Mechanically reverse polarity of magnets in motor idea (images)

[Magnavox]

Hello, this is my first venture into this.  I was thinking about how a magnetic motor could work, so I looked up how a DC motor works.  I though what about mechanically reversing the orientation, and therefore polarity, of magnets in a motor to act like a DC motor's electromagnets.  I have this so far, it is rough.  What is missing is how to lock the magnets in place once they make their reversal, I have a few ideas in mind. 

It works like this: as the pulling and pushing magnets do their thing against the main magnets (large red & green) they drive the magnet in between them into the gear teeth (purple).  The rotation gears (blue & pink) engage and flip the magnet 180 degrees.  This is where the lock system would disengage then re-engage to prevent the magnet from flipping back around (it would need to be timed very well).  I use a 2-1 reduction on the rotation gears because I figure the pulling and pushing force of the magnet being rotated would pretty well equal the pulling and pushing force of the magnets on either side of it, so this should reduce that force by 50%.  I'm not an engineer, physicist or scientist so I do not know whether this feature will work or be necessary, or for that matter whether the entire idea has any hope of working. 

What do you think?

[Magnavox]

Two months and no replies, is my idea that bad? 

[gotoluc]

Not a bad idea!... just 99.9% of the magnet motors don't work no matter how good the idea is or how cool it looks.

The only way to know is to build it! ... then you'll understand why no one is jumping up to build it.

If I were you I would start with a more simple experiment which looks promising compared to the stuff I've seen over the years

http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/20239-magnet-motor-revelation.html

Hope this helps and thanks for sharing

Luc

[Magluvin]

Interesting design.  I got into this some years back. Hope to some day get back into it with some better ways to go about it that I have thought of over the years.

http://overunity.com/9103/magluvins-magnet-motor-mmm-being-released-for-open-source-developement/msg239046/#msg239046

Mags

[gotoluc]

Hey Mags, is that a pole flipping stator magnet motor?

Looks cool

Luc