The Steorn Permanent Magnet Motor Replication Project: It's FLUX time.

[thevorlon]

Sean McCarthy of Steorn has posted several comments about the LEMA on the Fizzx Steorn Replication Forums at the following address...

http://fizzx.com/viewtopic.php?t=34

I feel very torn here. In one sense he is saying that the LEMA provides almost free magnetic switching, but then he doubts it could be used in a PMM due to the balance of the LEMA's magnetic fields being changed by the rotor magnet.

However, then he mentions that the LEMA might be used to (possibly) to induce a current in a wire.

He explains his statements much better than I am, so please check out.

http://fizzx.com/viewtopic.php?t=34

[allcanadian]

Hello again excellent links!
Did you read the part about energy balance? that is the big hurdle I think, Have you heard of the wesley Gary magnetic motor and generator, it is near the same thing. I built all of wesley gary's machines and they show big potential but it is always the same thing, the balancing of magnetic fields(magnetic strength vs distance vs magnetic shield size/thinkness.....)there is nothing simple about these simple machines.
When steorn mentioned that the shield would interact with any magnet on a rotor he was right, it's pretty much a given. But as I mentioned in an earlier post if the rotor had iron cores on it, it would then interact with the actuator magnets but be partialy neutral as far as influencing the shield. In fact im not sure that flat iron pieces on the rotor would have any influence on the shield.That's the direction Im going- 1 three magnet actuator (LEMA) I know works, two rotors with 1" square metal pieces around each rotor the spacing equal to the length of the actuator plus 1", and a cam setup to move the actuator, that was a sweet cam setup posted by the way.

[JackFrost]

@allcanadian,

You might take a look at the work of Alan Francoeur (aka Al Francoeur).  Last I heard he had recreated Wesley Grey's motor, invented an "interference disk generator", invented a fuel vaporizer, and finally invented a self-running motor.  He made a goodbye post and then "poof"...

[allcanadian]

I had looked at everything Alan Francoeur had on the net and liked his designs very much, I think his interference generator was "off" though, his shield elements were thin and the flux went through them instead of being redirected. As well his design still did not allow for backdrag- or magnetism induced in his coils pulling back on his shield elements. I was sure he would be one of the persons to nail a concrete design and put it on the net,I wonder what happened? maybe he took a lump sum settlement and left us out here in the cold, and it is cold here!
Anyways hopefully I can get some time to do more actual experiments and post them here. As I said I think iron cores on rotors with the LEMA might fly,that is my next step and really the only thing that will not create backdrag between the shield and rotor.If that does not fly my next guess is magnets on the rotor in repulsion. Im doing alot of guessing as usual, maybe I'll get lucky?

[Craigy]

Hi all,

I have been playing with the Torbay, with limited success, but i am thinking of adding shields to it after reading all about the steorn stuff. I have a couple of linear bearings on order to try and copy the patent.,

i'm gonna make the bloody thing work if it kills me..LOL

Craig