates...inductance is greatly reduced and large currents result" - we use this to advantage. We can use thin ferro layers in our Lorentz disk and run a low DC current radially through the ferro layers to control the RF current flowing in the hull of this device. Bill Sturgeon, 200 years ago (in the year 1824) invented *_"ARTIFICIAL MAGNETISM"_* - aka the electromagnet. We're working at artificial gravity devices.
Can anyone help me understand how to simulate a magnetic field as demonstrated in the video? Is this being done using a specific software or some kind of programming?
I wanted to ask a few questions, how did you get electrical steel in such small amount? Did you buy it wholesale with some other people? What is the realistic wire thickness if you are winding by hand? thanks in advance.
Hi, i think you can buy electrical steel roads from ebay, but then you need cut it, make a groove in it using lathe, which is not easy. Maybe the easiest option is to get an old transformer and use its core :)
Thanks! i been trying to make a small pneumatic solenoid valve and the coil is as weak as a dead horse. my core is likely carbon steel. i just grabbed some iron rod stock from a hardware store and threw it on my lathe. my coil is ~1300 turns of 31 AWG magnet wire and im trying to stick with 12v for the coil. but i have to crank it to 24v to make it work and it gets hot. im not sure how much my 0.5mm thin walled delrin bobbin effects the strength. starting with better permeable iron core should give it a boost of strength. i'm not sure what else to improve.
Things will go better with an iron core, that's for sure. What is the resistance of the coil u have? How hot it gets? Cause even a magnet from the video gets hot. For example : 12V * 12V / 35 Ohms = 4 Watts of power. If your solenoid is really small you have a high power density and it gets hot. Maybe try increasing the number of turns maintaining the same length. Thus, you would increase resistance, lower current, lower consumed power, but save the magnet strength.
@Tall Nick Electronics How does peak current impact saturation? I need to move ~1kg at a distance of ~8mm (air permeability) over 3-4mm. I wanted to use a supercapacitor to discharge a burst of 2.4k Amps into a solenoid. Do you think I will hit the same hard limit? I am aware saturation follows a logarithmic scale, but I wonder if I will still get a higher Tesla peak using a burst?
What you are talking about is a high power current generator. It is a little bit different from conventional electromagnet i think. You should look theory for a railgun if you want to create something that you mentioned. About the parameters you mentioned, i don`t know, cause it is a specific task that should be individually calculated :)
can you tell me which software you were using for simulation. I am working on one project so i need to do simulation. if you can tell me which software it is that would be such a help for m. Thank you.
I beilive for simple estimation, ChatGPT can do OK :) From the other side, it it easier to calculate it, making a simple experiment like this one: product.tdk.com/en/contact/faq/ferrite-0014.html You have to wind some coil turns around studied piece of metal, measure its inductance L and calculate effective permeability. Thirt method is doing simulation. But without any experience this one is the hardest. Cause without an experience how tf can you know if the results you get are correct or not? Good question, good question...
Hola, por lo que logre entender de lo que dijiste que por ejemplo el Hierro posee una saturacion magnetica de aproximadamente 2 teslas ¿Enctonces como seria posible diseñar un electroiman de mas de 2 teslas si el hierro es de los materiales con mayor permeabilidad magnetica?
Hello. You cannot reach higher Tesla value then material saturation limit is. So only using better material is possible. For example, FeCo alloy has somehow higher value of 2.45 T.
Awesome job explaining! Thank you. If you can learn the basic fundamentals and principles it will go a long way. My road to the electromagnet was much the same. You can go crazy learning too much. Maxwells equations. Yuck! Right-hand rule, force, magnetic field, flux density, permeability. Oh, yeh, total saturation. Then when you finally get it, you better learn some thermodynamics. The heat is an issue. Heat dissipation. Respect the current or Amps you need. Very fun project. You can learn much.
Thank you very much) Yeah, it is a long journey. When you think you understand how something works, there are some new variables pop in and change everything))) But, nothing is perfect and it is better to have a non-ideal solution rather than a perfect plan)
Wonderful information, so easy to process. How can we get a copy of the spreadsheet you show in the video? (I've emailed to request it but not heard a response as yet).
