Magnetic imbalance wheel

[vikingdread]

No, I don't think friction is a problem here. The wheel is turning on a hub, the green shielding does not touch the wheel anywhere.

I think the problem might be a situation where magnets on the spokes get "caught" between the magnetic fields of the 2 repulsing magnets on the left.

Perhaps it works with just 1 repulsing magnet.

The trick should be this:

The force of the weight of the magnets on the right side of the wheel should be larger than the drag caused by the repulsing magnets on the left side...

[vikingdread]

Hi xnonix,

Thanks for the reply!

Will the magnets on the left eventually be trapped between the 2 repulsing magnets?

What if the design only had one repulsing magnet on the left?

The problem is directionallity of the flux.
when the magnet is aproaching then the fixed magnet is repelling it braking the wheel. The thing is to repel it in the right moment, when they are facing thenselves. That why I suggested a pulse electromagnet (But this is not OU).

I understand. So what if there were only one repelling magnet on the left and just a tiny hole in the shielding so that there's only repulsion when two magnets almost exactly face eachother?

[aparodox2003]

I've thought about this setup before as well, the problem i incured was that the magnents give off a mushroom shape repultion/attraction. The wheel stops rotating because of the resistance of the magnent, I havent tried sheilding with only a small whole but i imagine it would have the same effect and the wheel would go nowhere. The stationary magnent would push the one on the wheel away before it could push it far enough on the spoke so that the garavity on the wieghts on the other side of the wheel can pull it up. Basically you need pulsed intervals of magnetism. But if you find a way to get it to work i congratulate you.

[mapsrg]

This idea is the start of a journey...even mechanical linear motion along the spoke will not work....What if we have rotation instead? Imagine a large wheel with smaller wheels mounted around its circumference.the smaller wheels are made to rotate buy magnetic repulsion to give the same effect of imbalance using external fixed magnets.

[RebeLLz]

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