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Pendulum test for plate in and out magnetic field

De slinger opstelling.

 
The plate consists of stacked small transformer steel plates 11×1.5×0.5 mm and 18 mm high. This is to avoid Eddy currents! 
On one side of the pendulum plate is the permanent magnet. 
On the other side is a coil. This coil can be switched on or off. 
With this set-up we can test with stronger coil magnet force (the induction generated magnet is weak). 
So to find the force of the coil to work against the movement we can have a stronger coil magnet. 
I measured with an opto-coupler when the pendulum was at the lowest point. 
At that point the coil was switched off, to avoid the effect of the outgoing plate. At the highest point the coil was switch on again. So, only the effect of the ingoing plate was measured. 
The total time was measured when the pendulum came to a standstill. Also was measured the time when the coil was never on. The difference between the 2 times will give us our answers! 

Here are the results: 

test met de magneet en de spoel met ompoler in de N-Z stand (alle tijden in milliseconden) N-Z half aan & half N-Z off 
aan aan aan aan aan   uit uit uit uit uit  
332 333 319 318 317 323,8  317 316 317 316 328 318,8 
312 314 329 330 330 323  327 328 329 329 313 325,2 
325 325 314 313 314 318,2  314 313 313 313 321 314,8 
306 306 326 326 325 317,8  322 323 322 323 307 319,4 
312 314 307 304 306 308,6  306 305 308 304 310 306,6 
290 292 314 313 313 304,4  311 309 309 308 293 306 
272 277 294 290 289 284,4  293 289 293 292 279 289,2 
248 255 278 271 273 265  279 274 276 280 256 273 
246 247 257 243 243 247,2  255 244 254 251 248 250,4 
186 192 246 245 246 223  249 248 247 248 181 234,6 
244 245 194 182 180 209  184 175 178 177 251 193 
162 165 242 242 243 210,8  250 255 254 253 148 232 
243 244 164 158 157 193,2  151 146 147 147 295 177,2 
152 153 243 245 245 207,6  282 297 298 297 141 263 
246 247 150 147 147 187,4  141 142 140 140 334 179,4 
145 144 246 252 254 208,2  380 354 319 334 144 306,2 
258 258 144 140 142 188,4  142 142 144 143 161 146,4 
140 141 260 273 275 217,8  185 174 158 165 151 166,6 
274 273 139 140 140 193,2  148 150 151 150  149,75 
142 142 271 263 260 215,6        
255 255 144 146 147 189,4        
5235 5267 5449 5141 5146 5247,6  4836 4952 4757 4770 4461 4755,2 
    With EM& Mag      No EM & Mag 
– Hi&Low 5216,0       4787,7 

 
If the time of the pendulum is longer, then that means that there was less resistance. Or that there was a force helping the swing a bit. 
The measurement was done 5 times, 1 with the coil (EM) on (aan) and 1 with the coil (EM) off (uit). That sequence 5 times, then we got the average over those measurements.From the results, it is very clear that when the coil (EM) is on, there is a force helping it to swing longer than when the coil (EM) was off! (In line with my assumption that magnets attract metals plates, never repel!
This force must come from coil magnet in the ingoing faze, as it is the only change with no coil on! 
Another proof that the ingoing plate is not working against the movement of the plate, it is actually helping that movement. 
The movement of the plate is exactly as it would move (rotate) in a generator. 
So, I come to the exciting and disturbing conclusion that the coil can generate electricity without putting the required energy in!?