Solenoid engine

[Tom Brown]

[video=youtube;uhYEdD94vH0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhYEdD94vH0#t=92[/video]

 

[Mandelon]

Those are like the little solenoids that run my sprinkler valves?


How do some people have so much free time? :rolleyes

 

[BDMar]

That's pretty cool. I want to know what the copper colored camshaft looking thing is on the left. Appears to have something to do with speed control.

 

[CampbellCarl]

That's pretty cool. I want to know what the copper colored camshaft looking thing is on the left. Appears to have something to do with speed control.

I watched that myself and believe it to be a camshaft that triggers solenoid firing via micro switches at the end of those wire 'fingers' that are following the camshaft lobes.....

I dunno...just my guess...

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[Tom Brown]

I watched that myself and believe it to be a camshaft that triggers solenoid firing via micro switches at the end of those wire 'fingers' that are following the camshaft lobes.....

I think the cam is made of copper and the wires that touch the cam lobs are copper so that appears to be the timing. It appears to be a sort of cam/distributor.