This magnet motor idea should be easy to build and test

[Low-Q]

A while ago I did a test with a rod controlled rotormagnet, and posted a video about how and why magnet motors cannot work. As a control rod, I used a short one that was acivated very close to the magnet, which resulted in a magnet motor demonstration that did not work (As already suspected). Short distance influence might increase counter torque unnecessarily much, so I guess a longer control rod further from the rotor might reduce counter torque. I guess not, but need to test in this particular motor.


Now, I want to print out some parts, and build a new motor that is based on this principle, but instead of using a short control rod, I want to use a long one that is put through a stationary hole far away from the rotor.


What this control rod is all about, is shown in this video as a white rod that is connected to a rotormagnet which is allowed to turn around inside the rotor: https://youtu.be/7ojxtlM9D04


I suspect that the outcome is negative, but I need to be sure - mostly to learn even more in detail how magnetism works.
Look at the video, and comment your thoughts or questions if anything is unclear.


Vidar

[MagnaProp]

Hi. I like the idea but don't think it can power my spaceships.

Green arrow looks like it's the point of most attraction, so it won't want to move CCW anymore.

The orange arrow looks like a point of resistance. The blue part of the rotor and stator won't want to get any closer than that, preventing the rotor from moving CCW anymore.

[Low-Q]

Hi. I like the idea but don't think it can power my spaceships.

Green arrow looks like it's the point of most attraction, so it won't want to move CCW anymore.

The orange arrow looks like a point of resistance. The blue part of the rotor and stator won't want to get any closer than that, preventing the rotor from moving CCW anymore.

Interesting. What I found, is that the magnetic field must be parallell (or in the vicinity of parallell) to the field of another magnet in order to achieve attraction or repulsion. What I mean is, if you have two very long magnets, lets say 1 meter by 1x1cm, that is polarized through thickness, and align these magnets 90° on eachother like a cross, and put them together, you will have an impact area that is 1x1cm^2, but the attraction or repulsion force is almost not there. However, if you put two 1x1x1cm cube magnets next to eachother, the same impact area, they attract or repel very well. that is because all the magnetic lines are parallell to eachother.


As the rotor magnet approach 90° rotation, the field around the rotor magnet is 90° on the field from the stator magnet. So the forces between those fields are weak. However, at 0°, right at the polarity swap in the stator magnet, the magnetic lines are parallell to the rotor magnet, and have great influence.


I can agree with you, that the rotor magnet could stop there, and not go further, but rather go further than backwards. Not 100% sure if the torque between 45° prior to and after the initial point (90° in total. see picture) builds up enough momentum to overcome the equilibrium as you pointed out, and enough to pushi it into the next torque phase


Vidar.

[Low-Q]

I have decided to build this, but not using a rod to controll the magnets orientation.
Like a wrench on wheel bolts, the rod will cause countertorque to the wheel, because the magnet want to turn the same way as the whole wheel. So I want to make a system that does not do this.
I will use slides that runs on parallell tracks which can move i both X and Y axis. When fasten on the magnet, the sledge will follow the magnet around while keeping the magnetic orientation correct.
This way, the control does not provide torque around the magnets own axis. I think.
The stator magnet will "feel" a torque in the opposite direction no matter where the rotor magnet is, so there must be a reaction force that push the rotor magnet around too.
That is what the simulations shows.


Vidar.

[MagnaProp]

Not sure I fully understand the cross analogy. If the end are meters apart but the two can still come together at the center, it sounds like that might be due to the distance instead of flux not being parallel.

I'm glad you are building your design. There is much to be learned about magnetism that I don't think we yet know.