The ring, not the stack
How EMICs, the electromagnetic ICs behind the Autocar torque-plate drive, make thrust: two or more EMICs pulling and pushing on one another with impulses, round a ring. Not a stack of plates pushing up. Narration plays in your browser.
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The old picture of EMIC thrust: a stack of torque plates, with a pulse running up it. But thrust is not a stack pushing upward.
Thrust comes from two or more EMICs pulling and pushing on one another with impulses, in a round motion. There are other layouts, but most are circular.
A fixed ring of EMICs fires in turn. The one just ahead of a turning EMIC pulls it. The one just behind pushes it. The pulses walk round the ring and carry the turning EMICs with them.
On the Autocar, the ring is made of torque plates, wired as phases A, B and C, 120 degrees apart. Thirty plates: 440 kilonewtons of thrust, 86 percent efficient.
Pull ahead. Push behind. Round the ring.
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© Christopher Gabriel Brown (CRI-ONE), cri-one.com