There are different types of steel. Some of it is good, some of it is bad. Electrical steel is good, for example. Look for one with high permeability (if you can get such an info). As I say in the video - "dont take any bolt you see..." :D Pure iron should work fine. But it gets rusty
I'm sorry but I'm having a hard time understanding what a pancake structure coil is. I'm trying to make a eletromagnet with an old microwave transformer, does the transformer have a pancake structure? Also, how do I get the amount of turns of the coil with the resistance like he did?
@@Assmannvini By pancake i mean flat, where coil is incorporated into metal part, like i show in the video. Calculate resistance using simple formula from wikipedia. Knowing length of wire and its thickness it is very easy
I mean length of the coil on the rod,not the total length of the wire. it is shown on the image when I show the B formula at the beginning of the video.
Maxwell Equations, like everything else in the world of electromagnetic waves :) But they are really hard to understand. So you can google Lorents Force as well )
@@NickElectronics Thanks! But could you explain the cross sectional area? Is it the rectangle or circle version of the cross-section? If not, how is it calculated?
@@jaydenzhou2194 Depends on the core you have, formula will be different. Imagine you slice a core with a perpendicular to its surface plane. The area will be cross section of two
Great contant can please make another video about the lifting force for an elctromagnet from a destance or elctromagnetic lavetation to lift a an iron ball for example
Hey, the equation for magnetic force in minute 2:33. i typed the numbers on screen into a calculator and i did not get 100 mN. I need this formula desperately, could you please explain what i am doing wrong?
Hey, yeah, ahaha. In video i say that diameter is 7mm and it`s cross section would be 38.5*10^-6 m^2, but i have 15*10^-6 in the formula for some reason, which is wrong :/// So there should be 38.5 instead of 15 in the second formula and result is around 100. Also, next time i gonna put approximately equal sign instead of equal, to not confuse people )
@@NickElectronics so 10^-6 is to convert from miliTeslas to Teslas? but (83*10^-3 )^2 equals 6.889*10^9 and (83^2 * 10^-6) equals 6.899*10^-3 which are different, which one should i use?
@@victorlopez-perez1887 Yes, to convert miliTeslas to Teslas. And no, they are not different. You must be doing something wrong. Check it again, please :) Put it to the calculator
It will be amazing if someone builds a tool where you place coils/magnet tipe, interna/external diameter and desired RPM (with highest torque associated) and it outputs a pcb. I have a bunch of applications and, even understanding most of these videos, I can't build this by myself (yet)
@@aravamudhankcs6476 i am not using it daily, so i am not specialist in it. I used it for the video to show processes in electromagnet, cause it is relatively simple tool for simple tasks. And i know there is not that much tutorial videos about it in the internet. If i had to simulate something complex, in more details, i would probably use Ansys Maxwell. Cause there are much bigger community and easier to find examples.
Hi, could you please clarify which exactly moment you mean? I attached some links but not sure you wanted exactly them :) shorturl.at/aUX23 shorturl.at/inCF1
@@R0M4NS623 Yeah, no problems with using wall plug power supply. Except mine had a limit of 1 Amp and it worked fine with an electromagnet form a store, but didn't quite work with a home made one due to a several mistakes i made :)
Use core material with low remanence. Or demagnetize core applying reverse polarity to the coil. But in case of demagnetizing field strength (current through coil) should be specific. You can experiment with it :)
@@NickElectronics what is an example of core material having "low rermanence"? Is it considered a type of iron somehow? I wish thing thing to be let go had more mass such that it might fall away. But, instead, it's like a paperclip!
To make assembling more fun and always cut wire with a right color) But for real, cause my non regulated power supply had a current limit and coil resistance was too low to stay below the min current level. So power supply current protection was turning off the power supply. Thus, I had to put limiting resistors)))
I don’t know what you wanted to say by using word average, but it is 0,98 Newtons required for holding 100 grams. Or approximately 1 Newton :) Answering second part - 1 Newton is enough to hold 102 grams 🙂
@@NickElectronics Thanks for reminding about that! Right, it's 0.98 N for 100 grams on average. Gravity isn't the same at every location in this World.
Y GREET YOU WITH RESPECT ! PLEASE YF YOU WANT TO HELP ME WITH SOME INFORMATION. HOW CAN I TRANSFORM A ROUND IRON PLATE, WITH A DIAMETER OF 50 CENTIMETERS, INTO A STRONG ELECTROMAGNET ? THANK YOU VERY MUCH !
