Roll on the 20th June

[X00013]

@ archer, only if one had access to bare naked sphere mags

[sm0ky2]

and here we are again, 2 years later. still woking on this one. 

life has gotten in the way of things with the economy going to hell and all... so my build has been sitting on the shelf.
only to be pulled out, played with, examined, thought about, and put back on the shelf....

these past few days, i have been working on it once again.
i've almost completed it, after the fathers' day festivities i shall return to the device, and have a video posted here tonight to show my progress.

now,. before the ranting starts again, i already know many of you truly believe what your physics professors told you, and that this sort of thing is "impossible".  we've discussed the whats and whys of how this cannot work. so theres no sense in rehashing the whole argument. i've already proven to myself that this thing works, so im not going anywhere.      just sit back and enjoy the show
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ive played around with various magnet strengths/sizes/masses
to try to find the appropriate flux to mass ratio that is needed.
i decided to stick with the 1x2 rectangle ceramics for everything.
gravity is distorted in different ways (up vs down) when i try to mix and match magnet types, and the stronger magnets have a more compressed field, so theres not a lot of linear movement ( allbeit very powerful). The ceramics are strong enough to lift their own weight, yet heavy enough that their momentum can easily overcome the repulsion field from a like pole. which makes them the best choice that i have readily available.

still using the linear-bearings, that were invented earlier in this thread. have a slight problem with one of them, which i'll probably have to deal with in a little bit.

added brackets on either side of the wheel-support to hold the magnet-arrays.  the lower (repulsion) array is larger, composed of 12 magnets, while the upper (attraction) array has only 4 magnets.
This is because of a problem i ran into early on. the arms simply get stuck on the upper magnets. Moving the upper array too far away kills their purpose, so the only option was to make the array small enough that it cant stop the heavier arms, but strong enough to assist in the lifting of the arms.

the other problem was in the angle of the arrays themselves.
my solution to that was to mount them so they have an adjustable angle. the angloe is very important, not only for the lift effect, but also to direct the repulsion-wall away from the incomming magnets

the distance between the arms and the magnet-arrays is fixed.
the device can only operate at a set distance from the arrays.
the lifting array must be able to lift, at its midpoint ( or slightly above) without the assistance of the upper array.
mounting the upper array last, it must be at a distance enough not to "catch" the arms, but close enough to aid in the lifting to the device turns itself to the next arm.

when the two are in perfect balance, it goes around, at a fairly steady pace, tic, tic tic,   until something moves, wobbles, gets stucks, or what have you, then i have to reset the whole deal.

so right now, ive added extra support for the whole thing, and stabalized it quite a bit. gave it steadier mounting brackets for the magnets, and about have everything in place to give it another whirl.
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if anyone out there is planning on building / still building / rebuilding/ ect / one of these devices.....  my best advice is to steer clear of exact measurements, and size or shape of the magnets, and this that and the other that you would expect to focus soley on.
and instead pay attention to the only two important variables.
1) mass of the entire moving arm
2) strength of the magnet (measured by the mass two opposing magnets can freely lift).

every set of magnets is different, not just individually, but how they work as a group. also rearranging them within the array can change the shape of the field.
this is reduced greatly by using expensive precision-gaussed magnets, and should be considered if you plan on mass producing.

What you make it out of, doesnt really matter.
archer chose to use big pieces of metal.
i saw one guy make it out of a CD and some plastic straws.

mine is mostly made of wood....

heres a pic for now,   video comming tonight

[infringer]

wassup SMOKY!

Good Job bud I am sure this can work some way or another if anything this is a good way to brute force a gravity based motor if it is possible I am sure this design will lead to a working one with the correct configuration of weight angles and extension just after hell maybe before 6 what do I know maybe we need to use a swastika like design so the ends can flip forward IDK shit I haven't hashed much in the way of gravity motors late I've been doing solar thinking wind and researching UFO's which I seem to be a believer in Extraterristrials more and more every day which tells me there is a far greater way to harness energy! Anyhow enjoy I'll look for the video thanks!

[ramset]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and hard work Smoky

Chet

[X00013]

all i got is dis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAj5LiXG5w
good tune to build by