Quote Originally Posted by mackrackit View Post
You need something magnetic between the copper on the rotor. Think of the rotor as a shorted transformer. The copper rings and bars are the short.
So, you're saying, if I were to lay the rotor out flat, it would go: copper wire (shorted to every other piece of copper wire), insulator, slab of something magnetic-able, insulator, another copper wire, etc.etc. I'll give that a shot...

Wiki should have said the idea is to induce a magnetic field, not current.
It did...but it said inducing a current is basically a side effect of the magnetic field. Same thing but different...

Having the electro/mechanical part of the rotor on a twist does help starting as the magnetic parts will cross phase ( in two fields at the same time ) . Over lapping the stator coils will also make a difference but what you have should move. (spin start? maybe) The bare metal in the stator coils should be facing the rotor, like you had in the first place.
Overlap - I've tried a few different angles so far, even angling the stators the opposite way to the rotor angles...
Spin start - no joy...
Bare metal - that's what I thought...and I've put it back that way.

I just wanna see this thing spin so I can giggle like a little 12 year old...