Google industrial electromagnet. They are big and flat. I believe you have to use similar structure for your design. But overall, all principles described in the video can be applied to your case :) Good luck
Yes, one guy in the comment have noticed previously. I did a mistake when was putting the cross section value in the formula. If you pay attention, in the video i say that diameter is 7mm and it`s cross section would be 38.5*10^-6 m^2, but i have 15*10^-6 in the formula for some reason, which is wrong :/// So there should be 38.5 instead of 15 in the second formula and result is around 100mN. My bad.
thanks for the clarification. I am doing an experiment in which I am using electromagnets to accelerate a small aircraft and I've been trying to do research on how to increase the strength of my solenoid. Your video helps a lot. I noticed you mentioned that core materials reach their saturation limit, is there a way to increase the saturation limit of the core material? @@NickElectronics
@@aaronnunez248 So far as i know, you cannot increase materials B max value. Basically, when you reach saturation limit, that means that all “micro magnets” inside the material are oriented according to the field and no matter what you cant increase B for the that material 🤷♂️
@@NickElectronics. sadness. So even if I were to increase the voltage/ current through my solenoid or increase the number of turns I won't be able to get a larger amount of tesla out of my coil ? Because I need more than two tesla for my project or actually I just need a larger force output. So another question would be can I still increase the force output of my solenoid even though the flux density is limited.
@@aaronnunez248 If you have reached Tesla limit, the only way is to increase diameter. Number of turns and increased current would lead to nothing, unfortunately 🥲
Calculate and you will find out that many turns of small diameter wire or fewer turns of larger diameter wire in the same volume will give the same Force.
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i didnt know how much i needed to hear "dont take the first bolt you see, it might have low permeability and your magnet will suck" right now.
thank you
Ahahahaha :))) You are welcome!
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I like combination of verbal explanation, diagrams, and equations. This is the best explanation I have seen of magnetic force and electricty. And funny!
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I'm currently working on a low-cost tiny solenoid valve, and I believe this really helped me realise something that will really help me a lot
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Quite appealing way of explanation.
I found after a long search.
Suggestion:
Run alongside multiple language strips for better yield of subscription, if explained to more population ????????
Thank you for the commend. I would like to have multi language subtitles, but unfortunately i cannot control quality of the translation. Probably there will be a lot of mistakes if i use something like auto-translator :( However, maybe I will try to do it for this video and see how it goes ) Thank you for a suggestion
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Very nice and intuitive explanation of an electromagnet. I will use this as a teaching aid. Thanks!
You are welcome! :)
Excellent, I have learned everything about electromagnet in this video. Very good way of explaining. Thank you so much. Have a beautiful day, greetings from Cordoba, Argentina
Greetings from Poland too. Good that the video have helped you :) Have a good day 😀
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Thank you for your subscription. I will make new content for sure :)
This video is so awesome! One trick to reduce ohms is dividing the wire into equal segments. For instance 1500 feet ÷10 reduces wire link to 150' each. Increasing Tesla's and reducing ohms.
Core material is very critical. Supermendur is a good material, but always use layers if possible.
Thank you for an informative comment :)
I haven`t heard about Supermendur before. Google says it has the highers flux density (2.4 T) among all metals 🤯
@@NickElectronics I'm building a magnetic bearing linear motor, and plan to use this material at some point. So far thin layered laser cut soft iron material has worked very well in tests.
Wow, I`ve checked your channel and subscribed) It is really amazing. For what purpose are u building it? @@woodbrassandglass
@@NickElectronics eventually for experiments in generating electricity. I will change the magnets orientation to be radial and rollers be axial magnetized. Basically a motor and generator in one device
Good luck :)@@woodbrassandglass
This video was very helpful, just a quick question. I'm doing an electromagnetic levitation project. How do I alter the electromagnetic force equation to take into account the distance at which that force is experienced
You should consider the distance to the object as an air gap. So the distance (gap) affects effetive permeability. There should be formulas in the internet which show how to calculate effective permeability of the material with the gap.
how did you calculate number of turns? by resistance? how exactly?
