Thane Heins Perepiteia.

[JustMe]

It appears that the Perepiteia Motor is nothing more than a hysteresis brake.  Placing the steel rods (wound by coils) near the spinning magnets induces alternating magnetic flux within the rods, the resulting magnetic hysteresis causes drag on the rotating disk, and heat losses within the steel rods.  Shorting out the coils effectively shields the steel rods from the disk's magnetic field, eliminating the hysteresis drag.  This causes the motor to speed up - but not as much as it would if the steel rods were removed completely.

This was posted nearly 3 months ago and seems to be a very plausible explanation. Have any of the experiments since then produced results inconsistent with that theory?

@All

Did anybody ever come to a sound conclusion as to why Vince got acceleration by holding up just the steel and laminates to the spinning magnets? Is this not the exact scenario as described above that should have produced drag/deceleration?

[RCH]

JM,

Yes ....         

So if THAT'S not the (demonstrable) "explanation" ... what IS?

"Inquiring minds" OU ....


RCH

Hint: Go back and Study Depalma ... who, incidentally, went to NZ and worked with Adams ... until his untimely death in 1997. 

DePalma is the KEY .... 

[OilBarren]

@All
Did anybody ever come to a sound conclusion as to why Vince got acceleration by holding up just the steel and laminates to the spinning magnets? Is this not the exact scenario as described above that should have produced drag/deceleration?

I DO ... VINCE WAS ON CRACK THAT DAY. 

ACTUALLY I WOULD SUGGEST THAT HE MAY HAVE BEEN OPERATING HIS MOTOR AT SLIGHTLY BELOW RATED SPEED? - PLACING THE STEEL NEAR THE ROTOR CAUSED SLIGHT DECELERATION - INCREASING SLIP ANGLE - INCREASING STATOR CURRENT AND CAUSING THE OBSERVED ACCELERATION.

Thane

[OilBarren]

I was thinking about Aether22 when I was reading that article too.   I did hear from him about a week ago via e-mail - he said he has been busy generally, and was still stuck gathering materials for his replication attempt. So I think all is well, and hopefully he's still reading here and will pop in soon.

HE WILL POP UP ALRIGHT - WHEN WE HEAR ABOUT SOME GUY'S HOUSE IN NZ LEVITATING AND A BLACK HOLE FORMING ABOVE IT.

Thane

[JustMe]

Today's data...

DEAR ALL,

I RE-DID THE TEST PERFORMED YESTERDAY SO THAT I COULD ENSURE THE POWER FACTOR ON THE OSCILLOSCOPE WAS INDEED 0.00 - OR CURRENT LAGGING THE VOLTAGE BY 90 DEGREES - WHICH MEANS VIRTUALLY ONLY REACTIVE CURRENT IN THE PRIMARY AND NO REAL POWER BEING DISSIPATED IN THE PRIMARY.

THEN I PLACED 100, 22 & 10 ohm LOADS ON BOTH SECONDARIES AND GOT EFFICIENCY NUMBERS WHICH SUGGEST OVER UNITY BECAUSE THE OSCILLOSCOPE POWER FACTOR AGREES WITH THE POWER ANYLIZER.

I WILL BE WINDING A NEW PRIMARY ON MONDAY TO SEE IF I CAN GET THE PRIMARY CURRENT EVEN LOWER.

CHEERS
Thane