Dual Piston Device with Permanent Magnets

[psychopath]

I think the only flaw is that it takes more energy for the shield to move away from the magnets than move into them, since both magnets are closer to the shield when it is leaving.

If you can make it so the energy required to move away from the magnets is the same as moving towards them, then you might have a perpetual motion device. But the movement of the shield needs to somehow be connected to the movement of the magnets, so the shield movements are overall cancelled out. Then it should work!

[eavogels]

Any more work done here?

Don't forget to use a heavy flywheel to store the energy around the cycle.

Yes, I did some more work now and created Version 2 of the Dual Piston Device.
All sliding bearings are replaced with rotating parts and a heavy flywheel is added.
The weak point of version 1 was all the friction that build up by the sliders.
What still has to be solved is that the plexiglass wheel, with the half moon shaped steel plate in it, must make a bigger 'back and forward'-swing the the 180 degrees it is doing now.

Eric

[eavogels]

I added a movie to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jFT1Ze6igI

Eric

[eavogels]

Here is the problem/question in a drawing.
I need to move the lever quickly 2 times, during one rotation of the flywheel. When a point on the flywheel i at the bottom, the level has to come up, and when the point is at the top, the lever needs to go down.

The video that was model for the drawing is here again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jFT1Ze6igI

Eric

[eavogels]

It's not pretty, but it's an idea of how it can be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAabZ5yq0x0

Eric.