About the Torbay concept (and I do mean concept)

[lwh]

Last one.  Too many complications arising with this close an arrangement of the stators.  I had to try it though.   

[hartiberlin]

Hi LWH,
nice pics and good craftmanship !
What do you think is the problem, that it does not work ?

Just the right magnets ?
Maybe if you can loan again a camera,
that also has a movie mode, maybe you can also
shoot a short video, showing, how the magnets
react against each other and telling in the video
when you speak, where the problems are stil
are located at.
Many thanks for this hard work.

Regards, Stefan.

[shipto]

Mulling this over I think we are going about it wrong. we seem to be stuck in this rut of having the rotor located on the inner circle and the stators on the outer circle.
think of a pivot and fulcrum you wouldn't try to raise the weight on the long side you would raise it on the short side but thats exactly what we all seem to be trying to do (me included). I think flipping this concept about would work easier.

[CLaNZeR]

Excellent work LWH

Are you using a milling machine/router to cut your parts?

Well done and keep going, I know how much time and effort it takes to experiment like this.

Where did you get those square magnets from?

Regards

Sean.

[lwh]

Are you using a milling machine/router to cut your parts?

Well done and keep going, I know how much time and effort it takes to experiment like this.

Where did you get those square magnets from?

I used a loose hacksaw blade with a tea-towel wrapped around one end for a handle to cut the steel and aluminium parts, and a hand-held electric jigsaw to cut the round bit of wood.

I bought the magnets from a place here in Australia, I'll look up more precise details if you want.

I don't intend to continue with the Torbay type arrangement.

Mulling this over I think we are going about it wrong. we seem to be stuck in this rut of having the rotor located on the inner circle and the stators on the outer circle.
think of a pivot and fulcrum you wouldn't try to raise the weight on the long side you would raise it on the short side but thats exactly what we all seem to be trying to do (me included). I think flipping this concept about would work easier.

I've heard similar things mentioned before, and it's also crossed my own mind.  If I were to continue with this I'd probably head off in that dierction myself.  However, in my opinion, it still wouldn't work, and would just lead to a more efficient way of revealing the fundamental flaw in the Torbay concept (which I tried to describe in my original post).

Les.