Roll on the 20th June

[The Eskimo Quinn]

I have said this many times but i will briefly explian.

The original wheel was rod drive only.

1) the lower left arc of magnets on the outside (repelling) was powered by an electromagnet.

2) the upper arc was permanent magnets only

3) the axel centre was from and old fan

4)the rear of the axel was direct drive to an 18volt scooter motor

5) the wires from the scooter motor went straight to the electromagnet via a switch.

yes i did operate the switch by hand. However, as there was already power from turning it originally i could keep it running by flicking the switch at every arm pass to fire the rods. There is no outside power from a manual switch not accouted for, as mica swithes which i did not have or simple reed switchs that could have been on the arms would have sufficed without any undue friction as you can bacisally blow on them and they switch, the machine was spinning way too fast for this to be an issue.

What most of the skeptics forget is that an elctromagnet uses no more powwer than a permanent magnet can provide for the same job. all types of lift are broken down eventually into kilowatts of energy used, and that is the reason most gravity machines do not work, simply changing from pullys to springs does not change the lift abilty or outcome because all lift is equal in kilowatts. (leverage exluded)The variance is that we are in a sense cheating. As magnets have their own stored energy, so we have a gain that a straight gravity wheel does not have. the elctromagnet simply replaces that.

why did I not go back down that path? I bought the electromagnets in a box at a garage sale, like i buy many of the things i own. I had no concept of what they would eventually be used for.

They were shaped like a mini I beam, and i bent them slighly to creat an arc (not matching to the wheel circle as i did not want to break the wires)

I do not have the ability to build electro magnets, i have not studied this, and from my understanding, study would be pointless, one example of this is that one extra wire turn could be the difference, so how do you know if it is wire or proximately to the wheel or magnets on the arms or friction from the slide.

all the others you can quickly adjust and try all the combinations, you could alter the magnet and it may not be the problem. Like many of the items i have used this time, I had them or bought thm and they just worked.  I could have purchased any type of magnets for the array that would not have produced the mayernik effect, but i just did. Luck a feeling intuition i don't know i just always seem to pick the right materials.

Most would not believe it, but the wheel you see now are table coasters and place mats glued together so i would have a perfect circle, the fan on the back was on the side of the road with hard rubbish. in fact it was on the ground out in the weather for 6 months, but for some reason never threw it out.

someone even commented on it as it was in a photo when i was first building the wheel. It is 110 volts, no good to me for anything, but i picked it up and kept it all this time.

I bought the large ball bearings you see on the rollers for large trigates before the track was discovered. when you see the aluminuim wheels on the roller they wre scrap from a place i worked at, no idea what i would use the for but i kept them.

Everything happens for a reason is what most people would say. as to why i have the right stuff for the first wheel is no stranger than how i ended up with some of the right stuff for the second

I won't be answering further questions on that subject.

Would i have built it if i knew how to make electromagnets and what was the right power level required? sure. it only uses power during the pulse, the rest of the time the energy is unused.

It ran a small car radio, strange thing was it did not cut out during the pulse, thre was static and you could not hear the words when switching, but there was static so there was still power between pulses


PS. as to evil roy slade?

The saddest part in this whole story is rather than AQ saying "I've tried, given it my best, but have not been successful like the thousands who have tried before me" (and earn the respect of naysayers and stop the AQ bashing for being honest) he clings to the idea that he has provided the world with something extraordinary.  Such a sad little man...

Funny i though the trillions of dollars in free designs alone fullfillied that requirement even without the wheel. My life has already meant something to the future of mankind. What did you do today.? It's on this list for you champ.

[kremlin01]

AQ, great vid, I'm sure that little amused chuckle you allowed yourself, will have ****ed a few of the naysayers off.

'and still they watched, and stheir wonder grew'

regards,Bren.

[Rusty_Springs]

While we are waiting for Archer's new video.

I found this video from March.   Interesting approach using low cost small wheel. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQK7rOCTV14

I am hoping to start a build soon as I get some parts I ordered.

Bill

Hi Bill
Funny the video is not much different to what Archers doing but what the guy says at the end is totally right and thats something like, not to constructive and not much happening here but it shows what happens if someone is trying to biuld something like this.
Archers latest Video tells us theres no wall yet it keeps hitting a wall that he needs to push past before it will move in the direction he wants, funny that.
Take Care Bill
Graham

[madsen]

Just a couple questions and one comment:

yes i did operate the switch by hand. However, as there was already power from turning it originally i could keep it running by flicking the switch at every arm pass to fire the rods.

I'm not sure I follow this---please correct me if I'm wrong.  Did you manually switch the electromagnets on an off as the wheel rotated?  How did your wheel then differ from a regular electric motor?  In any case, the electromagnets were drawing current from a battery or other source, so it couldn't be a self-contained PM device, am I right?

all types of lift are broken down eventually into kilowatts of energy used

I'm sure this is a typo, as a kilowatt is a unit of power, not energy of course. 

[oak]

For all of the newbies, Queue works for steorn to try and derail this machine.

With all due respect, Archer, I know Queue.  I guarantee you that he does not work for Steorn.