Mervace Working Magnetic motor using induction feedback

[legendre]

It should be safe to say that the wire is solid-core; I don't know how you'd get stranded wire of that gauge to hold its form so well, against gravity. If stranded, they are relatively large strands.

The caps are connected with the negative leads to black, and positive leads to red in both cases.

[allcanadian]

That twisted wire baffles me
If it can't induce voltage why have it there, it must be what drives this thing, not an input but an output.

[Omnibus]

@allcanadian,

Indeed, strange wire. Some sort of a cap. Notice how the rotor moved upwards at the 7th second when he was shorting it.

[Tinhead]

Sorry, stupid question. Haven't been able to read all the messages, so maybe it has been answered before.
( looks like overunity.com doesn't like New Zealand *grin*)

Those 2 wires, the red and black one. By the look of it they are connected to the big cap.
Situation 1 - they are connected/closed at the top. In that case you have a simple coil/capacitor arrangement. Question there, what is the resonance frequency of it.
Situation 2 - they are not connected. In that case the 2 parallel wires would act ... like another capacitor (ok, a very bad one). More interesting, it would be a 'twisted' capacitor.

Would that make sense? First impression - NO - but I remember have seen a webpage where they did exactly this. They affected capacitors with moving magnets. Because of the twist the magnet is not following the wire in a parallel motion, it is crossing it under an angle.

Does anyone remember who did those experiments? Stefan, you ever tried this, connecting two twisted wires to a capacitor and then move a magnet along them? On the webpage they were trying to create a 'no drag' generator.

Cheers,
Rainer

[legendre]

Ok, out on a limb re: the coil/switch:

Modern microwave ovens use a mains voltage relay to control magnetron power, by switching on & off the primary current to the high-voltage transformer. A bit of research tells me that some older microwave ovens used a high-voltage reed relay (solenoid)  to actually switch the high-voltage side, as a means to control the power to the magnetron. I believe this is the device in question. The switch would have required a set of NO contacts, but this is not to say that a set of NC contacts were not available - standard parts, you know.

Problem is, all high voltage relays require at least three, if not four terminals - two for control, two for switching. There is of course the possibility that they share a common return, but not very likely - it would be desirable to isolate the HV and primary sides as well as possible.

The inventor uses the phrase "had a reed switch inside of it" - now, this may just be a loose use of speech, but one might take it to mean that the switch is no longer present. This is supported by the fact that there are only two terminals in use on the coil.

So, I conclude that either the reed switch has been wired in series, as we have theorized, or it has simply been eliminated entirely. The rhythmic sound in the video seems to be a washing machine, running in the background.. this is a domestic setting, after all. Also, we cannot be sure that there is perfect a/v sync in the video itself.

Ok, I've had it with this damn thing until this evening