CodeRage
Death by Magumba!
I was sitting at work today extremely bored with my current project and had poly phase motors on the brain.
I am not discrediting the fan based stir plate. It is simple and seems to work wel; but, there might be another way to skin this cat.
First of all, does any body have problems with the fan based stirrers? Like thrown stirbars, dust, size, and noise?
I was thinking of maybe setting up a 3 or 4 pole system with 6 or 8 electromagnets arranged in a circle. Then cycle and swap polarities of the poles to spin the stirbar above it. The stir bar becomes the rotor essentially. It does sound like overkill, but there are no moving parts. Which I thought was pretty nifty.
What do you guys think?
I am not discrediting the fan based stir plate. It is simple and seems to work wel; but, there might be another way to skin this cat.
First of all, does any body have problems with the fan based stirrers? Like thrown stirbars, dust, size, and noise?
I was thinking of maybe setting up a 3 or 4 pole system with 6 or 8 electromagnets arranged in a circle. Then cycle and swap polarities of the poles to spin the stirbar above it. The stir bar becomes the rotor essentially. It does sound like overkill, but there are no moving parts. Which I thought was pretty nifty.
What do you guys think?