Lego Piston Power: Making ELECTROMAGNETIC Piston Engines

The high gear reduction makes me think of an old fashioned tractor. I'd love to see you make one of those like this and see how strong it could be!

To make the engine bigger, it takes more construction time, so make it big.......

big v4

Please make more engines!

Yes - a v engine definately

I'd love to see a minuscule V8 micro RC car

For correct timing I would use 90* crankposition

v12 when????

Where did you get the Lego piston

I think he likes magnets

Et voila

Try make a two incline electromagnetic motor or even more!

I think a water pump would be cool if thats even possible with lego

Personally, i think you should get a 3d printers and print custom lego parts but just a suggestion

Make a v4 engine and use a gear shifter

this "car" more look like some van or truck

does this count as electric or Liquid Lego Petrol?

Yeah I'd rather not smell that plastic it's toxic

Power a pulley crane with that engine.

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make v12

can you make an auto turrent with it?

You can double the torque output of the solenoid engines without changing anything about their physical design

You can do this by reversing the polarity of the coils with each stroke. The best way to achieve this is by using a what is known as an H bridge. A four transistor configuration that instead of merely turning the coils on and off, flips the polarity of the coil to both attract and repel the magnets essentially doubling the torque

Watching this video sent me down a rabbit hole of "Wait, solenoid engines are a real thing, right? Are they used for anything?" Apparently they do have applications, but like you said, they are not very efficient. It would probably be a good idea to hook up a Potentiometer to the power supply, so you can actually have some throttle control.

I think the smaller scale would be cooler, I'm curious how you will solve more complex timing arrangements though, for example for a V8 I think you might need some kind of hacked together distributor cap and I'm curious how you'd do it.

why not have multiple magnets going to help smooth out the vibrations

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Bro all the parts you are using is MADE IN CHINA 😂😂😂

What about super capacitor the have the coil on the load. Add a 1kΩ resistor for longevity. The cap charges when not in contact with the switch, then when it is it should dump the voltage into the coil(inductor) causing a mechanical exchange and changing the switch back to off. The plate of copper on the other end of the flywheel is the switch I'm referring to. It's similar to an electrical relay switch but using mechanical energy to switch the larger side of the relay. Adding ball bearings to the rubber Lego wheel should give it more weight for the flywheel part too, even help with balancing it.

Btw yes I have an electrical engineering degree.

I vote you do both! I'd love to see a 4-piston boxer or even a v6 or v8, as well as an itty-bitty one!

I'd also love to see you build a hit and miss engine this way! 😁

i want to see tiny magnetic pistons

you should try making mechanism for reversing the polarity on the other half of the stroke (so that at first the coil would repell the magnet then pull it back)

It would be fun to set up a microcontroller to control the timing, so you could optimize the advance and duration for each RPM, with lookup tables.

Please of course

Make it bigger,stronger and try to make it that it has 4 magnetic thing

The tank wasn't working because of the fly wheel

Make a cylinder sleeve coil and reverse the polarity once the magnet is halfway through the stroke. It will keep the coil on longer, giving you more power per stroke.

@JamiesBrickJams I actually had this idea for an electromagnet engine at school once. It would use just electromagnets and purely mechanical timing with copper tape to transfer the current to turn it on!

Came here from a TikTok clip because I was so interested

The most investment grade assembled products I have ever known

Love me a good, long stroke.










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I really want to see more of this idea explored in a other video

Inline 6 engine would be crazy