MylowHJ Replication - Discussion

[wattsup]

Actually I never thought of magnets in this way but we could consider them also as being applied in series or in parallel. The MylowHJ and HJ wheels have magnets in parallel whereas a rotor with alternating polarity magnets would be in series. The parallel placement would reinforce each polarity for strength, whereas the series placement would favor overall speed.

Anyways now that I know the magnet does not perform in a loop, the question is finding non loop configurations that can produce enough spin to reach the next segment. I think this is what they don,t want us to realize. Holy cow. lol

So think of this about a magnet. We know that the north polarity exits one end and enters the center blotch while the south polarity exits the blotch and enters the other polarity end.

Now when you put two magnets in parallel where they are held apart by their mutual repulsion, so how does the north field know which magnet it exited from to then re-enter the same magnets blotch field. Could it be that this is the "magnetic confusion" that creates the vortexes when placed in parallel.

[queue]

@ que, I wood liken 2 straitn 1 thing out, as i am buldn myself. ur mags r imperial? no? or are they metric,thanx

Rotors i am using ..

[vince]

I've been playing around with this thing since the first posting.  After trying all the materials that Mylow used ( aluminum disc, horseshoe magnets and different rotor magnets ) and getting poor results I tried some very plain items and gotten as good if not better results than I did using all the proper items that Mylow used.

Steel rotor (bicycle wheel).
Plain low strength ceramic magnets (Disc kind )
Two strong ceramic magnets (rectangular)
Paper clips

By taping the ceramic magnets to the paper clips I can position them anywhere on the wheel.

First of all you don't need the horseshoe magnet. Facing a north pole and a south pole to the rotor works just as well.
What I found was that clustering them in groups of 3 or 4 then a space it would easily pull itself around on it's own (PROVIDING YOU DON'T CLOSE THE LOOP)., all the way to over 300 degrees of rotation.  As soon as you close the loop it meets resistance at the beginning of the loop.  Ive been trying all kinds of combination and can almost get it to go a full one and a half times around on its own but it always looses momentum and finds a resistance point. 

Mylow may have stumbled on to the right combination with his magnets. It seems that spacing has everything to do with success. By getting just the right space between each cluster you can increase the momentum  greatly and get the rotor to pull thru past the next cluster.

I would have posted a video but there really isn"t that much to see. After seeing the way this thing pulls itself around I really do think Mylo may have got just the right combination.

I'll keep playing with the positioning. Got to have a positive attitude with these things!!

Vince

[vince]

Sorry about that. Forgot to unzip the file. This should work.

Vince

[jester]

As soon as you close the loop it meets resistance at the beginning of the loop.  Ive been trying all kinds of combination and can almost get it to go a full one and a half times around on its own but it always looses momentum and finds a resistance point. 

Say what? If you are getting more then one full turn before it stops then please please post a video