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An original
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A magnetic suspension of the rotor was added in 1994 by eccentric inventor Larry Spring to create "Larry Spring's
Magnetic Levitation Mendocino Brushless Solar Motor" - more commonly called "Mendocino Motor" with a horizontal rotor. The name comes from the location of his workshop on the
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In a modification, new constructors used one coil each supported by one opposite solar panel. It's easier to produce but this design isn't as favorable as the light commutated version. Many of these motors need an initial impulse to move.
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Mendocino motors, showing their rotors magnetically levitated over their bases. The most effective creating of
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on the base plate of the motor. The final 6th degree of freedom, the axial or thrust direction, is not levitated, but rather supported by a steel ball point of contact (low friction).
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had invented the modern solar cell eight years earlier, in 1954. Chapin's version of the motor uses a vertical glass cylinder on a needle point as a low-friction bearing.
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