As you will have seen from the waveforms in my posted sims, the sims model each coil being energised by a passing magnet more or less continuously, i.e near 100% "duty cycle". However, that would require no, or very litle, angular spacing between magnets.
In your machine, what is the magnet diameter (assuming magnets with circular faces), how many magnets per wheel face, and at what radius from the wheel centre are the magnet centres? Those figures would give a better idea of the real-world duty cycle, on which the average available power from the machine depends (among other things).
I suspect you may need a lot more coils to get the machine output required for driving that fan. It would be far more energy-efficient to power fan blades mechanically by whatever drives the wheel.
did you get to use the information in the end?the rubber disk are 30cm in diameter the magnets are 2.5cm in diameter 3mm thick doubled up to make 6mm of magnet, the magnets are situated 7.5 cm from the axis there are 8 magnets either side or 16 if you double them up but effectively 8 magnets either side! going to put 10 on either side of the spare wheel and run it up and give it a go also I might add that the coil diameter of the new 7ohm sort are about 5cm and the cores are bolts with a diameter of 1cm but they have a nut on making them about 16mm, I think when a north is passing a coil - when it passes the bolt a south should be approaching (for the 10 magnet arrangement) at the moment with the 8 magnet arrangement the space between the magnets is roughly 2.5cm (I could fit a magnet between the mounted magnets snuggly)
but I am putting on 10 magnets not 16 so there will still be a gap between them! and I think that if the magnets have a 5cm gap centre to centre, it would be nice! it runs at 600 rpm nicely plus the two extra magnets at 600 rpm would make 50Hz!
If the magnets were at a greater radius their tangential velocity would be greater and so would the coil voltage, albeit the coil pulse would be narrower.and the wheel is actuall 28cm in diameter and the magnets center is 7cm from the center of the disk
It gives a better estimate of the duty cycle. Looking more like 60% with 10 magnets, compared to 50% with 8.did you get to use the information in the end?
using this sense, would 16 magnets be 100%It gives a better estimate of the duty cycle. Looking more like 60% with 10 magnets, compared to 50% with 8.
Your 5 voltage sources are all the same: SINE(0 14 50 0 0 0). There is no phase difference.
Your diodes lack the model. You need to assign a valid model to the diodes (right click). See my example below
This is my result with 3 sources and 120 degrees phase shift:
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By my calculations, using the dimensions you provided, the maximum number of magnets you could fit round a 7cm radius circle would be 18, for 100%. So 16 comes close. I guess the need to separate alternating poles or not would depend on the field characteristics of the magnets.using this sense, would 16 magnets be 100%
2 x pi x 7 / 2.5. I thought you were using a different wheel from the one in the pic.how did you calcultate it?