Video of Original Walter Torbay Magnet Motor!

[gn0stik]

Wow, I've followed the torbay threads since the beginning, and read his entire site with the help of babelfish, and I never read any of that info about low rpm and high torque.

Regardless of the torque (it would have to be massive), to compensate for such low rpms, that thing turns at around 50-60 rpms. Also all of the concept tests I've seen have had almost NO torque, or very low torque. Some can't even lift the lifters. I've been a stickler about specs, as you can see by the 3d model I made for it. Nobody has yet built one to torbay's specs, and hence cannot make any positive or negative claims. However the concept tests have been dissapointing.

This combined with the reports by the university in NY, that they were very disappointed in the non-working model he showed them, (which could have been fixed on site fairly easily), and his complete lack of communication on follow up calls leads me to believe he's got nothing that can produce any real power here. If your lucky this thing could produce enough power to light an LED bank, or perhaps a flourescent bulb, but I doubt it could even power an incandescent bulb.

Don't get me wrong, the plain fact that he's produced a self-runner is amazing, but it's not enough. A self-runner, in and of itself, will make nothing more than an executive desk toy.

Regards,
Gn0stik.

[hartiberlin]

Here is now the 11.5 MByte AVI movie of the google video
for you all to download, thanks to Jason, who emailed it to me.
But as I have stated already in the other thread, I guess this
one is a fake and is powered by a hidden motor, as the
starting and stopping is just too fast and with no inertia and
the stators seem to go up and down not from their own
power but from external rotation.
Also the stator rollers at the top of the stators seem to have no
function as they are not touching the top lidcap and
also the lidcap seems to be mounted the wrong way,
as it is turned around fixed by 180 degrees !

Okay, have yourself a better view over here:
http://www.overunity.com/torbay

[tbird]

hi stephan,

i think you may be wrong about the stator movement.  the rollers are well inside (blind spot or dark area for me) and i think it would be difficult to tell (for sure) from this video if they are touching or not.  remember there is a ramp raising from the bottom too.  without knowing it was there, you would never guess it from the video.  looking at how he built the top (wooden part) of the rotor, you can see, if you look close, it was 2 halves joined together (doubt if he cut the disk this way) with an offset.  then a piece of flat stock (wood, metal, ), maybe 3-4 inches long (from one half to the other), connected them together to serve as the ramp.  watching it work, it looks like something a kid would make for his first ever project, but it is really very clever.  you can build this without the benefit of a machine shop.

also, if he has run wires from the motor to the base in a fashion so that we can not see them, he really is good!!  like i inferred before, i doubt he had access to a machine shop.

now having said all that, the big base does concern me.  can't imagine why he needed such a thick unit.  maybe to hide ALL the stuff you talked about before.

i don't think this is the machine he claims gives the big out put.  the picture of the all metal looking one was probably made in a machine shop and with well balanced parts and close fits, who knows?

[TheOne]

hum i was looking the video and i dont beleive this device work

when he remove the magnet the rotor stop instantatly but the problem is he remove it in the middle of nowehre, they should continue until the rotor magnet get on the missing one

and the bottom is really tick, sound like more an hided motor or something in it in my opinion

[Liberty]

Isn't there a motor/generator mounted on the plexiglass top and meshed with the gear that is part of the rotor?  Why doesn't it light a light or something?