Electronic Levitron...How the heck does this thing work?

[Pirate88179]

I pm'd Lidmotor on Youtube to see if I could get him interested in the research going on over here.  He was aware of TK's circuits and even replicated one of them already.  I just wish I knew more and could actually help to move this forward.  I will be experimenting soon for better or for worse.

I look forward to see where this topic goes from here.

Bill

[TinselKoala]

@AC: Ok, I see it now! You have to carefully balance the distance so that the attraction on the left is a little stronger than the attraction on the right, otherwise it will snap over and stick on the RH side, right? An additional pin would be a good safety feature but it would normally only be very lightly loaded, less so than on the left side pin. I think.

Maybe this is something new. It definitely doesn't fit in the usual Mendocino Motor levitation system, and I've not seen it before, for sure.  It's too bad you've disclosed it here otherwise it might actually be patentable. I can see it could be very useful in many applications.
The ring magnets I have on hand for the Steorn rep are radially polarized, I only have one big ring magnet that is polled axially, so I can't play around with your system... yet. Maybe I can get hold of some proper ring magnets later on.

Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me. I can be just as dense as the next fellow but I do try to work things out, and if you keep at it I usually will finally get the point.

[TinselKoala]

I pm'd Lidmotor on Youtube to see if I could get him interested in the research going on over here.  He was aware of TK's circuits and even replicated one of them already.  I just wish I knew more and could actually help to move this forward.  I will be experimenting soon for better or for worse.

I look forward to see where this topic goes from here.

Bill

Lidmotor is way in advance of us poor tinkerers over here, he is the King of pulse motors. I envy his fine designs and his excellent results. He would just be bored stiff, in between bouts of hysterical laughter, looking in here.

[allcanadian]

@TK

@AC: Ok, I see it now! You have to carefully balance the distance so that the
attraction on the left is a little stronger than the attraction on the right,
otherwise it will snap over and stick on the RH side, right? An additional pin
would be a good safety feature but it would normally only be very lightly
loaded, less so than on the left side pin. I think.

Now you have it, if you look at the picture you will see I have two sets of vertical boards. The inside one's are for safety and to keep the shaft from slamming to the right or left while the outside boards hold the outer magnet sets. To be honest I was very surprised how small the force was to hold the shaft in place and the end cap to hold the bearing can be adjusted so the force is down to grams.

Maybe this is something new. It definitely doesn't fit in the usual Mendocino
Motor levitation system, and I've not seen it before, for sure.  It's too bad
you've disclosed it here otherwise it might actually be patentable. I can see it
could be very useful in many applications.
The ring magnets I have on hand
for the Steorn rep are radially polarized, I only have one big ring magnet that
is polled axially, so I can't play around with your system... yet. Maybe I can
get hold of some proper ring magnets later on.

I'm really not interested in patents and believe a technology not used is a useless technology so it makes sense to me that I should give it away rather than have it sit around collecting dust... if you only knew what I had under my bench collecting dust, lol.
AC

[Dave45]

if you only knew what I had under my bench collecting dust, lol.

We'r listening, it does feel good to give thats a human condition that enhances the soul.
Thank You for the magnetic bearing.