Working Magnetic Motor on you tube??

[whetherman]

Mr Entropy on Steorn Forum makes an important point.

"After playing around with my son's magnetics set, it looks to me like there's a big potential hill of repulsion
you have to push through to get the rolling magnet into the starting position where it starts to attract."

I rather assumed that CLaNZeR would have noticed this but maybe not.

If the gate array field is terminated by hills at each end then there is still the possibility of motion in a large circular array. But I would like to see a long linear array first since this might well show breakdown.

Clanzer's video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4kq1oNMtws shows that the repulsion is overcome in going from one array to the next, at least on a flat surface.

If the roller exiting array 1 is made to slow down by a respectable amount, by going up a slope for example, and it is still able to enter array 2, then I don't see what there is to stop someone from constructing a circle of arrays to close the loop, or from just conveying the roller down a slope back to the first array.

With my test through 2 gates, the roller bar would sometimes slow down (very noticeably) and look like it wasn't going to make it to the 2nd array, but then it speeds up and gets pulled through. 

[couldbe]

With my test through 2 gates, the roller bar would sometimes slow down (very noticeably) and look like it wasn't going to make it to the 2nd array, but then it speeds up and gets pulled through. 

Have you tried putting the gates on an incline? If you can get the roller to go through the second gate so it is higher than its starting point, you can tell Randi to pay you the million $

[plengo]

I thought this guys has some interesting ideias about magnetic motors. Watch all 5 videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/anandaadhar

Fausto.

[whetherman]

With my test through 2 gates, the roller bar would sometimes slow down (very noticeably) and look like it wasn't going to make it to the 2nd array, but then it speeds up and gets pulled through. 

Have you tried putting the gates on an incline? If you can get the roller to go through the second gate so it is higher than its starting point, you can tell Randi to pay you the million $

Is the fight against gravity / inertia not won when the behaviour I described happens in both directions?  The table can't be perfectly level.

[sm0ky2]

With my test through 2 gates, the roller bar would sometimes slow down (very noticeably) and look like it wasn't going to make it to the 2nd array, but then it speeds up and gets pulled through. 

Have you tried putting the gates on an incline? If you can get the roller to go through the second gate so it is higher than its starting point, you can tell Randi to pay you the million $

Is the fight against gravity / inertia not won when the behaviour I described happens in both directions?  The table can't be perfectly level.

a series of 2-3 or more Tri-Force gates can easily take on an incline of 35 degrees. Thats about as steep as i can get it to go, and if i had more of these magnets/steel balls im sure i could make it go up a good distance (currently 3 inches up a ramp). it shows no sign of slowing. i cant get i to roll perfectly back down through the gates, it seems to always turn and stick the sides on the way back down unless i line it up again.