{"id":142,"date":"2018-12-20T16:52:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/?p=142"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:55:13","slug":"end-of-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/2018\/12\/20\/end-of-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"End of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 4 of my PhD students that completed in 2018, I\u00a0managed to get (rid of) 2 of them at the same ceremony. Congratulations Mehmet and Liam!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-143\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Picture1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Picture1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Picture1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Picture1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Picture1.jpg 1441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over this last year I have had more linear machines tested than at any point in my career&#8230;but always as a passive generator. For the first time we managed to get one of these machines hooked up to a bespoke voltage source inverter to act as a controlled actuator. Watch this space next year for exciting results.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-144\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/rig-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/rig-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/rig-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/rig-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/rig.jpg 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are continuing or work with Protean on electric vehicle traction motors, with\u00a0Iago delivering his annual address to his industrial supporters. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-146\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Iago-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Iago-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Iago-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Iago-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/Iago.jpg 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are at the exciting planning stage for our next round of motor builds. As always, I thinks its pretty useful to mock up assemblies for those hard-to-imagine machines. Here is a potential assembly plan for Halbach arrays<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/iago-tool-300x231.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/iago-tool-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/files\/2018\/12\/iago-tool.png 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the 4 of my PhD students that completed in 2018, I\u00a0managed to get (rid of) 2 of them at the same ceremony. Congratulations Mehmet and Liam! Over this last year I have had more linear machines tested than at any point in my career&#8230;but always as a passive generator. For the first time we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/2018\/12\/20\/end-of-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nickbaker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}