A new magnetmotor idea for you to evaluate.

[Low-Q]

Hi,


Look at the attached image. This is essentially two "wheels" that is fixed in an angle of +/- 10°. with two chains (It can be bicycle chains) that is looped around four pulleys each.
When we turn the wheels, B gets narrower and D gets wider. The narrowest part is at position C. The widest part is at position A.
Position A has more ferromagnetic mass than C. So A is more attracted to the magnet than C.
As A turns clockwise towards position C the ferromagnetic mass decrease.
So the operation is simple. A chain have a constant length. Chain A-C is just as long as chain B-D. As one side widens, the other side gets narrower to keep the chain in tension all the time.
This will reduce ferromagnetic mass, close to the magnet, as the chain gets narrower. This will result in a greater magnetic attraction from one side of the wheel.
What do you think? What did I miss out?


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[Low-Q]

Some confusions on A,B,C and D. It should be corrected in the first post now.


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[shylo]

Not sure I understand, but wherever the mass of attraction changes from less
to more will be the balance point, It will just come to rest.
IMO artv

[Low-Q]

As the vertical part of the chain gets shorter as it approach the magnet, the chain also moves across the wheels diameter, away from the magnet.
This would probably be the only possible reason why this design won't work. I'm however not shure if this part of the chain (across the diameter) will be much attracted to the magnet, or if the magnet some how wants to extend the vertical chain, which would force the chains to go the other direction.
I would assume that the magnetic field prefer the vertical chain. Since it is locked by the fixed wheels and pulleys.


We'll see. I'll order som thin iron chain from ebay.


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[Low-Q]

Not sure I understand, but wherever the mass of attraction changes from less
to more will be the balance point, It will just come to rest.
IMO artv

Most probably. I first visualized this wheel as a gravitywheel where the widest part was on one side, but mass is displaced upwards all the time while the wheel turns, and that will balance the whole system. So I thought maybe magnetism would be different. Probably not. We'll see. The experiment is very easy to do. It's worth a shot🙂


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