I provide formulas in the video. Resistance is only one parameter and usually process of magnet design is iterative process. Cause there are different limitations: resistance, as you said, magnet peak temperature, space limitations, its power etc. So you do calculations, check wether some parameters are out of tour limits, then recalculate it. Resistance of the wire in reality is a bad thing and preferable to have it as low as possible, but this increases wire thickness and forces you to use more complex control of the magnet. So for magnets you can buy online, resistance is used for limiting peak current as well. In such case by changing applied voltage, peak current and magnet force can be changed
Love the mnemonics of the weight force of one apple for one newton.
Thank you for sharing, it was really interesting and helpful.
Hello Thank you for the great video! what was the simulation software you used in this video? is it only 1 program?
Hello. Yes it is one program called FEMM 4.2 :) Good luck
@@NickElectronics Thanks for the info! I can't find a single good video on how to use the software. I'm getting close to understanding but if you ever did a video on how to use it I would watch it for sure!
There are just few tutorials and few videos online, that is true) But unfortunately i have no plans to make such a video🥲 @@danielhoward6413
I am doing my final project at university in Magnetic Levitation and I have been looking for documentation and resources on internet and books and this video explains everything and I was able to verify my equation for the force 🙌🏻🙌🏻
It is very nice to hear :) Wish you good luck with your project!
Excellent explanation of what a real electromagnet is and how to consider making a really good one
Thank you very much :) Glad that it is useful.
Good, short, to the point. Here is our (first) Lorentz force disk:
1) layers of aluminum foil, each layer separated by an insulator layer. This lamination of foil-insulator-foil-insulator etc. is positioned horizontally
2) magnetic field is positioned vertically and axially (through the center) of the lamination
3) small flat coils are positioned radially and right next to (but not touching) the foils lamination
The coils are fed 16.28Mhz due to the skin depth that is based on the foil thickness, and induce RF current in the metal.
The vertical B field and horizontal, induced RF currents at the 16.28Mhz rate in the metal layers develop the Lorentz force, and cause coherent accelerations (oscillations) of the charged particles in the metal layers at the 16.28Mhz rate
At time 0:43 in the video, the text from your book "Basic Magnetics Theory" says: "When the core saturates...inductance is greatly reduced and large currents result" - we use this to advantage.
We can use thin ferro layers in our Lorentz disk and run a low DC current radially through the ferro layers to control the RF current flowing in the hull of this device. Bill Sturgeon, 200 years ago (in the year 1824) invented *_"ARTIFICIAL MAGNETISM"_* - aka the electromagnet. We're working at
artificial gravity devices.
Very good video, perfect understanding
Can anyone help me understand how to simulate a magnetic field as demonstrated in the video? Is this being done using a specific software or some kind of programming?
I used FEMM 4.2 software. It is free and quite simple
Amazing video, thanks.
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Thanks for the nice words :) I’m glad the video is helpful 😀
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Thanks, appreciate the feedback :)
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You are welcome :) I am glad it is usefull :)
I wanted to ask a few questions, how did you get electrical steel in such small amount? Did you buy it wholesale with some other people? What is the realistic wire thickness if you are winding by hand? thanks in advance.
Hi, i think you can buy electrical steel roads from ebay, but then you need cut it, make a groove in it using lathe, which is not easy. Maybe the easiest option is to get an old transformer and use its core :)
@@NickElectronics damn, completly forgot about that site haha. Thank you very much.
@@jokubasmirinas116 no problem
Thanks! i been trying to make a small pneumatic solenoid valve and the coil is as weak as a dead horse.
my core is likely carbon steel. i just grabbed some iron rod stock from a hardware store and threw it on my lathe.
my coil is ~1300 turns of 31 AWG magnet wire and im trying to stick with 12v for the coil. but i have to crank it to 24v to make it work and it gets hot.
im not sure how much my 0.5mm thin walled delrin bobbin effects the strength.
starting with better permeable iron core should give it a boost of strength. i'm not sure what else to improve.
Things will go better with an iron core, that's for sure. What is the resistance of the coil u have? How hot it gets? Cause even a magnet from the video gets hot. For example : 12V * 12V / 35 Ohms = 4 Watts of power. If your solenoid is really small you have a high power density and it gets hot. Maybe try increasing the number of turns maintaining the same length. Thus, you would increase resistance, lower current, lower consumed power, but save the magnet strength.
