Magnet Motor from Argentina, part2

[mrd10]

Hi Everyone,

I'm still working on the mechanism, this is the critical part, I have to make some modifications to my setup.
Will keep you all posted on my progress.

Never give up, Learn from what you see.

bye for now

Mrd

[Gregory]

I found out tonight, by doing some experimenting, that the magnets are only half the story, the rest is the mechanics. You need to get this right for this motor/generator to work.

Good observation, I totally agree. The machanics as least as important as the magnets themselves. Without the correct mechanics things usually don't work.

Wish you good work!

Gregory

[mrd10]

Hi Again All,

I've built a permanent magnet motor before and the materials I used for that are being used for this project. If your interested check out stephen kundel on google.

Regarding Torbays setup, Its definitely to do with mechanics, basically you want one armature in front to flip up and the armature behind to flip back down as to push the rotor magnet to the next point, and thats what i believe torbay has acheived.

I need to rebuild my mechanism, as i want to do it his way, rather than what Ive done in the following pics, I noticed that my alum flaps were to short therefore it wasnt activating the magnet armatur at the front at the correct time, rather than pursue this avenue, which would probably work, i chose to change it alltogether.

[Dingus Mungus]

  !!!WOW!!!

I am quite impressed by your latest addition to the design. When will a video be availible for us to see the devices current progress and abilities? How far does it turn? Does the wheel arm have any problems lifting the stator magnets? If so I believe by extending the strike plates out further from the fulcrum will help greatly but you must make sure the short side of the stator lifting lever is always hevier then the strike plate end. Your design and rapid prototyping is breath taking. You appear to be very close now...

~Dingus

[mrd10]

Hi Dingus,

give me just a little more time, i shouldn't be too far off. It's only been 3 to 4 weeks, one night a week that Ive been building this.

The rotor wheel arm pushes them down quite easily, with almost no friction, as long as the wheel on the end is running freely. And also what makes them easier to manipulate is because of the ramping up/down on the aluminium plates, youll notice this in the current pics.
What I have in mind there is to extend the ramp from both side, but bend it to where I want it to trigger and not to trigger the armature magnets.
This I believe will either make this thing work or not. On another note the springs underneath which sorry i removed in current pics, im hoping will be enough to push the ones behind back down, If that doesnt work then ill have to make a top disc like in torbays model, Anyway further testing to reveal this soon.

Its been some thinking behind what i'm doing, thats why it takes awhile. Again the strike plates need to be changed, Ive come up with an idea, which will make em in effect longer and therefore should be easier to adjust.

As i'm progressing, I find that changes are necessary, because current design isnt adequate to make it a self runner, Even at one stage there I thought of giving up, but something tells me to push on, and not to give up that easily, really this is a proof of concept design, so i'm going to make every attempt to finish it, even if it takes me some months to do it. Thanks to Walter, he has done something which if works like i think it does has managed a remarkable feat of engineering.

Be assured that I will send a video on my next incarnation.....lol
Sorry if I'm all over the place, its 4 in the morning and I couldn't sleep.   

Cheers,

Mrd