Roll on the 20th June

[shakman]

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We need like a street fight  or something
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I'd be up for that 

EDIT: I notice ERS is in Melbourne. I can be there in 3hrs tops if required

[exxcomm0n]

I wish you guys would go after each other in the private message system. Don't like AQ send him a PM. I know it futile to ask.Don't like someone else, take it to PM. Futile. It's the equivalent of taking it outside.

But where's the fun in that?
Especially when they get to get thier licks in publicly?

@exx or gwhwy or shak
To me Archer's last video was murky, Can someone else, like you guys, show Archer's Key Gate in your current wheel setup and do a better job of showing exactly what he is saying. I get the principle of what he he is saying but not how he applies it. From what I can gather, as the traveller hits the track section with iso ferrite rods under it it triggers the rods from being the stop end of the track to the entry point of the track while the traveller is above the iso-ferrites. As far as I can tell from his video, I didn't see how it worked.
Maybe you could make your track entirely with iso ferrite rods and just excite a few ahead of the traveller all the way around the track. Sort of like putting the carrot on a stick out before the horse. That would save money on magnets.

Sorry man. My dance card is full of Dirt Devil right now and I plan to try proximity ramp before magnetic switch (for details I explain earlier).

Please don't let yourselves get sidetracked again.

Fair request.
But fair warning is that I usually do as I damn well please and if you would like this particular thing done right now, I'd suggest some DIY as it'll probably get realized sooner.

No offense, just saying my time is my own.
You'd probably say the same.

Besides, I'm just an old burnt out stoner anyway.
What could my opinion or testing really be worth?

[capthook]

Played with the Archurian gate on my wheel today.

Heres the movie from my server - hi res - 50 megs
http://relativity.ca/AQuinnwheel/aq-gateswitch.wmv

In low res .. from my server
http://relativity.ca/AQuinnwheel/aq-archuriangate.wmv

Great vid queue!  I laughed out loud at the "big ass magnets...Rod of God" comment.

Question:  What kind of attraction is there between the two screwdriver extensions when joined?
What effort is required to seperate them to cancel the effect?
The required connection/seperation input energy is what would be critical in implenting this.

There's got to be numerous ways to "turn on/off" the switch - the question is which will be most effecient and which might be enough to close the loop?

tx again for the entertaining vid

[exxcomm0n]

Isn't it interesting that so many on this thread are afraid of being taken, yet you recommend that I say I am?

So, I stay true to form and use the wrong word yet again.

Yeah chure....but am I one of those you see so desperately in need of outside vilification errrrrr.....support?

I was just saying that so far your mentality is beautiful and for those (like me) that seem to spend an inordinate amount of time in such places, that might be seen as alluring.

  It's an odd world.  As to your question:  Taken, certainly not.  Freely given, most definitely.  And happily so.  Don't feel too sad though, for all you know I have no teeth and a bad case of the rickets.  We are all of us just words on a page, and I will worry about unwanted advances when someone invents a way to transport humans through LAN cables.

K then. mission accomplished.
He must be an awesome dude to deal with the toothless ricket-ness of you.

As to the Archer Gate, I have a theoretical question.  Do you suppose that if more wires are added to the "feeder" magnet that the strength of each wire diminishes?  I will send away for some iso-ferrite, but while I wait...
And couldn't a magnet pull itself along a ferrite track then?
Thanks for any insight.
In Peace,
Jen

I'd think that (again this is stuff already proven to be flawed) it would be the only way to make sure of uniform on/off type behavior.
I envision one wire for each pole of each switched MkE, but all we (well I, supposedly since I "donated") have to do is wait a little longer and we'll know.

That never means it can't be improved upon though.

[capthook]

On a second note:

Having now visited Archer's site for the 1st time in awhile - I see where his agenda and intentions are made more clear. (must be the posts some were refering to?)
If he had posted more of that information over here - I might not have misunderstood it...

Either way:

Archer: I apologize again for my rant against you.

No matter what - you are a fellow human being and thus deserving of civility and compassion.

I know I sure would have been pissed to hear someone rant against me like I did you......
Especially considering you have done loads to share your work with others...

All the best....