Smot - A New Approach

[Freezer]

Have you tried with just two balls?  I think we need to try and setup the magnets to ideally only allow one magnet in a attraction spot, of course way harder than just saying it.  I'm starting a track, and waiting for some balls, and will give it a try.  For something like a 6" ring track, all we need it to move is like 1 inch for perpetual motion, and let gravity do the rest.

[Freezer]

Anyone tried this guys device or even the mechanism which drives it?  I think I saw the video here before, but has anyone tried making something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7YB7eiOeQ

I tried to draw it up as I saw it, but the pivot points are probably wrong.  The magnet is pulled downward away from the incoming ball.  Seems like the rest of the energy is conserved by the pendulum.  I think the stuff in the middle is just decoration.  Theres 3 of these moving swinging setups.

[Pirate88179]

Very interesting device on the video!  It appeared to me that the ball was only hitting 2 of the 3 levers, at least it sounded that way.  It looked like when the ball approached the lever on the right it was already moving down below the track from it's pivot motion.

I found a comment on youtube particularly interesting.  They said that since this device depends on the rotation of the earth to function, and the earth will eventually stop rotating, therefore this is not perpetual motion.  I think that when the earth stops rotating, who cares? ha ha

Is this device not a closed loop SMOT?  And if not, why not?  It appears to me to be.

Bill

[zero]

It Should be continuous (or at least cycle a Lot more)
if you use only balls and no magnets to absorb
some of that force.    Have you tried it?

[Omnibus]

@Pirate88179,

Of course this device is a closed-loop SMOT. There's no doubt about it. So far, this is the closest demonstration of a working perpetuum mobile, continuously producing energy out of nothing, which I've seen personally (aside from the closed-loop SMOT here http://data.image.zabim.com/o-wa51V9glc9.jpg which definitively proves violation of CoE through discontinuous production of energy out of nothing ).

If one wants to be a devil's advocate, however, one would require a clear proof that said device isn't just a very efficient redistributor of an initially imparted energy. Unfortunately, Finsrud hasn't been cooperative so far in clarifying that point.