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I would like to learn more about the magnetic theory. Which book you read to find magnetic field strength? And to types of material to use.
Hi.
"Magnetism and magnetic materials" by COEY explains a lot
Awesome channel Just found out. If it''s possible, please share a link to the XLS calculator to find F, N, etc... Thanks
Hello. Thank you :)
Try this link. Please message me back if you can/can`t download it.
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which software did you use for simulation
FEMM 4.2
Best video I have seen
Thank you :)
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Sir, which is better,
Iron core of many layers or one solid iron piece.
For high frequency applications - many layers. For low frequency - solid piece is okay. Eddy currents is the reason :)
@Tall Nick Electronics How does peak current impact saturation? I need to move ~1kg at a distance of ~8mm (air permeability) over 3-4mm. I wanted to use a supercapacitor to discharge a burst of 2.4k Amps into a solenoid. Do you think I will hit the same hard limit? I am aware saturation follows a logarithmic scale, but I wonder if I will still get a higher Tesla peak using a burst?
What you are talking about is a high power current generator. It is a little bit different from conventional electromagnet i think. You should look theory for a railgun if you want to create something that you mentioned.
About the parameters you mentioned, i don`t know, cause it is a specific task that should be individually calculated :)
can you tell me which software you were using for simulation. I am working on one project so i need to do simulation. if you can tell me which software it is that would be such a help for m.
Thank you.
@@ShyamKalariya-q4g Hello, I was using FEMM 4.2. Good luck with your project!)
do you know some resources about estimating the effective permeability?
I beilive for simple estimation, ChatGPT can do OK :)
From the other side, it it easier to calculate it, making a simple experiment like this one:
product.tdk.com/en/contact/faq/ferrite-0014.html
You have to wind some coil turns around studied piece of metal, measure its inductance L and calculate effective permeability.
Thirt method is doing simulation. But without any experience this one is the hardest. Cause without an experience how tf can you know if the results you get are correct or not? Good question, good question...
Which simulation software have you used?
FEMM 4.2. It is free :)
Hola, por lo que logre entender de lo que dijiste que por ejemplo el Hierro posee una saturacion magnetica de aproximadamente 2 teslas ¿Enctonces como seria posible diseñar un electroiman de mas de 2 teslas si el hierro es de los materiales con mayor permeabilidad magnetica?
Hello. You cannot reach higher Tesla value then material saturation limit is. So only using better material is possible.
For example, FeCo alloy has somehow higher value of 2.45 T.
Awesome job explaining! Thank you. If you can learn the basic fundamentals and principles it will go a long way. My road to the electromagnet was much the same. You can go crazy learning too much. Maxwells equations. Yuck! Right-hand rule, force, magnetic field, flux density, permeability. Oh, yeh, total saturation. Then when you finally get it, you better learn some thermodynamics. The heat is an issue. Heat dissipation. Respect the current or Amps you need. Very fun project. You can learn much.
Thank you very much) Yeah, it is a long journey. When you think you understand how something works, there are some new variables pop in and change everything)))
But, nothing is perfect and it is better to have a non-ideal solution rather than a perfect plan)
Wonderful information, so easy to process. How can we get a copy of the spreadsheet you show in the video? (I've emailed to request it but not heard a response as yet).
@@electronicsluckydip Yo, thanks. If you have not answered your email, probably it got lost somewhere 😅 Write to me again :)
What software did you use to simulate the magnetic fields?
FEMM 4.2
What simulation software did you use?
Femm 4.2. It is a free software :)
@@NickElectronics Thanks!
@@NickElectronicsThis video helped me so much! How do you calculate the effective permeability of a "pancake" type core?
what magnet modelling program did you use ? Maybe you wrote it yourself ?
Its called FEMM 4.2. Its free :)
@@NickElectronics Thanks. I have installed it and will try the magnetics problem out soon.
Exactly the info I have been looking for, thank you! What is the field simulation software you are using?
you are welcome :) FEMM 4.0
Is normal steel or just pure iron fine?
