Working Magnetic Motor on you tube??

[RunningBare]

Perhaps mounting the stators to someting less rigid --

Time to loosen up? 

Cheers,

Yada ..
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I concur, alsetalokin had specified that his stator bearings were not rigid and that they rattled slightly, a couple of theories have been put forward such as the effect on angular momentum and the stator bearings binding at just the right moment on each cycle.

[MeggerMan]

Omni,
I have not ordered the 18mm HDPE sheet yet, got all the magnets, I have some important work to get out of the way before I can play.
I'm gradually building a shopping list of materials I need to complete this project and other peoples successes and failures are helping a little. Things are looking promising though with the news from Tubinator and the lego motor, although I not so convinced about the lego motor.
Regards
Rob

[Omnibus]

@MeggerMan,

The Lego motor is the really interesting one because it's a self-starter. The motor we're drying to replicate is based on the same idea as the Lego and other motors but seems simpler to get it to work (seems that fewer parameters are at play to adjust). As for @Turbinator, it's really interesting to see what he's observed but recall early on I also observed something similar (shorter than @Turbinator's several minutes but stators were not held by hand). @CLaNZeR also observed a similar effect and even showed evidence of it. Our goal, however, is to see sustained acceleration for longer periods and I've focused my attention on replicating the motor in the video exactly (the one I reported encouraging results with differs in that its rotor magnets are rectangular, for instance). Now, as I've said a number of times, aside from the exact mases of the rotor and stators (I think stator mass of 10g is achieved) I'd really like to see @alsetalokin show us the magnetic induction of the rotor as well as of the stators as a function of their angle of rotation. Thus, once we have adjusted the masses properly and the magnetic induction profiles the likelihood of success would increase, wouldn't it?

[Lakes]

Does anyone else think that the Lego motor video is being played backward?

[geodan]

Does anyone else think that the Lego motor video is being played backward?

yeah... now that you mention it... I think that it's saying "The Walrus is Al"