magnetic drive gears

[Draco Rylos]

I've tinkered a little bit with gimp a little bit back when i had my computer running Linux. what is the URL to download it? I'll try it to see if it will help me draw them more difficult drawings any better

[joe dirt]

 

[Low-Q]

i finaly got around to the drawing it is a simple 1 but it is a start on my thoughts about the gears hear is the pic

These gears was quite different than I thought. So you're using several magnets which is sync'ed and attracting each other. These type of drive gear will have a sticky spot at each magnet. These sticky spots will make the gear going not so smooth, and probably be worse than regular drive gears as each sticky spot prevent the gear to rotate. However the attraction right before the magnets are at the closest might be enough counter force to make the gears rotate quite frictionless, but again you have an attraction where the magnets are leaving each other - probably the conclution is a gear that will stop due to sticky spots...

My idea which is using a constant repelling system might go smoother, less complex, and probably without sticky spots. I haven't tried, so I really don't know what is best.

Br.

Vidar

[innovation_station]

i was thinking of using the magnets to repel not to attract each other


but there so many ways to do this it is still much in thought


is

[HopeForHumanity]

I don't know very much in this stuff, but how much less force would it take to spin the gears if you had an imaginary set of forces, than it would with the same forces but excluding magnetism?