1363 Introduction To Generators

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[@ArtisticImpressionsbyBobRouth]

I watched this very video in 1971 while in training in the US Navy. What a blast from my past. Thanks Rob for sharing it with us. It is an excellent film. Especially from a new perspective.

[@stevetobias4890]

Generally I think that gerators are pretty cool

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I agree mate - I think most of what anyone needs to know is right there - an awesome job they did

[@l0I0I0I0]

Bravo!!! Military electronic training manuals are also amazingly easy to understand. Never seen anything written clearer, not even close.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I agree mate - they are just plain awesome

[@edxr12]

I love these old D.o.D. videos. The information is always so clearly explained and in perfect order to understand the topic well.

[@donaldhanson2908]

Time and Place right? 18 year old draftees who showed some aptitude in the testing. (I don't recall the acronym, ASVB?)

[@gravelydon7072]

They do that because they have to take into account who they are dealing with. While the military gets its share of intelligent people, it also gets its share of those who are not so intelligent so they have to set the training to encompass all.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I agree mate

[@benjaminhildebrand2220]

This is (almost) as dumbed down as a Ford technician training manual, only not insulting. :)

[@hippie-io7225]

Thank you for focusing on "first principles". This approach can support high success rates in many endeavors. First principles can get us humans out of the weeds of opinion, conjecture and even out right stupidity.

[@donaldhanson2908]

I admire your optimism! But we live in a bell curve universe. :)

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I agree mate - I just worry about how many don't pay attention to first principles

[@gravelydon7072]

Well I would doubt the last one. 'Cause everyone knows you can't fix stupid.😮

[@MrMassivefavour]

I'm a big Fan of General Generalisations about Generators

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol - everyone should be mate lol

[@declanhart1617]

Generally speaking, I agree.

[@azlandpilotcar4450]

The U.S. Air Force was still using that same video in the late 1970s for training in fundamental electronics. Funny to see it again. Doubly so since I saw that video when I was about 19 (it was a let down, since I'd had at least that level of hobbyist and high school education) and you say that you didn't understand the complete, correct, proper scientific explanation received at the same age. Thanks for this.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I did pure maths and statistics at college mate when I got to uni mechanics as a branch of mathematics was entirely new to me

[@soosgabor100]

I love those old videos they're so clear. Ex: differential gear, or suspension for cars the illustration is good.( English is not my first language but the American old videos are way easier to understand)

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

they really do a good job

[@grommie]

Very nice, thanks. I don't understant it, but it gives me an idea.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

that's all that needs to happen mate!

[@ed-jf3xh]

I think I saw this film when I was in military technical school, 1970. I recognize the narrator's voice from several training films.

[@edwardhughes352]

That's amassing. So clear and concise.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I agree

[@jdsr7423]

There's a lot to be said for the older simpler description vs today's all to technical one's 😉 I essentially quit school and started working around the 6th grade so generalities are the foundation of where I start on anything new🤠

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

it's the best way to go mate

[@martinlicht1969]

Thanks, love that video from my childhood. They have good ones on motors too done with same clarity.

[@ArbitraryOnslaught]

1:44 lol great way to explain that. Conductance, Inductance, Resistance, Impedance. You will see CIRI everywhere. just waking up, taking a breathe, walking, swimming, you begin to see all sorts of tables, night stands, and beyond.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

for sure mate

[@C-M-E]

A very welcome video! I'm fantastic with mechanical design, though advanced electronics has always been my undoing. I like to think this aids me in coming up with ridiculous ideas that are unbound from logical processes, but more often than not it spawns an idea so complicated that it takes me a year to figure out how to make it feasible. "Don't know what you don't know."

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I certainly hope it does mate - would love to see what you come up with

[@C-M-E]

@@ThinkingandTinkering Just waiting on a good spot of weather this week to get back to testing my Slim Pickens version of flash graphene, though much more approachable sans the reactor-level of a capacitor bank. I'm quite excited if successful as it potentially could yield huge volumes of convertible graphene in _Large_ quantity. Your vids have always been an inspiration though and get me motivated to try stuff like this! Gonna have to spring for membership Soon!

