Building on the Calloway V Gate principle.

[panoascape]

Yep, that's what I'm talking about.

You can even grind down the ends of the wire, at the top of the V to help reduce the gate even more.

The trick is where to end the small part of the V. Does it loop around inside itself? If so, how far? How much added force will this help to pass the gate? Or, do we have multiple V's inset inside of each other amplifying the pull force through the multipe spaced gates?

Something to try.

rw

[rice]

what if you were to block the gate or weaken it by placing a piece of flat 1/8 or 1/4 steel on it and leave it there?

[mikem33]

I used some Neodymium 3/4" X 1/4" N42 wafer shaped magnets on Plexiglas. I put one on top and on the bottom to hold them in place and left the thin plastic protective covering on the Plexiglas so I could quickly move the magnets to almost any configuration in a couple of minutes and there was enough friction to keep them from collapsing together.

Here is what I found.  The movement of a "cart" over the magnets regardless of a "V" or parallel formation was actually accomplished via a "slingshot" effect.  It was the initial energy by holding the "cart" far enough off the end so that when it was let go that propelled it the end of the run. If you look at any of the experiments you'll see they only go a couple or three cycles.  That is all they will go.  As you noticed even with your wheel it requires you hand motion to obtain movement.  If you just put your stator in place while you held the wheel and then let go you would obtain very little movement. So it requires movement up and down because the wheel simply sticks and causes little or no rotation unless there is an up an down (in and out - left to right, whatever) movement.

[Rapadura]

A cam may substitute any hand motion...

[Judges]

Yes,,I thought for months after the Marlow incident,,,some one would provide a cam,,easy to see,hard to design.
j.