Thin Magnetic Ramp experiment

[Floor]

@MSCoffman

I've thought about useing a teeter totter ramp,
but the rest of what you are describing is unclear to me.
Could you do a sketch?
                         
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                    floor

[shylo]

I'm not sure about the teeter-totter, A gradual curve maybe? Better to invert it.
I got a second track built today, but I had to change things, It now raises 3in. over a length of 18in.
The ring magnet is 3in. dia., 1" 1/8 thickness. It runs on a steel track, 1"1/4 wide  ~26 awg.
The hard part was getting it to release at the end of the run.
I want to drop it out at the end of its' run, go down a ramp, past a bunch of generating coils,then return to the start, where at the start it gets drawn back in.
artv

[truesearch]

@shylo:


Can you post a photo of your setup? I'd appreciate SEEING how you have it configured.


Thanks in advance and the best of luck to you in your efforts!


truesearch

[mscoffman]

Floor and others,

Picture a teeter-totter ramp where the ball moves to the far end. A teeter-totter has a balance point axle. Correct?
The flywheel would be attached to ramp at the axle point. When the runner unbalances the ramp it has to supply
the energy to get the flywheel to rotate which takes a little time, then the ramp will overshoot a little as the
runner is dislodged at the over end of it's rotation. A fixed spear pokes up through a hole in the ramp and forces
the runner to move along.

I think smot is hard partially because in the usual runner the movement's forward inertia is hard coupled to the
runners rotational momentum. I think the key will be to have a "automatic transmission" that will allow those two RPMxTorque
to be decoupled from one another even though the energies will be equal.

Getting the runner away from the mass of magnets as rapidly as possible is necessary to keep "control" of the runner.

Excellent work to user "shylo" and friends for getting the smot run/rise ratio that high.

[Low-Q]

Magnetic ramps does not work as a selfsustaining machine, and never will.
There is a very simple reason for this:
1. Permanent magnets cannot deliver energy
2. Gravity cannot deliver energy


Both fields are constant, and only if one of them or both are alternating (Delivering energy) you can make this ramp work as you want.


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