[@angelusmendez5084]

I really liked this one, thanks!

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

awesome mate

[@vicmaggio8181]

I watched so many videos but by far your explanations are the best. Thank you. Victor Maggio Papua New Guinea

[@intelligenttinkering]

Really enjoyed that thanks for sharing mate 👍

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

awesome mate - I think it was a really clear way of getting hold of what happens in a generator

[@AndreaDingbatt]

@Intelligent tinkering Hello there, nice to meet you, I have subbed to your channel from here!! I hope you keep up making your videos!! Both me and Mr Dingbatt enjoyed your content very much!! Andrea. XxX

[@JehuMcSpooran]

Thank you so much for linking this video. If there is on thing the US Army did right was make great training videos. I saw one a while back about planetary gearsets and differentials and it just made so much sense. It would be awesome to get a full library of these videos.

[@digitaldreamer5481]

Aloha Robert, I have to say that this is one of your best informed videos that you’ve done this year. This and your wall turbine generator you did two months ago, which I, unfortunately, never viewed the final two videos of, for life gets in the way sometimes. A big Mahalo to you, Robert! I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! From Todd WH6DWF in Honolulu, Hawaii. 73’

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

thank you mate and thank you for taking the time to say so - a merry xmas to you and yours

[@lightcapmath2777]

Wow was made when i was born.. Thank you RMS....DVD:)

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Coxeysbodgering]

This is being pinned, even at stupid o'clock and couple hours sleep it makes sense. Thanks Rob! Take care and stay safe, Mike.

[@YoureNowOnTV]

Generatorisations 🤔 I'm certainly "Self Excited", because I click on Play on these videos. 😁

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol

[@chucksneedmoreland]

Your videos are a real treat to watch

[@l0I0I0I0]

Would love to see a vid on possible ways to improve generators, low cost and not requiring a team of engineers?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I hear you mate

[@l0I0I0I0]

@@ThinkingandTinkering I spoke with an engineer in Germany I think, that made this spinning device like a top that could spin several million rpms. So it had a tiny form factor and very high voltage and low amps. I forget how much power it could produce but having such high potential voltage, that even a small amount of current would be very high power. Perhaps a good candidate for your factal capacitor device as a tiny highbrid temporary energy storage device? Where were you planning on harvesting high voltage energy from using the fractal caps?

[@mikeconnery4652]

Excellent video now I have a better understanding of what is happening.

[@totherarf]

I am sure they used it in College when I went there! To be fair it was a lot newer back then ;o)

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cutting edge probably lol

[@muhammadrafiqulislamkhan6994]

Very usefull video. Simple explain. Video clips are very helpful. Hope makes us more to clearly understand this topic. Thank you.

[@wobblycentaur]

I think this video is by the "Jam Handy" film company. I learned how transmissions work from a film by them. I think your explanations are as comprehendible as theirs, Cheers!

[@planeteuropa]

It would be very useful if all electrical measurements show voltage and current against the specific load.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

no it wouldn't - it would be good in some cases and a waste of time in others - sorry mate - but that's just the way it is

[@Twistedmetal-qe8kx]

Excellent video, thanks

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

Glad you liked it!

[@oildalestar]

Great job

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

cheers mate

[@hardergamer]

Basic but super clear.

[@piconano]

I watched your video and the army link. Thank you.

[@pulesjet]

In the USA Training films one was not expected to know how to read. LOL

[@iowasongs]

Hey, as an American....I think they were crack on with their pronunciations of the bits and bobs mate....

[@paulmaydaynight9925]

15.05 so... analogous to a battery curve, a super cap curve & finally a compound ultra battery+cap curve

[@mikeconnery4652]

If those small generators were at the ends of your windmill blades then you might get a higher more useful ram. Also, keep in mind that the tips of each blade is producing a tiny tornado. Possibly unused energy. How to put all that together? Well you have a pretty good base of intelligent followers.

