Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[CLaNZeR]

@CLaNZeR,

Can you please explain this more thoroughly:

In the Video at about 9:15

Mylo offers up the Rotor magnet with North Pole getting attracted to the obvious South Pole of the Stator/Armature magnet.
At the same time the bottom South Pole of the Rotor magnet gets pushed away in repulsion from the South Pole of the Stator/Armature magnet as expected.

He then moves the Rotor magnet over to the the other side of the Stator/Armature magnet which we expect to be a North Pole.
The bottom South Pole of the Rotor magnet does not get attracted as expected and the top North Pole does not get Repulsed as expected.

It is like it has hit a NULL spot.

Now we know the Alcimo magnets are weak, so is this because the North Pole of the Stator/Armature is not actually that strong and the Rotor magnets just simply cancel it out?

This would explain why the setup works, attraction pules the Rotor magnets into the stator but there is no sticky spot on the escape as it exits either the non-existent North Pole, or indeed the Weak Pole.

[mpavenir]

Will it take more energy to pull a neo away than the energy to drive a coil to remagneize it?

don't know at all... I would be inclined to believe that there's no significant difference !

So a good point, but hey you got to have a device that will actually do that, before we can do that test

Right, haha.. Someone asked Milow if he could replace his aluminium rotor with a wooden one ?
We french OU seekers are passionately keeping up with your researches.

[CLaNZeR]

Third video with spacing between magnet groups

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7GrHCqobYk&layer_token=bd934eaa027308c8

Hi Bill

Another nice clear video.

But you have got the Rotor North and South Poles facing side ways now and hitting the sticky spot at both ends. You get past the first sticky spot because you push through it and start at a point beyond it. Then when it comes around 360 degree's you simply hit it again.

Keep going though mate, good fast work that end.

Cheers

Sean.

[Omnibus]

@billmehess, now seems the torque is greater. And still, the incomplete setup isn't telling. The whole cooperation of the complete setup of magnets is needed. At this point it's like you let go a stone from the top of the mountain (when you place the rotor at the starting position). When the foot of the mountain is reached the rotor hits back the hill which it cannot surmount (the beginning of your set of mags). This is a well-known situation everyone has experienced. There's something about having one cluster of mags having different number of pieces, existing in a complete set built around the rim.

[CLaNZeR]

Right, haha.. Someone asked Milow if he could replace his aluminium rotor with a wooden one ?

That was me we need to see if the Eddy currents are part of the effect or not.