the field lines comming out of the contact-point when the switch is "open" are very few.

when the switch is "closed", the ferrite experiences a fraction of the original magnet's field
directly proportional to the "magnetic resistance" of the contact-point.

i.e. - the contact-points ability to transfer the magnetic field from the magnet to the ferrite.

for sake of comparison, paperclips have a higher "magnetic resistance" than hard steel, such as a needle, or straight-pin

Quote from: X00013 on July 20, 2008, 07:52:58 PM
@ Que, Greta vids, help me out here, I believe the metal rod extension held it in place, not the intensified field effect on round line suppresion (WTF) ferrite mags.(as good as your vids were, i would have liked to seen the effect without the ferrites)

i retried the experiment after removing the ferrite rings using just the screw driver extension but the rotor would not hang there without the wand. i guess the charged ferrite rings helps enough to make the diferrence or upsets the balance enough to cause the rotor to fall..
with just the screw driver extension and no ferrite it didn't work ..

However i now believe that my whole experiment may in fact be invalid ..
Heres why ..

The power and field area of the wand was way more significant that i thought ..
In fact i almost couldn't believe my eyes.
i don't have any fancy lab equipment to measure the gauss intensity but i was shcoked when i took out my sensitve compass , laid it on the floor and watched as it aligned it's needle to mag north..

Once the needle stoppped moving i took the magnetic wand i had used in the last video
to charge the ring ferrites and to my amazement i could make the compass needle swing back and fourth as i swung the wand from a full 5 feet away ..

LOL !!
Really - i couldn't believe my eyes .. Wow !
SO if it effects the compass on the floor from 5 feet away and thats only half of the field effect size.. i measured from my hand to the compass .. so from my hand holding the wand ..going the opposite direction as the compass that makes the field effect some 8 or ten feet in total !

That fact alone completely invalidates my results i think ... Sorry Archer
Moving the wand away from the screwdriver extension not only effected the proximate ferrite rings being charged .. it also effected the whole magnetic array - the rotor .. the kitchen sink ... and probably the neighbours wooden leg too..

fuck
i think maybe i could have used a few too many magnets in my wand (duhhh)
but i was just trying to get something to work ..


Oh well .. c'est la vie

I'll try a test of the rod idea tomorrow if I can find a stash of old removable EMI filters that they used to give you with accessory purchases (probably still do, so you PC type techies out there should have a pretty good resource cache).

Build a pendulum of iron rod with a ferrite weighted end, an arc of MkEs from 4:00 to 8:00, test different polarities effects @ the trigger (actually, touching the mag just about anywhere with the trigger), if pole flip happens and why/how, and strength via proximity.

I know, mostly already done things, but I understand better if I do it w/ my hands.

http://surphzup.com/gpage5.html

Quote from: g4macdad on July 20, 2008, 08:39:56 PM
Why are we watching videos of tin sheeting now? When was the last wheel progress video?

Archer Quinn is unable to address his cognitive dissonance. His perpetual motion machines (three at last count based on his claims) don't work and can never work, so he keeps moving on to new things in order to avoid the obvious. By now that must be clear to everyone with more than a couple of brain cells.

At least the cold fusion and bubble fusion claims were scientifically interesting. All this mechanical PMM nonsense was old hat hundreds of years ago!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_perpetual_motion_machines