Roll on the 20th June

[The Eskimo Quinn]

this is what the thread is all about, i wish someone had suggested it when i still had the Mayernic  loop intact, just made up a track section and put aluminium wheels on the roller section no ball.

its like like a f......g  rail gun

great input


just so you know that was an inch clearance over the array, seems to run as well or better, may be the clearance of the metal clips though just letting the natural power shine through.

[Fred Flintstone]

Freddy babes which product of their's struck you as appropriate to use here?  Chet

The ability to turn a permanent magnet on and off seems pretty revolutionary. I thought that the "wall" was the only major problem that we have with Archer's wheel? This company has products that may make that trivial to solve. Has everyone here heard of http://www.magswitch.com.au/  before now?

Freddy

[The Eskimo Quinn]

unfortunately freddy it takes as much enrgey to turn off or "choke" a field as it does to create one, the switch simply chokes the existing field, same as moving mags in and out takes energy you may as well use the electromagnet, at least you know the result.

[helmut]

I had played a little more with  the Track and made a sketch to invite everyone to do a test as well.

helmut

[purepower]

unfortunately freddy it takes as much enrgey to turn off or "choke" a field as it does to create one, the switch simply chokes the existing field, same as moving mags in and out takes energy you may as well use the electromagnet, at least you know the result.

Sorry, but I disagree. I'm with freddy on this one.

If it were an electrical system, I would agree with you as this would be an "anti-"electromagnet: you use energy to turn off the field instead of on.

However, this is not the case. It is a mechanical system that controls the field. If you read the product descriptions, it is clear the mechanical energy used to turn on or off is not equivalent to the magnetic energy.

Many of their products can lift hundreds of pounds with an "easy" half rotation of the handle. Clearly a HUGE advantage.

I always said if you could turn off or minimize the field while moving in and maintain a greater amount of output, with the energy to do so less than the difference, you would have FE. These do just that.

Great find Freddy! I think that's the missing link! Now I don't know if I should finish the trigate wheel I'm working on or start on this...

-PurePower