On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 9:18:50 PM UTC-4, mike wrote:
> I'd worry a lot about that.
> Transients from turning the electromagnet on and off can create voltage
> in nearby conductors. Sensitive inputs might not like that. Hall Effect
> sensors might not like magnetism either.
Good to raise the question - which deserves an answer that addresses it directly.
Magnetic fields are largely dissipated when bridged. Which is why horseshoe magnets, as one obvious example are bridged when shipped. A bar between N & S., that is. DO try this at home. Take the typical cartoon-type horseshoe magnet and iron filings (in a bag for the purposes of neatness). With the bar and without the bar.
When a magnetic parts-picker is holding its part, it is bridged. The electromotive coil is sitting between the two poles which are gapped at the proper size to pick up the part in question. The part-in-place dissipates extraneous fields, is demagnetized by the shifting field applied to it, and when the system shuts off (dropping the part) also absorbs and dissipates the transient - which ain't much nohow, anyway.
Thank goodness for high-school science. We learned things as they apply to real life every single day. And a lot of cool stuff, too. Such as making gunpowder (elementary), gun cotton (nitrocellulose, not so easy) and much more. The teacher ran the course parallel to our history courses with a little bit of physics thrown in. So, we made "Egyptian Ice" in hot weather, a Rhodesian hoist, Prince Rupert's drops, Archimedes' screw (as well as displacement and specific gravity experiments, split rocks without tools, and much much more.
Teaching that kind of science is probably a lost art - who would let little Jilly or Johnny around glacial sulphuric acid, much less the 'fixins' for gunpowder these days?
But I can tell you exactly how a Lift Pump works, how it is different from a Force Pump, and its lifting limits. And we learned about the differences between the Atkinson cycle and the Otto cycle in 1967.
As well as the ten (10) reindeer... How you can tell an American anywhere under any conditions... much longer, but related stories. The former is disclosable to the general public, the latter not - for obvious reasons.