new magnet ball in a tube motor ?

[powercat]

Wilby
Thanks but  its not in a continuous circle.

I keep finding lots of videos where people spin the magnet ball in one place,
rather than the ball spinning round and round in a circle tube,

Rather like a gun barrel that is looped and the ball magnet is the bullet,
If that helps anyone.

[powercat]

Sorry for the poor sketch but I hope it helps understand the idea
The black is the tube.
The green is the toroid coils
The red is the magnet ball

I have never seen a motor/generator like this ever before.

[twinbeard]

Thats like an EPG with a magnet inside instead of ionized plasma.

[gyulasun]

Sorry for the poor sketch but I hope it helps understand the idea
The black is the tube.
The green is the toroid coils
The red is the magnet ball

I have never seen a motor/generator like this ever before.

Hi powercat,

I think your setup is a good idea, worth building a testbed for it.  If you do not mind I would suggest an addition which may help the moving ball accelerating, besides the coils.
You surely heard of the magnetic trigate setup from Graham, see a video collection on it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=pnMSSz7W8YU 

See this test here why I think your setup could benefit from the trigate magnets addition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCW6T7oKq2c

If there is any small sticky point at the entrance or near to the entrance of a trigate setup in itself (though I have not noticed such in the videos) then it would surely be defeated by the momentum of the moving ball and I guess any DRAG by the induction of the moving ball in the generator coils around the tube to generate output should be much higher than the trigate any sticky spot.

Hopefully you can build this, looks promising!

rgds, Gyula

PS  EDIT  I am not sure if the trigate setups placed around your tube would be able to accelerate the ball without the electromagnet coils...  because bending the trigate may distort the fields in an unfavorable direction,  so just use one or two trigates first for a bigger diameter tube like at least with 40-50 centimeter.

[DreamThinkBuild]

Hi Powercat,

There are two patent applications by the same inventor based somewhat on the idea. He is using rounded cylinders though.

Application number: 12/778,500 CIRCULAR SELF-POWERED MAGNETIC GENERATOR
http://www.google.com/patents/US20100219709

Application number: 12/910,912 GRAVITY-ASSISTED GEOMAGNETIC GENERATOR
http://www.google.com/patents/US20120098272

The cone shaped coil construction is pretty interesting. I haven't seen a generator use that coil geometry before.