Gravity Motor Patent 7/10/08

[TinselKoala]

Sorry, I don't have time to do any more tests as I have TDY coming up tomorrow, and will be out for at least a month.
I can report that JK's idea of a ferromagnetic wire around the outside and the inside, works as described. The magnets just barely cling to the wires, and when they pass the stator they are fired all the way across the channels to the other wire, where they adhere until passing the next stator. I'll try to post a short vid this evening to show this detail.
Then I will be gone for a while, so you all can get back to work.

[starcruiser]

@mondrasek,

Have you tried using some aluminum shielding to block the field from the approaching "mass switch"? This may reduce the wall from the stator magnet. A couple of pieces of shielding on the left and right of the stator magnet might do it. any thoughts on this guys?

[mondrasek]

@mondrasek,

Have you tried using some aluminum shielding to block the field from the approaching "mass switch"? This may reduce the wall from the stator magnet. A couple of pieces of shielding on the left and right of the stator magnet might do it. any thoughts on this guys?

Not me.  My build is not precise enough to do any worthwhile experiments with.  And I don't know anything about magnetic shielding theory, though I'm sure if I searched this forum I would find alot of info, some of which would be true.  This sounds like a job for TK and/or Clanzer!

Anyone else built or planing to build one of these things?

Who's gonna put on the electromagnetic stators and pulse them to eliminate the wall?  Or are we all convinced the energy to pulse them would be the same amount as the energy to push through the wall?

[LarryC]

Larry, with all due respect, you don't know WTF you are talking about. The wheel in the video  is so well-balanced and the bearings are so free, that the imbalance caused by a SINGLE SLIDING MAGNET remaining out-of-position provides more than enough torque to rotate the wheel until the imbalance point is on the bottom. This can be seen in the video in certain places, as the wheel rocks back and forth around the repulsive "wall" at the end of several stator trials.
Build a better one, show it, THEN criticize my work. Otherwise, you can take a long walk off a short pier, because you are already all wet.

(EDIT speling)

Sorry TK, just stating what I learned from other wheel builds. Working on a couple of other projects right now, so I'll just wait for Clanzer's build.

Regards, Larry

[TinselKoala]

@Omega_0
You are absolutely right. I should have done a repeat of the empty-rotor baseline trial at the very end to check that the apparatus had not changed during the previous tests. This is (or would have been) what is called an "A-B-A" design, where before and after baseline data are compared to data from an experimental manipulation.
Thank you for pointing this out. Rest assured, as soon as I am able, I will be doing such comparisons.

@starcruiser:
Any conductive material near moving magnets will have eddy currents induced within it. These eddy currents get their power from the motion of the magnets, and retard that motion correspondingly, even though the material itself isn't attracted to the magnet. Lenz's law shows that the eddy currents themselves generate a magnetic field, and this field always opposes the motion of the magnet responsible. This can be illustrated easily by dropping a NdB cylinder magnet down an aluminum or copper tube. The fall of the magnet is considerably retarded by these opposing mag fields from the eddy currents.
Also, any real conductive material has resistance, which means that in addition to subtracting energy from the motion of the magnet, even more energy is dissipated into the environment through Joule heating.
Energy is subtracted from the swing of the arm in very sensitive laboratory balances, thus dampening the swing so the scale can be read, by moving a magnet past aluminum plates (or vice versa).
If anyone can figure out a path and/or geometry for a magnetic shield that avoids these effects, please let me know, right away. Please.

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