Honey Creek Design's magnet motor theory

[Tom Anderson]

I have been working on this design and would like to some input. I have never seen anything like it so I feel it is a new idea. I do provide a detail discription at my website www.honeycreekdesign.com

I have never built a prototype but plan to.

I am open to any ideas and help.

Thank you for your time.

Tom

[acp]

Ever tried to lift yourself up? It's simple, reach down, grab your ankles with your hands and lift.

[Gregory]

Good idea! But has a problem:

Just before, or at the position where the reciprocating magnet aligns with the wheel an amount of back torque appears, first in the form of blocking/braking attraction and after suddenly in a form of a greater amount of repulsion. (the sticky point)
So, at that position the reciprocating magnet does not want to move closer to the wheel at all, and the wheel does not want to rotate any further. I guess it will stop there, but you can test it for yourself to be sure what happens, and to see how it works exactly.

Anyway, a good idea to build and experiment with it!

[CLaNZeR]

Nice one Tom

But rather than asking people for $20.00 membership so you can save and build it yourself, why not just release the drawings to size in say DXF format and I am sure a few people will make it, to prove the concept.

Half the work for the 100's of designs floating around is the lack of size and measurements in detailed plans.
If you released good DXF's public that were easy enough to convert to Gcode, I would mill one out one weekend just for the hell of it!!!

Regards

Sean.

[gyulasun]

I have been working on this design and would like to some input. I have never seen anything like it so I feel it is a new idea. I do provide a detail discription at my website www.honeycreekdesign.com

I have never built a prototype but plan to.

I am open to any ideas and help.

Thank you for your time.

Tom

Hi Tom,

Thanks for sharing your interesting idea. Let me tell my problem with it as I can see. Let's look at your Figure-4b. The approaching magnet of the wheel and the shuttle magnet are neccessarily of like poles so this is against rotation. Another breaking effect comes from the cam follower's friction on the surface, though it could be minimised by using ball bearing. So I am afraid of the wheel coming to a stop finally.  
Perhaps using several shuttles around the wheel the repel torque gained would serve for a continuous rotation, only the building of your setup could tell it.

rgds
Gyula

PS In the meantime I noticed Gregory's more or less similar opinion on your setup...  Well one more thing to prototype it!