Working Magnetic Motor on you tube??

[MeggerMan]

Heads up!

Forum member over at Steorn called "rt", signs name as [root] claims to be Al's boss at work.
Last visit to forum 5 days ago, same time as Al last visit after being scared off by possible IP address collection script.
rt says that he thinks the claim is legit, and has no reason to suspect foul play - perhaps a good person to get in contact with to verify things a little further.

Of course it could be a lurker having a laugh, this is his post:

(In reply to RB asking who was Al's employer)

CommentAuthor rt Comment Time: Jan 20th 2008 
As his employer I can assure you this will not effect his position. This is not the USA.
He was granted permission to do some private research using our lab equipement.
I'm not aware of any abuse or fraud.

[Root]

Regards
Rob

[RunningBare]

(In reply to RB asking who was Al's employer)

CommentAuthor rt Comment Time: Jan 20th 2008 
As his employer I can assure you this will not effect his position. This is not the USA.
He was granted permission to do some private research using our lab equipement.
I'm not aware of any abuse or fraud.

[Root]

Regards
Rob

Just to make it clear, my question was both sardonic and rhetorical, in response to people coming up with all sorts of theories on who AL was and where he worked, I truly did not expect an answer, if rt is just a lurker then he proved my point that we cannot accurately know who anonymous posters are.

[Craigy]

Hi guys,

I believe a lot of the rotor wieght mystery has been sloved by Al now saying that the thickness of the rotor is 18mm and not the half inch he took it to be. An understandable mistake for someone used to working in imperial.

As for testing i don't think anything will be gained by visual observation. You might get lucky but the gods are against you. To that end i have finally connected up my dataq 4 channel datalogger to 2 hall sensors to read and record what is going on in the wind down tests. Will report if i see anything of note..

[JFK]

Hi guys,

I believe a lot of the rotor wieght mystery has been sloved by Al now saying that the thickness of the rotor is 18mm and not the half inch he took it to be. An understandable mistake for someone used to working in imperial.

As for testing i don't think anything will be gained by visual observation. You might get lucky but the gods are against you. To that end i have finally connected up my dataq 4 channel datalogger to 2 hall sensors to read and record what is going on in the wind down tests. Will report if i see anything of note..

That makes no sense... 19mm is almost 3/4 of an inch. < scratches head >

[vipond50]

@ All
I constructed a new rig to the config reflected to the video, meaning a dual bearing assembly mounted to the plexie base. The assembly is out an old Feed back sensor with #or better grad bearings. I machined down the bearing housing to reduce mass and volume. The shaft is Stainless Steel and a Neo has little to no attraction to it. The Rotor is UHMW because this is what I had on hand. It started out to be 1.0" in thickness X 5.75" in diameter Total mass was 383 grams with the magnets. The magnet slot radius is 2.51" to the point of the intersection of the adjoining slot. The center line length is 2.32" measuring of the center line of the Stainless Steel shaft.
This morning my Grade #5 Stator bearings arrive so i started doing more spin test.
The first thing i did to the rotor was to decrease the thickness from 1.0" down to 0.75" and did a spin test. The rig responded better, but still No joy. So I disassembled the rotor and started removing material from the underside. The first cut brought the mass down to 305 grams. Reassembled and did another spin test. This time the rig sounded different and kind of coggie, but still no joy.
I machined more off the underside and brought the mass down to 278.85 grams. Reassembled and did a few more spin test. This time the rig was alot more audible and the coggie action was alot more pronounced, but here again still No joy.
I ripped it apart again and this time machine more off the under side and brought the weight down to 252.0 grams with the Mags. I did more spin tests an the rig almost acted like it wanted to maintain rpm, but still No joy(Dam).
The underside of the rotor is taking the appearance of a flywheel, meaning the rim is still 0.75" in thickness for 0.75" in on the diameter. I also left a hub with the thickness of 1.0" X 0.75" in diameter, wanted to have the most shaft contact surface area to rotor I could.
My next step is to machine up three new single bearing stator adaptors and see how stable the new bearings are with more spin test. Currently I am running the dual bearing set as described in earlier post.
What I have observed by working this is, as the rotor gets lighter in mass the more cogger it is and the more it seem to want to run. I will put together some Pic's of this setup for your review if u would like to see what i have done.

Best Regards
Bill