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Eddy current drive

Hmm. I really can't see that that will work but then I've never tried it. As far as I can see if you get any motive power at all it would have an extremely soft speed / torque characteristic which translates to poor speed stability. I think the lesson to be learnt from the Garrard experience is that motor decoupling is a furphy foisted on us by the proponents of belt drive.

I have built several magnetically coupled drives and they are harder to get right than they look. If you like I can run one of my NdFeB magnet drives on the Garrard platter to see if there's any drive.

Non est ars quae ad effectum casu venit - Seneca.
"That which achieves its effect by chance is not art"

Mark Kelly


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