Tri-Force Magnets - Finally shown to be OU?

[Lakes]

@AquariuZ, no webcam or cameraphone?, flatbed scanner? 

Now, flatbed scanner to produce a video is a wee bit stretching it but what do I know ...

LoL, I was thinking of a still picture to start off with anyway... 

[futuristic]

@CLaNZeR:
I must say your work is truly inspiring.

I was playing today with my tri-gate setup and noticed what we all have noticed. There is repulsion before magnet enters into the "ring" and after it leaves magnetic force is pulling it back.

So I thought "Why not avoid this two spots"?
See here:


This is side look of what I am building now
I will release magnet from the top, and the pray that it comes back to the top or even further.

[AquariuZ]

@Omnibus

Well if Da Vinci had GeoMag it would take him a day to get a working toy. (Dare I say the "P" word?)

It should take the brains in here no more than a week or so then :-)

I will try to make a drawing.

The idea is to make a ramp where the roller follows a fixed path along a single row of triangles, and at maximum speed when passing the last triangle follows the ramp into an 180? turn thus reversing polarity and accelerating again back to where it came from. Will need two layers of triangles spread widely apart with the ramp in the middle.

It?s 01:43 am here and my wife told me if she hears another steel ball rolling on the dining table I can sleep on the couch. Hmm. Who needs sleep anyway.

Let me see what I can find to make a ramp but first I will post a drawing. Microsoft Pain(t) hehe.

I can get a camera tomorrow from a neigbour I guess.

[Lakes]

@AquariuZ

Like the the layout here? http://freespace.virgin.net/tony.colayouts/Race%20Track%207.htm

[sm0ky2]

@ futuristic

the magnetic field, be it a forced monopole, or bipolar, tripolar.

extends from the steel balls at a vector angle, of the combined magnets.

for instance, if you have 2 magnetic bars at 45-degrees in each direction, the magnetic meridian will be at the vertical



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so, bending the magnets away in such a manner will actually create an unwanted "sticky-spot".
i have to admit i had the very same idea, and had to learn why it didnt work, the hard way.
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@ Aquiriuz
As far as using the Half-Gates,  i think what Omni said earlier about that is the most likely situation. similar to a pendulum, the energy you input when forcing it throuhg the initial repulsion zone, is simply converted from potential<->kenetic energy, as the roller moves back and forth, and is slowly depleted from friction/heat/ect.

Half of a gate creates an additional sticky-spot at the end of the track, whichpulls the magnet back.
this is not present in the full-gate set-up.  (actually it is to a lesser degree, but the energy built up in the middle of the track overcomes this)