Working SMOT ramp from Tom Ferko ?

[Jdo300]

Hi Tom,

Awesome progress you're making! My simulation bugged up before I could finish it up but I can say that it forecasted a non-working motor for the earlier track you made. However for this one, I think you are very very close to making this work. I say this because what you made is very similar to the research that Howard Johnson did with his magnet motor setups. In his book, Discovering Magnetism, and the new DVD that was just released on Tom Bearden's website they show how canceling the spins in the magnets can allow for unidirectional motion. Check out this page from the book:

On the DVD, they actually show a demo of Howard Johnson's linear track and he basically has the magnets setup like the diagram in the book. The kart that is on the track also has magnets setup just like the ones on the track so the kart is constantly pulled in one direction without any sticky spots.

God Bless,
Jason O

[magnetman12003]

Hi Jason,

Could you photograph and post the part of the page you illustrated in the Bearden book where it says "Here is a larger depiction Sho--" ?   Part of it is clipped out on the lower right side of the page you just posted.  It shows the direction of force fields around the outsides of each magnet.   I would like to see all of it in its entirety.

This should clear up a lot of things for everyone.  It makes a lot of sense to me at this point.       Tom

[Jdo300]

Here's some scans of the pages dealing with the gating principle:

[magnetman12003]

Hi All.

Based on the info Jason posted above I applied that to the stagger track design and came up with this modification which works a lot better.  Lucky I had not assembled the long track yet I am working on and still can use everything I had cut previously.

I have illustrated only one flux line radiating from each rod magnet "CORNER" showing the flux flow as per what Jason posted.

The important corners that provide "magnet work" POINT DIRECTLY INTO THE CHANNEL the ring magnet is traveling in.  Notice how the flux line directions in all cases flow with each other

I still dont know if the flux line eminating from the ring magnet as illustrated is correct but in any event this modification works a lot better than what was illustrated previously.   Open for comments.    Tom

[magnetman12003]

Here is a photo diagram of the stagger track I am putting together right now.

28 - two inch long rod magnets and one large heavy 6 inch diameter ring runner magnet. 

You can turn the entire track around and run the ring magnet the other way also.

If all works out ok it will be easy to make a circular version.     

Tom