Magnet motor in Argentina

[Feb2006]

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"Except for that particular stator magnet which is to be raised (the raising, due to the repulsive forces but also being assisted by another ramp ? the triangular one)"

the raising arm have no repulsive forces(maybe a werry week one)
only the arm thats going down will have repulsive force from
the approaching rotor magnets.

[Feb2006]

But i also think that there still will be a spring in play. It should keep the stator magnet down once it has descended. If there isn't one then the stator magnet might pop back up because it's head on with the rotor magnets (which cant move up). So i guess there might be a spring alongside with the controlled descending system. How else would the stator magnet stay down?

dutchy1966, see the last picture of Feb2006. That construction takes care of descended magnets popping up without springs ? it appears that the motor cap holds down most of the stator magnets all the time, except for these two stator magnets that have to be raised and lowered.

exactly no spring in Torbays motor, maybe it will work with a spring somehow.

I would do the rising of the arm slightly different.

[Omnibus]

I didn't mean the arm has repulsive forces. What I meant was the repulsive forces among the stator magnets. Anyway, these are details. I guess the main idea is already pretty clear. What remains is to figure out the concrete dimensions of the details so that they can be machined, put together and tried.

[dutchy1966]

I didn't mean the arm has repulsive forces. What I meant was the repulsive forces among the stator magnets. Anyway, these are details. I guess the main idea is already pretty clear. What remains is to figure out the concrete dimensions of the details so that they can be machined, put together and tried.

Yep, that's right. Anyone already figured out what size the whole engine is? I think it's a good idea to agree on a size and come to a building plan together. That way everyone has the same info and at the sametime the information is spread around the world. (Just in case it is as good as claimed for!)
Lets work together here....

[jaybird]

the rotor cap is the ?sist. de descenso controlado? in the general view of the motor (prototipo en corte.jpg on page 25) and not the ?tapa? as you?ve indicated in your schematic.

...slip of grey matter...thats right, it is the system to control the lowering of the magnet levers.

Got in a few magnets today...they are some that I had already ordered before this project, but I am still working on this as time allows...

dutchy1966:? thats a good idea...I am willing.




? I dont think that there are 2 so-different motors as Omnibus stated above....I see the metal example in the same manner as the wooden prototype, (save a few improvements), a slightly different rotor setup...the one made from wood needed a longer axle to keep it from wobbling perhaps since there is more gap in a wooden prototype....and a few odds and ends.
? I dont see the magnets in the metal prototype's lever arms below the "ramp"...they lie flat on top of the triangular "ramp" just as in the wooden one.

Omnibus, that rotor drawing made me stop and think.....still thinking...maybe a new process...

? I am in it for the count now....main focus will be this replicaton, shelving others for now....

I do not see any size constraints, and I see that there are 3 different prototypes Torbay made...1 small metal, one Large metal, and probably a first wooden model...all different sizes...so we can assume the principle works to scale perhaps and decide on a size:
       I am proposing a nice round 4 or 6" inch diameter figure.