Working Magnetic Motor on you tube??

[TheOne]

Nice job Sean!

I really think this motor will work with the proper magnet due to what i see from your video!

[Freezer]

And yep it does sound to initially speed up when it latches as you can hear.

Looks like the stator has a little play in it, and could be giving it a little extra energy at the right time.

[geodan]

SWEET!!!  the only thing I'd say is that you might be working against the rotation of the rotor by squirting air in from that angle, perhaps from another direction it might be more productive?

[blue_energy]

Hello all.  First post.  I have been lurking here for the past 3 days until I had read through all of the posts.  Pretty exciting stuff!  I've also read most of the Steorn Whipmag posts - as I have been keeping track of that forum throughout the various rises and falls of adrenaline for quite awhile. 

One thing bothers me - and maybe I'm being naive.  There seems to be one measurement missing from the Al Whipmag specification: the strength of each of the magnets used.  Wouldn't that play a major part in determining the speed at which the rotor would need to be rotating in order to get the effect?  In Al's description he talks about the distance maintained between the rotor magnets and the stators.  That would seem to be half of what is needed to determine the 'gear' stability between them - the other half would be the combined attraction/repulsion of the magnets involved at that distance.  It would seem that stronger magnets might require more distance to achieve the same effect - and weaker magnets would require less.

Am I missing something?  Do all magnets of a given composition and shape have the same magnetic characteristics?  Aren't magnets sold by their degree of magnetization in addition to their size? 

Sorry in advance for my naivete if it turns out that there is a key piece of knowledge that I am lacking.

Also, although it is premature for the moment, I would like to offer the potential of my (free) services as a database programmer once digitally collected data begins to become available.  I can write software to parse and perform some digital signal processing on data that is collected and output graphs or whatever.  I did this for drmike on the Steorn forum for his magnetic viscosity experiment and it was fun and satisfying.

[Grimer]

Well spinning the Stator magnet using Air certainly will stop me taking skin off my fingers!!!

Here's some latching with 1 Stator Fixed again, 1 Stator loose and of course the latcher!.
Also in the same video latching with just 1 Stator, again using the airline.

And yep it does sound to initially speed up when it latches as you can hear.
I will get the Tacho connected back up and see if we can catch it.

Got to go try eat this end, as had nothing all day LOL 

http://www.overunity.org.uk/ocpm/tests/CLaNZeRSlatch4.wmv

P.S Sorry the videos are so big but I want to try and keep them at least 640 * 480 resolution, so you can see what is actually happening.

That's amazing. I thought I could hear the acceleration in the first case and in the second it sounded just like an engine trying to pick up.

I've got Broadband (Zen Lite -Maximum download speed (Mbps)  8.0) and the video downloaded quite quickly for me.