Ricks Pipe Dream

[nyctuber]

Until there is decent moderation in here, I will have to agree.

I might just start a forum of my own just for the heck of it.

AZ

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[Cloxxki]

Simplest tracking mechanism I can think of is a wheel on the rotor axle. A pin sitting near its outer diameter, parallel to the axle. On the pin is bearing, fitted inside the end of a rod. The beginning of the rod is again on a bearing, atached to the stator arm.
This I think would work already with 2 magnet groups. Albeit perhaps fast from perfectly. If you'd use a "doubler" like 2 bicycle cogs, 32 tooth on the rotor and 16 tooth on the intermediated, you'd get the required frequency right there. At that point, you'd better buy a rear bicycle wheel though, makes attaching the 32 tooth sprocket a breeze. The 16t ones are especially cheap and efficient, I could offer part numbers (bikes used to be my thing). The 16t cog is well big enough in terms of "throw" towards the stator arm.

Perhaps it's all been tried before, but I've then not been able to find a precedent. I commend Rick for his coming out with these videos before he's done, he obviously doesn't need much of any help, and is wasting time on the critics while he could be proving his point, in a video of a working machine.

Let's just hope Rick is right, and wait for that moment than to wager on it. His methods will be a great example for anyone coming after him. To me, it's looking promising, much more than Mylow's setup ever was.

[lostcauses10x]

Nice try on this one, yet the timing and input energy from the hand is the why of what has been shown.

Again it comes down to  the how of correcting this problem.

So it is input energy to drive the wheel, as well as some way to time such external energy to make it work.

Well so far it is using the hand as a solenoid to push pull the wheel.
Strange how folks do not understand. 
They think they are just timing it, instead of supplying the input energy that is driving the wheel.

Rick It will be interesting to see if you can devise a way to over come this.  You are now to the point in this were folks say it becomes imposible to do by just magnets. 
So far it has not been overcome.

Good luck.

[TinselKoala]

I don't want or need your money.  I'd be glad to perform more tests, and already have several planned.

You'll have to be a bit more specific as to what you are defining.  What "valley," and which "starting point" are you referring to?  And how could I possibly demonstrate the "performance" of the wheel without the stator mounted?  The wheel is surely not going to perform on its own.

No tests are going to prove much of anything until I complete my timing track, as that is the whole objective of getting this to work at maximum efficiency.  Testing my ability to manually time the stator movement won't yield any useful data, since it is impossible for me to accurately move the stator after just a few seconds of operation.  As soon as the spinning quickens, everything becomes a blur to me and I cannot visually distinguish the timing points, so have to quit.  Still, it does demonstrate that this method produces quick and poweful accelleration.  I think that the flywheel test, which I hope to do this evening, should tell us quite a bit when compared to the output in video 16.  I'm also going to try some video playback in slow motion to get a better idea of exactly how I want to lay my track out.  I will leave just a single magnet group on the wheel, and start from a dead stop with attraction at the front end and moving the stator for repulsion at the tail end.  As soon as the group passes by the stator, I will move the stator arm out of the way and wait for the wheel to run down to a stop.  The entire movement, from dead start to stop, will be timed.  After doing numerous such tests while videotaping, I will go back to the sequence that produced the best results (longest duration) and view that video segment in slow motion to determine the exact stator movement that needs to be reproduced.  And then I will know exactly how to lay down my monorail track.  Tests such as this are really the only important ones to be considered at this time.  After the timing system is completed I will perform any number of tests to your specifications, and perhaps if Chet comes up then he can observe the tests and also lend a hand.  It was really difficult, in video 16 to attempt maintaining timing with one hand while taking a tachometer reading with the other hand, so an extra set of hands would definitely come in handy.  I'd aadvise you to carefully review videos 15 and 16, and watch the method I am using to provide rotation.  Then think about tests which would pertain to this mode of operation and let me know what you come up with.

Best regards,

Rick   

"The wheel is surely not going to perform on its own."
Actually, that's quite correct.

Rick, how are your stator movements in any material way different from what I am illustrating in the Minato Effect video (the autokinetic magnet motor effect)?
(feel free to skip ahead and start at 3:00 where the action begins.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXpEqoDJDbM

At some point you will have a linkage worked out and a timing system that will "time" as you say your stator movement. At that point you will need to compare rundown times as I have tried to show you, in order to "tune" your timing system--you don't really think it will work the very first time, do you?

So I will here and now make this prediction in front of Allah and everybody: Your device will "run" better with the timing device and stator disengaged and fixed in a motionless position, than it will with all parts operational and "timed" to your desired specification. Of course I will be happy to see you prove me wrong.

Best regards,
TK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4bYfCiZioY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc-Zr0TEbAU

(Sorry, EDIT to add: Since you are supplying energy to the system by moving the stator mount, even in the initial tests that you have described, the proper control condition for comparison is a bit harder to set up. But I am sure you are up to it. Even the tests you describe should give you some useful information.)

[ramset]

TK

Nice tunes

How come your the only one aloud to play?

You have more toys than anybody [even stuffed ones]!!

Who knows what this nice test bed will evolve into [It definitely ain't gonna break the bank]

Rick is Top ,Top shelf people   with lots of smarts

Chet

Anyway back to work for me

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