A better ramp for a SMOT or TOMI track...

[loop888]

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just found this webpage today      http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/smotidx.htm   
a lot of very interesting things there...

came here to post about it and found this thread!!, very mystical cool 

Notice the configuration of the magnets in this set-up.

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This is Howard Johnson (1938)

Very similar to the Tri-Force experiments.

Here is my replication using "Geo-Mags".

http://youtube.com/watch?v=o6F9I5OiSTE

working with that launcher concept, is possible to put more power and accelerate the launched element over an ascending ramp to make it return to the start point following a gravity powered path? 

saludos!! =D

[sdanielmsev]

  Dear Mr. Stefan:
    I ask  questions only when I do not know the answer. My question; can this work uphill?

[Low-Q]

I cannot see how this will work in a closed loop. Closing the lop is easy. So make a video of it when you have one working device

Vidar

[mangyhyena]

hartiberlin, if you used a ferris wheel setup with those bar magnets you used to roll down the track, in the place where seats would normally be on a ferris wheel, so that the magnets dropped down into the track as the wheel rotated, do you believe you would have continuous rotation that wouldn't stop until either the magnets lost their magnetism or something broke on the "ferris wheel"?

Rereading that, I'm not sure I made myself understood.  I'm thinking of a vertical wheel with those bar magnets on it.  At the bottom of the wheel would be your track.  As the magnets on the wheel came down into the track beyond the sticking point, perhaps the track would propel the wheel.

Also, could that track be curved to follow the wheel for a portion of the wheel's rotation?

If you or anyone else understands what I'm trying to get across with those two paragraphs and can comment about the viability of this idea, please do.

What I'm looking for is a way to get a drum to continuously spin using only magnets.  Using that track as a stator in combination with set magnets on the drum might be something worth looking into.  The way I figure it is that the curve of the drum would be capable of putting the set pieces into the track at a particular place beyond a sticking point due to rotation bringing the set pieces up and into, or down and into, the track.

All right, I'm confusing myself now.  I'll stop.  Thanks for posting your work.

Thanks.

[mangyhyena]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah4rDjRDZd0

Someone want to tell me what the heck this guy has set up, please?  Even I can see that this one has a lot of potential.