Effect of number of permanent magnetic poles on 3D printed coreless generator rotor

Abstract

3D-printed coreless generator using rotors with 4 poles permanent magnet and 8 poles permanent magnet as source of external magnetic field has been presented for energy harvesting applications. The prototype of proposed coreless generator is built using 3D-printer with Black Polylactic Acid (PLA) as a filament for stator housing, rotor and other parts. The major parts of the proposed coreless generator are the stator, which has four coils of winding copper wire and two rotors with four permanent magnet and eight permanent magnets which are arranging N and S magnet poles alternately. The prototype permanent magnet generator is tested with rotational speed and load condition. The experimental results have been shown that the coreless generator can generate It was found that 3D-printed coreless generator can generate electric energy up to 10300 mW for rotor with eight permanent magnets and 9000 mW for rotor with four permanent magnet at 5000 rpm, respectively.