Finsrud's Perpetuum Mobile

[hartiberlin]

"the machine will not run more than 14 days, and right now without tuning it will not run more than 2 days.  The machine is not made for perpetual motion, but is simple an experiment in Physics."

To me he did not say this, when I was there...

I am not sure why people are twisting the facts and making this into a perpetual motion, or over-unity machine - when the inventor himself says it is not. 

I think you are twisting the facts here...

I saw the machine running with my own eyes, and the speed of the ball slows down - just as Mr. Finsrud pointed out, while I was there.

If it runs more than 1 minute it clearly overcomes the friction forces and
generates energy on its own to overcome the friction on the rail.

Also it did not slow down, otherwise after a few  minutes it would have come to a stop.

When we left after at least about an hour or more  it was still running at the same speed.

If it would not run at the same speed it would get out of sync and would slow down
very rapidly.

It probably converts the magnetic energy via a heat cycle process into mechanical energy,
because without the magnets it would not work.

So the macroscopic movements of the magnet atom spins are tapped and converted into real world
mechanical movement of the iron ball.

[Shanti]

I just recently read in the NET-Journal an older article, where Albert Hauser interviewed Mr Finsrud.
It is a very open interview, where Finsrud explains how the machine does work, also with a labeled drawing of the mechanics. Also there he indicated that the machine will run for about 14 days, at most 3 weeks.
He also states, why he did this machine, and why he called it "Perpetuum Mobile". He did this, to get some free public media attention for one of his exhibitions. Just to amaze people, e.g. like illusionists do. You also know, that e.g. an illusionist like Copperfield cannot really fly, even if he says so on stage...
The energy for the machines is stored magnetically!
See it like that: In a normal clock you also pull a spring to store energy which then gets released over a longer time to drive the clock. On bigger clocks this lasts for weeks, until you have to again wind up the clock.
Here it's basically the same, just instead of a spring you take a magnet.
See the principle like that: Take one magnet and something magnetic, or two magnets. When they touch each other, the "spring" is unloaded. Now if you take the magnets apart from each other, you store the energy needed for that as potential magnetic energy (just like in a spring it's stored mechanically). The magnets will now attract each other and want to get closer to each other, just like  a loaded spring. So you can take out this energy slowly over days until the magnets again touch each other and the machine stops.


Nothing fancy...

[AnandAadhar]

Okay I've got a magnetic rotor running on a composite pendulum setup. Now I have to make the 'vibrational feedback unit' as Finsrud calls it. Would that be a kind of test of Finsrud's principles?


see

http://www.overunity.com/4449/ipmm-man-device-for-the-proof-of-magnetic-overunity/60/#.UKtd5Y6NvIc

[ace569er]

Here are some drawings I made. I need more pics to finish/correct.

The last drawing is just because the replica I saw of it was a joke. The angles while not right, yet alone aligned. Was not to scale on any level. It was like watching someone put an engine together wrong and then wonder why is does not work. When then pistons are miss aligned or the timing is off. Please do it right or not at all. Because it is only a hindrance! I'm not trying to sound mean, just making an important point.

[AnandAadhar]

Here are some drawings I made. I need more pics to finish/correct.

The last drawing is just because the replica I saw of it was a joke. The angles while not right, yet alone aligned. Was not to scale on any level. It was like watching someone put an engine together wrong and then wonder why is does not work. When then pistons are miss aligned or the timing is off. Please do it right or not at all. Because it is only a hindrance! I'm not trying to sound mean, just making an important point.

Nice work, very helpful. But where did you see any replica of Finsrud?
Are you referring to any of my descriptions?
I never pretended to replicate anything of Finsrud, nor have I heard of anyone trying to replicate his setup.
I guess you are the first who cincerely tries to offer a proper model here.
So far I just tried to figure out if there is any lawfulness in the principles of operation he seems to base himself upon.
I Couldn't find any confirmation by the way,  of what I thought that would be as yet.