Tom Vales Demo

10/5/15

On September 28, Tom Vales of the Engineering Department, a professor of Suffolk University came to our Freshman Seminar Class to demo a bunch of motors and power related machines. The first thing the show us was the Mendocino solar power motor, a teaching tool instead of a actually generator. It will run at  2,000 rpm under the sun. As we can see there are silver magnet on the shaft which reacts to the magnets on the base therefore keeping the solar motor hanging in free space. It demonstrate repulsion or magnetic reactions. The solar cell gets energy from the light source then sending it through the coil and which create a magnetic field; reacting to the magnet under the motor, turning it 90 degrees and it continues that. Mendocino Motor

After showing us the Mendocino solar power motor, he showed us the rocking armature which with power rock the arm back and forth which turns the wheel. the power would go through the coil then send the power to that plate on the left which cause it to rock back and forth pulling and pushing and pulling the “arm” rotating the wheel.

After that he showed us the Stirling generator, with a cup of hot water, he placed the generator on top of the cup covering it like a lid. After a few seconds, the pistons started to move up and down. He states that the materials that have the least friction will create more power. Stirling means steam power.

After that he showed us the Tesla Coil and fluorescent tubes. Firstly  by sending energy through a coil  it create power and using a metal nail type it send it up and if you hold anything close like fluorescent tubes it will light up. Fluorescent tubes contains Neon, Argon, Krypton, or Xenon; noble gases and also mercury. It lights up in “contact” with power. In the picture it shows him holding a staff with a light bulb in the center with wires running from the tip to the end of the staff; the other end of the staff have this metal tip which attracts electricity and the other is duct taped. The power have a skin effect where it just goes through only the outer layer of the conductor AC alternating current and goes over his skin or clothing.

He then showed us the Tesla Technology Violet ray machine which was rumored to be able to cure cancer and other diseases. There were many attachment created to solve many different other problems. Their basic construction was invented prior to 1900 by Nikola Tesla.