There are different types of steel. Some of it is good, some of it is bad. Electrical steel is good, for example. Look for one with high permeability (if you can get such an info). As I say in the video - "dont take any bolt you see..." :D
Pure iron should work fine. But it gets rusty
I have a nail made from 99.9% iron so ill just use it.
@SimonsAstronomy Should work then
I'm sorry but I'm having a hard time understanding what a pancake structure coil is. I'm trying to make a eletromagnet with an old microwave transformer, does the transformer have a pancake structure? Also, how do I get the amount of turns of the coil with the resistance like he did?
@@Assmannvini By pancake i mean flat, where coil is incorporated into metal part, like i show in the video.
Calculate resistance using simple formula from wikipedia. Knowing length of wire and its thickness it is very easy
what do you mean by 'shorter length of the coil', total wire length, or length of the angled coil? I'm guessing wire length, but IDK!
I mean length of the coil on the rod,not the total length of the wire. it is shown on the image when I show the B formula at the beginning of the video.
Where is that Force equation coming from? what is it derived from?
Maxwell Equations, like everything else in the world of electromagnetic waves :) But they are really hard to understand. So you can google Lorents Force as well )
@@NickElectronics Thanks! But could you explain the cross sectional area? Is it the rectangle or circle version of the cross-section? If not, how is it calculated?
@@jaydenzhou2194 Depends on the core you have, formula will be different. Imagine you slice a core with a perpendicular to its surface plane. The area will be cross section of two
Great contant
can please make another video about the lifting force for an elctromagnet from a destance or elctromagnetic lavetation to lift a an iron ball for example
Thank for the comment. Maybe i will do that. Don`t know yet, cause i`m having luck of time now :)
What simulation software was used?
FEMM 4.2
Hey, the equation for magnetic force in minute 2:33. i typed the numbers on screen into a calculator and i did not get 100 mN. I need this formula desperately, could you please explain what i am doing wrong?
Hey, yeah, ahaha. In video i say that diameter is 7mm and it`s cross section would be 38.5*10^-6 m^2, but i have 15*10^-6 in the formula for some reason, which is wrong :/// So there should be 38.5 instead of 15 in the second formula and result is around 100.
Also, next time i gonna put approximately equal sign instead of equal, to not confuse people )
@@NickElectronics Thank You so much!!! ohh and why is there a (10^-6) being multiplied by 83^2?
@@victorlopez-perez1887 Cause (83 mT)^2 is ( 83*10^-3 )^2 which is 83^2 * 10^-6
@@NickElectronics so 10^-6 is to convert from miliTeslas to Teslas? but (83*10^-3 )^2 equals 6.889*10^9 and (83^2 * 10^-6) equals 6.899*10^-3 which are different, which one should i use?
@@victorlopez-perez1887 Yes, to convert miliTeslas to Teslas. And no, they are not different. You must be doing something wrong. Check it again, please :) Put it to the calculator
Your content and quality is pretty good, I wish you gain a lot of subscribers and views!!!
Thank you a lot :) One day. Everything is possible)
It will be amazing if someone builds a tool where you place coils/magnet tipe, interna/external diameter and desired RPM (with highest torque associated) and it outputs a pcb. I have a bunch of applications and, even understanding most of these videos, I can't build this by myself (yet)
I will try
What was the software that you are using ?
FEMM 4.2
@@NickElectronics is that only for magnet and electromagnet?....
@@aravamudhankcs6476 for magnetics mostly. Also for heat flow and current flow :)
@@NickElectronics is it possible for you to make a tutorial video
@@aravamudhankcs6476 i am not using it daily, so i am not specialist in it. I used it for the video to show processes in electromagnet, cause it is relatively simple tool for simple tasks. And i know there is not that much tutorial videos about it in the internet. If i had to simulate something complex, in more details, i would probably use Ansys Maxwell. Cause there are much bigger community and easier to find examples.
Any chance you put a link to the solenoid and battery source you used?
Hi, could you please clarify which exactly moment you mean? I attached some links but not sure you wanted exactly them :)
shorturl.at/aUX23
shorturl.at/inCF1
Nice! Thank you very much! So you used a wall plug for the solenoid and not a battery? Nice! Thank you!
