The ‘Infinity’ Motor/Generator

A generator design put forward by Mark Wesling has the promise of particularly high performance. Unusually, the
rotor drive is achieved through the use of four or more independent small high-speed motors, each mounted on
the main rotor and each provided with it’s own smaller rotor as shown here:
Each of the motors spins it’s rotor in a counter-clockwise direction and the inertial effect of this causes the main
rotor to rotate in the opposite direction, giving it a clockwise motion. A ring of pick-up coils absorb some of the
rotating magnetic fields produced by magnets embedded in the small rotors and when current is drawn from these
coils, the Lanz Law drag causes the large rotor to rotate in the opposite direction. The greater the current drawn
from those coils, the greater the speed of the rotor. To prevent the main rotor from running at an excessive
speed, the axle shaft can be extended and a conventional magnet/coil arrangement used to keep the rotational
speed down to the desired level since the Lenz Law drag can be used as a brake as well as providing additional
power output.

While the initial drawing shows 9-volt motors, each with it’s own battery mounted on the rotor, an alternative
arrangement is to place insulated slip-rings on the axle shaft and use spring-loaded brushes to provide the current
for all four motors. There is no particular need for the motors to be 9-volt types as almost any type can be used,
including the more common 12-volt types. A possible arrangement for the commutator and brushes and the
conventional power generation/braking magnet rotor and pick-up coils is shown here:
This view omits the main rotor ring of pick-up coils in order to allow the commutator and brushes for the motors to
be seen and not be obscured behind those coils. The physical layout for the main pick-up coils is shown below,
and the technique of coil-shorting five times at the sine-wave peak can boost the output power by anything up to a
hundred times.

The coils shown appear to have a solid core, it is envisaged that the speed of rotation will be too great for a
ferrous core and so either ferrite or air-core coils will be needed.