Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[Omnibus]

@capthook, that's interesting but is an illustration of only one rotor-stator pair. Do you have the 3D picture of the entire array of rotor magnets interacting w/ the stator. This is where the huge difference occurs, wrought w/ insurmountable troughs, as the experience so far shows. The hope was that Mylow somehow restructured that compound rotor field to somehow have it somehow forming a net tangential vector over the clusters of three until the gate, that is, the cluster of four arrived. to allow repetition of the cycle. Roughly that was the expectation and whether or not he achieved it has to be seen. I'm expecting to see if @X00013 still wants to try it.

[Omnibus]

See, the thing is one can make the rotor turn almost 360 degrees when you start it from what is usually called "sweet spot". But the overcoming of the barrier when the second turn is to commence is the real problem. Thus, if you only have clusters of three (in fact pairs of such clusters, thinking of the Mylow's videos) and even if you succeed to achieve tangential displacement, a moment comes when you arrive at the beginning of the first cluster and this is where the real problem is. We've seen it in more than one cases. Whoever manages to achieve the overcoming of that barrier will be the winner. What was expected here was that the cluster of four was somehow performing that duty and it is still unclear to me whether or not it can really be achieved in this way.

[vortex360]

See, the thing is one can make the rotor turn almost 360 degrees when you start it from what is usually called "sweet spot". But the overcoming of the barrier when the second turn is to commence is the real problem. Thus, if you only have clusters of three (in fact pairs of such clusters, thinking of the Mylow's videos) and even if you succeed to achieve tangential displacement, a moment comes when you arrive at the beginning of the first cluster and this is where the real problem is. We've seen it in more than one cases. Whoever manages to achieve the overcoming of that barrier will be the winner. What was expected here was that the cluster of four was somehow performing that duty and it is still unclear to me whether or not it can really be achieved in this way.

I agree. Getting past the 'sticky spot' is the downfall of all the other designs. I believe his 'unbalanced' magnetic flywheel is why it continued to turn.

[Low-Q]

If it worked for 11 hours, for what reason did it stop?

[Omnibus]

The solution should be something like an Escher picture http://www.funny-games.biz/pictures/746-painting-of-ladders.html. The “sweet spot” is the top of the hill where the ball starts rolling down until it reaches the bottom which is also a top of a follow-up hill and so on, to infinity. The hope was that that quadruple set of rotor magnets plays to role of such enabler.

The above resembles very much what is observed in my favorite device where lifting the ball from A to B would recover the same energy when the ball is back from B to A. However, instead of that, the ball falls a different route whereby the fall from height B back to A through C is higher than the direct A-B, B-A height. So, in the second case, the same A but the fall from B is from a greater height, as it were.