@@R0M4NS623 Yeah, no problems with using wall plug power supply. Except mine had a limit of 1 Amp and it worked fine with an electromagnet form a store, but didn't quite work with a home made one due to a several mistakes i made :)
Great knowledgeable video, i am searching from long time, i have a business of magnets electromagners reparing in ghaziabad india
Hello, thanks for the comment :) It is really nice I help people all around the world. Wish you good luck with your business
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Creative video, thanks :)
I’m glad you enjoyed it :)
How do I prevent the stupid metal coil from turning into a permanent magnet due to use!? I want my magnet to let GO when power is off!!!
Use core material with low remanence. Or demagnetize core applying reverse polarity to the coil. But in case of demagnetizing field strength (current through coil) should be specific. You can experiment with it :)
@@NickElectronics what is an example of core material having "low rermanence"? Is it considered a type of iron somehow?
I wish thing thing to be let go had more mass such that it might fall away. But, instead, it's like a paperclip!
The electric vehicle starter armature usually uses these formulas
Hi!
Can you please send those calculations?
Yes) Need your mail or something :)
0:35 why is there a resistor bomb 💀
To make assembling more fun and always cut wire with a right color)
But for real, cause my non regulated power supply had a current limit and coil resistance was too low to stay below the min current level. So power supply current protection was turning off the power supply. Thus, I had to put limiting resistors)))
@@NickElectronics i thought you wouldn't reply 😅😛
@@justanormal16yearoldkid51 😳
It’s 0.98 Newtons on average in this World, right? Or is it 1N holds 98 grams on average?
I don’t know what you wanted to say by using word average, but it is 0,98 Newtons required for holding 100 grams. Or approximately 1 Newton :) Answering second part - 1 Newton is enough to hold 102 grams 🙂
@@NickElectronics Thanks for reminding about that! Right, it's 0.98 N for 100 grams on average. Gravity isn't the same at every location in this World.
@@ALL_ONE_SUN Ahah. You are right. Not the same around the Earth!)))
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Please Provide calculation excel file
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Somebody tell Me I should do easy things instead of Maxwell's equations level maths and so on daily. It's only 1pm and already feel tired.
May I add more CORES
Sure :)
Y GREET YOU WITH RESPECT ! PLEASE YF YOU WANT TO HELP ME WITH SOME INFORMATION.
HOW CAN I TRANSFORM A ROUND IRON PLATE, WITH A DIAMETER OF 50 CENTIMETERS, INTO A STRONG ELECTROMAGNET ?
THANK YOU VERY MUCH !
Google industrial electromagnet. They are big and flat. I believe you have to use similar structure for your design. But overall, all principles described in the video can be applied to your case :) Good luck
Super electromagnet
Haha :) Maybe it is, maybe it is..)
Anyone notice how his force equation doesn't actually give 100mN ??
Yes, one guy in the comment have noticed previously. I did a mistake when was putting the cross section value in the formula. If you pay attention, in the video i say that diameter is 7mm and it`s cross section would be 38.5*10^-6 m^2, but i have 15*10^-6 in the formula for some reason, which is wrong :/// So there should be 38.5 instead of 15 in the second formula and result is around 100mN. My bad.
thanks for the clarification. I am doing an experiment in which I am using electromagnets to accelerate a small aircraft and I've been trying to do research on how to increase the strength of my solenoid. Your video helps a lot. I noticed you mentioned that core materials reach their saturation limit, is there a way to increase the saturation limit of the core material? @@NickElectronics
@@aaronnunez248 So far as i know, you cannot increase materials B max value. Basically, when you reach saturation limit, that means that all “micro magnets” inside the material are oriented according to the field and no matter what you cant increase B for the that material 🤷♂️
@@NickElectronics. sadness. So even if I were to increase the voltage/ current through my solenoid or increase the number of turns I won't be able to get a larger amount of tesla out of my coil ? Because I need more than two tesla for my project or actually I just need a larger force output. So another question would be can I still increase the force output of my solenoid even though the flux density is limited.
@@aaronnunez248 If you have reached Tesla limit, the only way is to increase diameter. Number of turns and increased current would lead to nothing, unfortunately 🥲
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Calculate and you will find out that many turns of small diameter wire or fewer turns of larger diameter wire in the same volume will give the same Force.
Because of the resistance of the wire ?