Roll on the 20th June

[sm0ky2]

@ mark

sorry about the confusion.
that first picture was at the request of ..... someone..
that was taken before i had completely mounted the array, it was just hanging by one screw, and not in its proper position.
where you see it mounted up higher later on, is where it normally sits. it runs from about 7:45 to 9:45. the upper array is much smaller and its still not in the right place yet, thats one of the last tihngs i do, as its' calibration must be done after the rest of the components are operating properly.

my previous arrangement had the two outer arrays on their own stands, seperate from the machine. this sometimes caused a lot of wobble between the 3 pieces and would break down the effect, so i mounted them all to the same stand for added stability. this "remounting" is what forced me to recalibrate everything.

the magnetic array doesnt accelerate anything, it slows the wheel down. all it does is shift the arms.   the arm moves about halfway through the array, and "releases" at just above the horizontal.

i think its sitting a little higher than it previously was, when it was on its own mount.
when i broke the support arm, i had to move everything up about 2 inches. i haven't tweaked out the other problems enough yet to know wether or not that will be an "issue".
the outer arm is still having way more friction that i want it to. those "torque proofing" plates turned out to be a catch-22, it binds and cuts into the wood without them, and it rubs metal on metal with them....   opening the spacing between the arm and the bearing helped a little, but now the main bearing is grinding on the washer thats behind it. (little spacer thing actually), so i'll need to get that fixed before i move forward.

[mscoffman]

the magnetic array doesnt accelerate anything, it slows the wheel down. all it does is shift the arms. 

Funny, by the time you write your book I hope you'll admit to
the fact acceleration is the second derivative of displacement.

[markdansie]

@Smokey2
thanks for al the advice and descriptions. It all made sense to me.
i am still in transit hope to be able to do some work this end soon. Please update me when you have yours or the improved device you have self running again.
Many thanks
Mark

[sm0ky2]

Funny, by the time you write your book I hope you'll admit to
the fact acceleration is the second derivative of displacement.

ok ok.....  it accelerates it linearly.....

i meant it doesnt accelerate the wheel rotationally....

[The Eskimo Quinn]

ok watched the video, now go and watch it yourself, see the part when the rod shoots across but the wheel doesn't keep rotating and the rod falls back, this is most of your problem is that you have calculated the magnetic component and forgot to calculate standard leverage, when the rod shoots across it is not heavy enough to fall each time, eg the distance is too long for the end weight, so you need to add weight near the end of the rod before the magnet. Now it may seem that there will be equal additional weight on both ends, but not when displaced as the lower rod end will have moved inward to the centre, still creating a greater weight difference than exists currently, the greater the weight offset the faster it will fall and create momentum. very impressed so far.