Hello AAC, with this being my first post, allow me to introduce myself, My name is J. Cox and I am active duty military, I teach automotive mechanics to new military member starting their career. Out of all the automotive objectives we teach, I particularly enjoy teaching basic electrical we basically scratch the surface with theory, laws, follow current flow, a few semiconductors (transistors diodes etc..)
With that said I would love to start a personal project to incorporate into my lesson, however it is beyond my scope of expertise, and hopefully I will be able to have AAC help and guide me along the way.
Because automobiles use electro magnets to control essentially everything on a vehicle these days, I want to create a series of electro magnets that pulse on and off spinning a permanent magnet on its axis, and to complicate things, I dont want it to be something simple as a DC motor.
Heres what I propose:
Each colored circle represents an electro magnet and each color has 2 electro magnets on a circuit (one spun clockwise and the other counter clockwise) to create a north and south pole, and when the direction of current is changed they will flip.
This part is done, here are my 6 electro magnets:
Note: that I bumped up to a thicker gauge wire than what is in the picture.
What I need help with is to design a circuit to have the electro magnets energize and collapse in succession so that north and south poles are constantly rotating counter clockwise in order to rotate a permanent magnet.
I want this to be able to speed up, slow down with the help of a potentiometer, and hopefully randomly run at varying speeds on its own.
Is this something that you guys can help me with? If there are circuits already out there that I can modify slightly to fit my needs that would be great. But if we have to go from the ground up, Im game. Just please keep in mind that Im enlisted and Im not serving my country for the pay check
, so I dont have money to throw around. On a budget is key. The good news is that I already have a DC power source that will be perfect for this application. It is 12vdc with 7 amps constant. I have already used it to simulate the electro magnets and it works great.
I am eager to get this project started...
With that said I would love to start a personal project to incorporate into my lesson, however it is beyond my scope of expertise, and hopefully I will be able to have AAC help and guide me along the way.
Because automobiles use electro magnets to control essentially everything on a vehicle these days, I want to create a series of electro magnets that pulse on and off spinning a permanent magnet on its axis, and to complicate things, I dont want it to be something simple as a DC motor.
Heres what I propose:

Each colored circle represents an electro magnet and each color has 2 electro magnets on a circuit (one spun clockwise and the other counter clockwise) to create a north and south pole, and when the direction of current is changed they will flip.
This part is done, here are my 6 electro magnets:


Note: that I bumped up to a thicker gauge wire than what is in the picture.


What I need help with is to design a circuit to have the electro magnets energize and collapse in succession so that north and south poles are constantly rotating counter clockwise in order to rotate a permanent magnet.
I want this to be able to speed up, slow down with the help of a potentiometer, and hopefully randomly run at varying speeds on its own.
Is this something that you guys can help me with? If there are circuits already out there that I can modify slightly to fit my needs that would be great. But if we have to go from the ground up, Im game. Just please keep in mind that Im enlisted and Im not serving my country for the pay check
I am eager to get this project started...