Roll on the 20th June

[wizardofmars]

Why don't you read "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki

Great book, but the wisdom of crowds is all about finding solution to market based problems or problems of collective coordination. Fine for economics, but it doesn't have much use when you are discussing physics problems.

What you on on this forum is closer to groupthink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

[capthook]

What you on on this forum is closer to groupthink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

Good observation wiz.

How about a call to arms?
Of everything in this (very long) thread - the mag switch has really caught my attention.  Wether it has been 'discovered' before is not the issue - I (and obviously most) was unaware of this interaction.

It allows a large magnetic force to be manipulated with a relatively small input.  Who else finds this interesting/important?

So we've got lots of bodies/minds here.  Let's analyze/test/perfect/optimize this concept!!
And share your results!!
Here's some of mine so far:
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,4540.msg114474.html#msg114474
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,4540.msg115040.html#msg115040
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,4540.msg114320.html#msg114320

Or has this just become a chat forum? (yes I'm guilty of running my mouth to  )

Call to arms!  Let's perfect the mag switch! ! ! ! !

[Rusty_Springs]

Hi Bat
Keep up the good work and I do like your video 6 to 9 showing a donut magnet reacting no different along the track as a cylinder magnet, I should have been looking at your site earlier it may have stopped all the arguing about my onewaygate v archers design being the same in principle just different types of magnets.
Also if you look down the list of this site http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/minatowheel/files/
you will see a file called moving censor which was done in 2005, in this I am doing a couple of things of interest first I am testing a censor to see if a rotating magnet has enoth force to move a censor up and down, you will see the censor bounce up and down on the left of the video, why would I be testing this?
Second I show how you spin a bar magnet rotor moving a block magnet up and down, you will see me moving the block magnet up and down to keep the bar magnet rotor spinning, this shows its not hard to make magnets spin using your hard but doing it automatticly is a different story.
Third when I stop moving my hands the rotor keeps spinning for a while, if I started the video at this point people would think the rotor is spinning by itself and if I stop vidoeing before the rotor stops they would think it just keeps spinning.
Take Care All
Graham

[gwhy!]

Of everything in this (very long) thread - the mag switch has really caught my attention.  Wether it has been 'discovered' before is not the issue - I (and obviously most) was unaware of this interaction.

It allows a large magnetic force to be manipulated with a relatively small input.  Who else finds this interesting/important?

So we've got lots of bodies/minds here.  Let's analyze/test/perfect/optimize this concept!!
And share your results!!


Call to arms!  Lets perfect the mag switch! ! ! ! !

Good shout... And yes.

[bullsnbears1]

Good observation wiz.

How about a call to arms?
Of everything in this (very long) thread - the mag switch has really caught my attention.  Wether it has been 'discovered' before is not the issue - I (and obviously most) was unaware of this interaction.

It allows a large magnetic force to be manipulated with a relatively small input.  Who else finds this interesting/important?

The first and most obvious thing we've learned is that the track should hold the smaller neos and the runner should be much larger than those of the track. Batman seems to be doing this - many of the other guys seem to ignore this.

Next, what you said about the switch. If what Archer is writing is indicative of his latest wheel, he doesn't even have to have the steel touching, just within 10mm. This is huge.

I was right, it is binary ferros facing you roller on a piece of steel, neos on another piece of steel one piece need only come within 10mm of the other and the field transfers to the ferro on the track. will not work effectively without the metal. so there is simply an outrigger out the side of the wheel that is one of the contacts to a bunch of neos in the centre of the wheel. the outrigger passes within 10mm of the steel that runs back to the ferros on the track, it only need be in front of the roller/magnet on the wheel to activate it in advance and pull it through