Working Magnetic Motor on you tube??

[robbie47]

Check the shadow of the main rotor in @Al's video. the rotor is not in the exact centre. You can compare the shadow distance with the static bits around the outside of the main rotor.

Edit. also looking at the shadow of the centre of the main rotor in the strobed video the same effect can be seen, however would perfer it if someone with better picture analysis would confirm this observation.

How about vertical wobble (variation in hight)?

[RunningBare]

Fingers crossed guys and gals


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Turbinator wrote:

Without going into too much detail, I had a sustained rotor yesterday evening while fooling around around with the stators; The stators were not rotating but oscillating slightly (and with a rod mag attached to each stator - like i said i was tinkering!), the rotor was hand spooled and left to run down while i was doing something else..... strangely it held at around 300rpm. I will investigate further and keep a camera handy.

[dean_mcgowan]

I suppose Turbo has just as much right to infer things as Al does .. <pours another green tea blend gets the yummy white honey out and reclines to watch the circus unfold>

[hydrocontrol]

Wow.  I had tried something like that with my set about a week ago except that I used two small rod magnets attached to the stator so it looked like  --O-- . I only did it to one stator. I did notice it pulsed the rotor and seems to improve slow down times but I could not get it to do anything else but to wind down at which point one or the other outer stator arms would stick to a rotor magnet. Guess I will have to go back and play with one arm setup..

Fingers crossed guys and gals

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Turbinator wrote:

Without going into too much detail, I had a sustained rotor yesterday evening while fooling around around with the stators; The stators were not rotating but oscillating slightly (and with a rod mag attached to each stator - like i said i was tinkering!), the rotor was hand spooled and left to run down while i was doing something else..... strangely it held at around 300rpm. I will investigate further and keep a camera handy.

[Yadaraf]

Fingers crossed guys and gals


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Turbinator wrote:

Without going into too much detail, I had a sustained rotor yesterday evening while fooling around around with the stators; The stators were not rotating but oscillating slightly (and with a rod mag attached to each stator - like i said i was tinkering!), the rotor was hand spooled and left to run down while i was doing something else..... strangely it held at around 300rpm. I will investigate further and keep a camera handy.

RE: Similarity between turbinator's oscillation and the Lego device(?)

Not to clutter this thread up, but if the Lego device is to be believed, then its rubber bands might be contributing to a similar oscillation phenomenon as the spinning rotor mags pass by the fixed stator mags -- hunting/oscillating during passage due to the elasticity in the bands, but never really "locking in."

In any event, turbinator's device is starting to look like a Lego-WhipMag hybrid. 

Cheers,

Yada ..
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