Roll on the 20th June

[jratcliff]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ah4rDjRDZd0

Now let's see this in closed loop, please. Or finish the fucking wheel. All the rest is garbage.

Exactly.  Is it just me, or does it seem that Archer is just making this shit up as he goes along?  He claims to have built a working wheel before but his last two recent attempts have failed.  He starts working on them up to a certain point until he realizes they aren't going to work, it gets too hard, or he gets bored.  Then he gets distracted and goes off working on something completely different.

I don't think he knows what the heck he is doing and his failure to reproduce his wheel, as described in the past, is a major disappointment.

I donated $25 so Archer would finish his wheel, not go off playing with SMOT toys.

John

[shakman]

15th try to post thegraphic that should be here........

Hehehe... it looks like we've both been hard at work doing CAD pics

I was thinking along the same lines as you (great minds think alike  ) but (obviously) got a bit side-tracked with another angle.

If you can use the SMOT to help the SoG sliding arms to break the wall, then the sliding arms could add torque. I think Archer said something about some issues with the sliding arms: "my personal opinion is that this will prove too powerful for the rods with permanent mags and need the speed" - but maybe the SMOT might take some strain off the arms? And maybe gears could be used somehow...?

But, yeah, as I said, we're definitely thinking along the same lines 

shakman

[broli]

I want to warn archer for the next wave of criticism that's coming. Namely after the wheel spins they'll use the "the magnets will die off quickly" argument. This proves that no matter what you do or achieve these people will always stick a thorn in your eye.

[shakman]

Exactly.  Is it just me, or does it seem that Archer is just making this shit up as he goes along?  He claims to have built a working wheel before but his last two recent attempts have failed.  He starts working on them up to a certain point until he realizes they aren't going to work, it gets too hard, or he gets bored.  Then he gets distracted and goes off working on something completely different.

I don't think he knows what the heck he is doing and his failure to reproduce his wheel, as described in the past, is a major disappointment.

I donated $25 so Archer would finish his wheel, not go off playing with SMOT toys.

John

Hey John, it's Brendan here (I emailed you a few weeks ago).

I can understand your concern, and yes, Archer is making new discoveries as he goes. He made a reasonably important one while he was trying to iron out some potential issues with his first design regarding the rods possibly not being able to handle the power produced by the permanent magnets. He played around with some different configurations then stumbled across some pretty cool effects with the magnets alone.

It's a bit like the Thomas Edison/incandescent lightglobe analogy most inventors like to come back to. The concept was there, the vision was there, but there were dozens of broken bulbs, electric shocks and new discoveries along the way.

I don't think you've wasted your $25. By your own admission, you were paying mostly for the entertainment value, right? 

shakman

[shakman]

I want to warn archer for the next wave of criticism that's coming. Namely after the wheel spins they'll use the "the magnets will die off quickly" argument. This proves that no matter what you do or achieve these people will always stick a thorn in your eye.

Hey Broli,

I fully expect that a few will resort to any argument to try and bring Archer down. I wouldn't be surprised if a few of our regular "contributors" used arguments as ridiculous as "Duhh... everyone know's you shot that video in space dude. Earth physics don't apply there" if it means that, in their own little world and own small minds, they remain correct.

So as far as I care they can try to stick a thorn where the sun don't shine. If we have a working wheel and they don't want to know about it then let their ignorance be a thorn in their own behinds 

shakman