Mendocino Motor

The Mendocino Motor is a great project in which you make a solar powered, magnetically levitating motor. We use a 1 inch square balsa block to serve as the rotor, cut the corners off with a 1/4 inch router bit. The motor is wrapped with 32 guage magnet wire. the solar panels are 3/4 inch by 1 3/4 inch cells with tabs. When it is running well, it goes pretty fast.

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Mendocino motor measurements - Link
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