Rotor Animations

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These animations show how the rotor bolts disassemble before rotating and passing through the deflection magnets. The gray represents transformer laminations, which will actually be quite thin with just enough insulation between them to electrically isolate the laminations and allow field penetration.

The six longitudinal gaps will be just wide enough to admit a stationary winding, plus some enough tolerance to keep the winding from touching the hypervelocity rotor. The only way this will work is if the windings dip inwards briefly before and after sled passage, are maintained exactly in the center (somehow) by eddy currents, and of course the 14 km/s rotor moves in a very high vacuum.

This does not show the longitudinal copper windings and optical SCRs wrapped around the poles, which pin the magnetic excitation field in the rotor, and subsequently provide motor thrust for the passage through the motor windings

A magnetic field is synchronously imprinted on the rotor; the "slip" will be small, and the risetime of the field will be around 200 microseconds.