[@bettyswallocks6411]

💡 Thanks!

[@TabooRevolution13]

Can you make one generator charge a capacitor that boosts to also run a 2nd generator on a flywheel and make them all run themselves?

[@mikebond6328]

Short answer = No. Long answer = No.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

well - I know what I think the answer is - and that is no - I think it will just run down - think of it as water - if you endlessly pour one cup of water into another you can keep filling the cups - but if you take a sip out every time your pour it - it will empty out and you will need some more water from somewhere.

[@TabooRevolution13]

@@ThinkingandTinkering Perhaps... When you have 1 motor power 2 generators can the 2 power the 1st motor?

[@AndreaDingbatt]

@@TabooRevolution13 Hello, I hope you don't mind me butting in, but I think that, although it sounds like it may work... It would probably be like a "Perpetual Motion Machine" sort of thing... As such, I'm afraid that it would go against the physics of Earth, unless Quantum theory proves me wrong... If you can re-watch the video, I am certain that you will find your answer in there... ( Unless you didn't Use any of the electricity you'd generate?!) Also, I ought to " but out" as I think that you got the Best answer from Mr Murray - Smith!! Kind Regards, A. Dingbatt. Best of luck with any and all generating projects, ~ we need people like you to help keep our beautiful planet alive!

[@TabooRevolution13]

@@AndreaDingbatt I have a clock that has has been running with no power for a few decades. It has a capacitor... and a pendulum.

[@markmilligan6616]

Robert, surely an Alternator is already a generator?

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

it is

[@Barskor1]

Picture a converter shaped this way busbar straight line wires bent to half circle back to a straight line to another busbar copy that to the other side IMO this ends the impedance problem old style converters/generators have.

[@LordStrayCitizen]

Can you teach us about magnet permeability please , like your content :)

[@GavinGoodman68]

Can you turn a pond fountain pump into a mini hydro electric generator ?

[@dexterconnolly3696]

Interesting

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I thought so too

[@Jon-fs2zj]

The obvious answer is to build a linear generator. Why rotate? Stay at peak induction the whole time?

[@happydrones9187]

Got through half.. Series parallel lost me.. Damn fine vid..

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

that one is a bit tough to get I agree

[@gleambrite2679]

So many pattens and teaching lessons make things so difficult on purpose. Even college and school. They deliberately try to make things be and look difficult. I also believe in understanding the basic principles first. Then you can get into the weeds. Technically, you can take this topic and break it down to the atom and quantum level. Even talk about probability theory and Maxwells equations. Yet, you don't need to know all that. Basic ohms law would almosr enough.

[@8ank3r]

Mathematical model of a motor in motion. ROFL Say that three times quickly and we have a new blooper short :)

[@justinweatherford8129]

Just being goofy. A table becomes a stool after it is consumed and has finished being digested. Lol I don't suggest this unless you are a termite or a beaver. Lol

[@gravelydon7072]

Adding to that, anything you eat becomes a stool just like any vegetable you toss in the air comes down squash.

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

lol

[@AndreaDingbatt]

@@gravelydon7072 🤣👍

[@nathanlewis5682]

I will have to assemble my own generator. I have the misfortune of being stuck in California. California wants to ban all generators and other gas powered equipment soon. If I am caught with a gas powered generator they will throw me into the 'drop your pants and bend over' California State Prison known as the Q in Marin County.

[@gravelydon7072]

Run it on Brown's gas. Then see what they have to say as the exhaust is Hydronium Hydroxide.

[@fusiondensity3287]

First

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

awesome

[@malcolmquick3708]

Didn't understand a word of this video please make it easy for the uneducated to understand

[@lukiepoole9254]

Lol imagine there is such thing as "induced current". Complete BS 🤣

[@ThinkingandTinkering]

I see