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No, you didn't explain it in simple terms or even not at all, because that would require drawing opposing forces vectors and you didn't do that. "it's canceling because disk moves " - this is not enough.Baluncore said:I have explained it in simple terms, but you have not understood it.
Placing a small magnet under the disc so the field won't cross the wires is making things more complicated? nice.Baluncore said:You seem to think that by making it more complex, you will understand it more easily. That is well illustrated by your placing the short bar-magnet, under the disc.
I do not believe that drawing force vectors in paint is an impossible task, 3d animation is not needed, this can be achieved by making few pictures but I can make 3d model as well but first I have to know what is going on.Baluncore said:Judging by your 2D diagrams, you do not think in 3D, which is a major handicap where an inherently 3D cross-product is involved. I believe that would explain your problematic understanding of the need for brushes.
First we should start from this: "Working principle of a homopolar generator: due to Lorentz force FL negative charges are driven towards center of the rotating disk, so that a voltage shows up between its center and its rim, with the negative pole at the center."
So disc is charged and brushes collect this charge (no canceling here yet) current flow from the edge to the center of the disc.
Is the disc also charged when there are no brushes?? if so then soldering wires to the disc is causing voltage doubling and canceling, now I want to see this opposing canceling vectors. I think that a need to see those canceling vectors is realistic and reasonable.
This forum exist to explain things, you can give up, stop answering my questions and assume that I'm retarded or whatever, that's fine, I will ask elsewhere till I find answers and diagrams.