Roll on the 20th June

[pillager]

Now he's a phrophet!

I've had enough of the drug induced weirdness in this thread....later

flame away and add to this great thread!!!!

[queue]

Sleep Array test :

It's been two days the array sleeps.
i tested the magnets lift potential today .. they were exactly the same as the video the other day ..
That made me like Hmmm ..
i know what i saw before, there WAS a change.
i started investigating what else could have caused the field discrepancy.

Seems when i picked the wheel up to move after making the video( it is quite heavy ) 
i leaned it up to heavily against my stomach. In doing so i pressed the rotor wheel against the alan key nut that was holding it anti slip to the axle..
As a result : the rotor wheel was then rubbing ever so slightly up against the axle mount
causing increased friction to the rotor wheel and resulting in a performance degradation  of the lift.

The problem was NOT with the magnets afterall .. it was human(thats me) induced error ..

So there you have it ..
the array magnets - it seems - do not loose strength sitting idle in the array .. or should i say perhaps ..
my previous observation was/is invalid .. maybe they do loose strength . .one would need a good meter to check the mags before and then after to be sure.

BTW : if you remember
My wand seemed to restore the magnets previously ? ? . .
actually the power of the Mag Wand pulled the rotor wheel back into place by attracting the mags in the rotor towards the wand. . no more rubbing .. magnets seemingly restored by the mag wand .. :-)


i have re-tightened the alan pinch nut so that the rotor wheel cannot slip again..

Quinn .. you need to write an email just like this one ..
explaining how you fucked up about the SOG and misunderstood god and/or physics 
and how you now realize a wheel that spins itself is not within you or any of the replicators to produce..

You've spent how many hundreds of hours trying everything you know  ? ? 
You can't make it work ..
and you know it ..
:-)

[capthook]

@ Exx - yes DIY - you've told me 3 times now.  I'm not telling you to do anything.  But I thought the main purpose of overunity.com was to collaborate, work together and share ideas.
I have, do and will continue to DIY.  You want to try something I/others suggest and share the result - please do! (Edit: and you often do  ) You want to ignore them - fine.  But please stop thinking they are all a request directed to you to complete.

@ Shak - thanks for the reply
And I agree - the issue raised by Rusty doesn't seem to be a deal breaker.  But considering it may give better understanding of the system interactions and helpful in optimization.  Or not.  But considering as many variables as possible could widen the road to perfection.
and this: "I may have overlooked the fact that he was trying to be helpful. I guess that part of his communication is often lost"
As seems to happen often in the often adversarial atmoshpere of this thread.  It seems sometimes useful information/ideas are passed over and contributed to nay-sayers when the intent, at that time and place, may very well have been offered as help.
Have a good vacation - I'm headed to the beach myself! 

@kude - yes - that should have been 'field lines' rather than 'flux'. tx

[capthook]

It's been two days the array sleeps.
i tested the magnets lift potential today .. they were exactly the same as the video the other day ..

Thanks for the update!  Glad to hear there was no apparent loss!  And that was a great story of how it all happened.

You going to leave it and check it again later?  Maybe from time to time and see if it loses strenght over 'x' days/weeks?

Kind of hope you don't - would rather you keep trying to make it work! 

[exxcomm0n]

Quinn .. you need to write an email just like this one ..
explaining how you fucked up about the SOG and misunderstood god and/or physics 
and how you now realize a wheel that spins itself is not within you or any of the replicators to produce..

You've spent how many hundreds of hours trying everything you know  ? ? 
You can't make it work ..
and you know it ..
:-)

Speak for yourself dude.

You might not make a working wheel, but someone might.

I still think there is a dampening effect from the array placement over time, but I have to rebuild the dirt devil w/. new mags and STRONGER TAPE (anyone know of really strong tape, or clear scotch type stuff like you use Queue?) to test as you have.

This is a TOY, and I see it as providing amusement and amazement long past now.

So please do not blanket statement like that unless you are truly tuned into the future and can furnish me with a winning lottery ticket number.