A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
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A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
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Re: A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
#2A tesla Model 3 motor already is partially a reluctance motor. This youtube video describes it rather well, and I'd recommend giving it a watch [1]. Notice the air gaps - thats the reluctance part of the rotor.
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#3It’s always the same, “ creates revolutionary thing”. And then nothing comes out of it.
Re: A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
#4It’s always the same, “ creates revolutionary thing”. And then nothing comes out of it.
Waiting for the "yeah, but..." comments now.
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#5What exactly is novel about this? I've participated in ISEF before and the amount of marketing/hyping and the lack of knowledgeable judges is frustrating. ISEF also clearly have a thorough fetish with patents. If you check the box on your form suggesting you may look into patenting in the future, your project performs a lot better.
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#6Inspiring story all round but this paragraph stood out for me:
“I didn't have a mentor to help me, really, so each time a motor failed, I had to do tons of research and try and troubleshoot what went wrong,” he says. “But eventually on the 15th motor, I was able to get a working prototype.”
I imagine most 17 year old would not have kept going 15+ times until they arrived at something which worked.
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#7> Instead of using air gaps, Sansone thought he could incorporate another magnetic field into a motor. This would increase this saliency ratio and, in turn, produce more torque. His design has other components, but he can’t disclose any more details because he hopes to patent the technology in the future.
ah well great, we'll all just twiddle our thumbs waiting on that then instead of collaborating on how to integrate the good ideas here into existing large scale manufacturing.
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#8"I heard some guy invented a car that gets 100mpg and lasts for 30 years, but the auto industry and oil industry had him killed."
Re: A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
#9It’s always the same, “ creates revolutionary thing”. And then nothing comes out of it.
That's because the "rest of the story" isn't as good. With a little digging you often find 's parent(s) are a researcher that studies that exact was building, or somehow got a job working at a lab that works on , or 's isn't as novel as article leads you to believe often with being known and unused due to some obvious flaw.
Re: A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
#10Inspiring story all round but this paragraph stood out for me: “I didn't have a mentor to help me, really, so each time a motor failed, I had to do tons of research and try and troubleshoot what went wrong,” he says. “But eventually on the 15th motor, I was able to get a working prototype.” I imagine most 17 year old would not have kept going 15+ times until they arrived at something which worked.
Really? In my observations only 17 year olds have the time and patience to do crap like this.