Finsrud's Perpetuum Mobile

[Low-Q]

I can also confirm that Finsrud is a genuine gentleman. I was litterally pushed and dragged around in his "world", while we were discussing energy, inventions, hobbies etc. I will visit the gallery again later to take more detailed pictures of the machine.

[hartiberlin]

I could see on one of Stefans last videos, that on of the fixed magnets did not move when the ball passed. Did you ask Finsrud about this, Stefan?

Vidar

Hi Vidar,
which video did you mean exactly ?

Only in the last 2 videos number 13 and 14,
Finsrud started the device and then it ran contineously.
In the first 12 videos the device was not really in sync,
so only before filming the last 2 movies he started it, by
rubbing the ball with a towel, so all dust came off and
rubbing the railroad track clean out of any dust and
then setting the pendulums into the right syncing motion
with his hands and giving the ball some kicks, so it rolled
in sync with the pendulums.

To the other question, I think if it would be built bigger,
you could surely use some coils around the magnets to
extract some changing magnet fields and have some
electrical output this way. But in this size machine
you will surely drag it down so the ball will come to a stop
probably.
He built and tweaked it for 12 years until he had got it going !


Regards, Stefan.

[Low-Q]

This is the video (13):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9XmRKR2S-o&feature=player_profilepage

Look at the closest magnet above the track. It clearly bounce when the steel ball pass by, but the one after that doesn't seem to do anything. The third magnet seems to bounce, as I could see the reflections in the steel changed when the ball passed this magnet. But the second magnet, I cannot confirm whether it bounces or not.

Vidar

[hartiberlin]

Hi Vidar,
I don´t know. I did not see it, when I was there.

Maybe just ask Finsrud, when you go back to him.
Maybe he changed something, when he added the modeltrain railroad track onto the
aluminium wheels ?

Regards, Stefan.

[Low-Q]

Hi Vidar,
I don´t know. I did not see it, when I was there.

Maybe just ask Finsrud, when you go back to him.
Maybe he changed something, when he added the modeltrain railroad track onto the
aluminium wheels ?

Regards, Stefan.

I will visit him some time again. All I know this far, is that the whole mechanism, after the mod. with the rails which increased hight on the track, is adjusted accordingly.

Btw.: To start the machine, did he push, and push the ball untill it got synced with the pendulums? How long took it before the machine ran by itself?

Vidar