Smot - A New Approach

[FreeEnergy]

this also escapes the sticky spot.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xMb0OqK6gx8

[crazyman]

This also escapes the ?sticky spot?.
A absolutely brilliant example of a closed loop SMOT.
I estimate the RPM to be about  60 per minute.
You can clearly see the ball go from A-B-C-A.
Clever use of ?magnetic shielding?  allows this device to work.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pmsu9NbLxGk

All kidding aside, why didn?t this work.

burk,

this also escapes the stick spot.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xMb0OqK6gx8

[hartiberlin]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pmsu9NbLxGk

All kidding aside, why didn?t this work.

It is just not a SMOT !
Different principle with a very sticky spot at the end.
Much harder to overcome than in a SMOT !

[billmehess]

Using the tube is really no problem. Air in the tube is not at all a factor the ball moves smothly and quickly from the drop through the tube to the smot and up the ramp very efficiently.
I have built many smots and have never had a problem rolling the ball of the end. The challenge is that when the smot is raised to the angle I need it to be so that the ramp can come into play its difficult to get the ball to drop over the end. This is because the magnets have to be very strong to run the ball to the top.
Don't quite understand the iron particle concept. Is this to change the flux to make the magnets not quite as strong? In that case I could use weaker magnets at the top or move them a little further apart.
When I try this the ball simply stops a little lower on the ramp.
Because I have such great speed with ball projecting up the ramp I am going to try directing the ball though a hole about 2/3 up the ramp.
The ball will not drop on its one so again the key will to "direct" it via a tube. I simply need to clear the magnets by such a small amount and this thing is a runner.
I'll let you all know whats happening.
Bill

[billmehess]

This is interesting, I just closed up my shop for the night but I noticed something I had not seen before. The ball of a regular smot
configuration runs on the two top rails of the uchannel. The ball I am using in my configuration runs inside the uchannel. I have notice that
the speed is extremely fast up the smot, faster than what would be expected. Looking down the channel when the ball was projected up I noticed that the ball is not riding on the bottom but actually suspended about 2mm high. It may touch a side in the less than 1 sec it takes to reach the end but generally it is suspended. When stopped at the end it remains suspended against one of the sides of the uchannel.
Moving the magnets on each side will also determine the relative height  of the ball. But for the moment with the magnets flush to the bottom the ball is levitated in motion. I wonder if I can use this to help escape the uchannel.
Maybe instead of trying to direct the ball downwards through a "trap door" maybe having it ramp up so that it literally flings itself away.
This could be caught in a funnel arrangement and via the tube directed back to the smot.
I'll try this tommorrow.
It's quite exciting to be this close!
Bill