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original board on OSHPark. Most of the board was unused space, so I fired up KiCAD
and reworked it into a much more price-effective board to run on OSHPark:
https://www.oshpark.com/shared_projects/7TnLB2hD.
While I was reworking it, I decided to go all through-hole on the parts to make it
quicker to solder together. Plus, I have more through-hole parts on-hand than
surface mount anyway.
It's designed to fit in the original Anti-Gravitator base, but only occupies part
of the space and only needs two mounting holes/screws to attach.
All of the KiCAD design files are in the posted zip-file and since it's already
posted on OSHPark, you can order it with a few clicks.
Update (13-Jan-2017): I've removed the "Work in Progress" tag, as I've gotten my
boards in and have assembled one and it works perfectly! No issues with the board
at all, and it fits perfectly in the base.
The only issue I had during assembly was that I got the polarity of the coil
backwards initially. There's a 50/50 chance you'll get it right, which means it's a
99% chance I'll get it wrong (Murphy's Law). If you are setting it up for the first
time and you find that as you adjust it, it doesn't seem to be doing anything, and
there's a single point in the adjustment band where it wants to slightly repel the
magnet instead of attract it, you most likely need to switch the wires to the coil
and reverse its polarity. When you have the polarity correct, you'll feel the
magnet start to vibrate in your hands as you hold it in place and adjust the
potentiometer and get near the "resonance point". If you don't feel it vibrate
anywhere within the adjustment range of the potentiometer, you most likely need to
switch the leads to the coil.
For the coil, I used 30ga magnet wire and wound enough to fill the spool (I didn't
measure the length, but I've included a picture of my wound coil). When complete,
it measured 50.8-ohms.
The power adapter I used was a Cabletron Systems 120VAC 60Hz 19W Power Adapter off
Amazon, since it was only $5(USD). Though rated at 15VDC at 900mA, it actually
measured between 19-20VDC when not under load (I didn't bother measuring it with a
load). I just cut the connector off and soldered the leads to the board. On the one
I received, the lead with the stripe was the positive lead, but be sure to check
yours with a volt meter before attaching the leads to the board, since reversing
the power supply polarity could damage it.