Roll on the 20th June

[The Eskimo Quinn]

how do you add a signature cant find it? Am going to put this as a sig, for all the hecklers and for builders to remember when they doubt themselves.

SIG:Response to remarks of this being impossible.

Actually an object that does work is using energy to do it, two ring magnets sitting on a pole one floating above the other is work performed, thus there is energy, magnets are batteries of stored magnetic energy, so it is not energy from nothing and is not a breach of the laws of physics, finding ways to make magnets produce work other than levitation is simply mechanics, no tricks. if this guy says it runs, maybe it does, but there is no hocus pocus when we see magnets float over each other. this is just mechanics, the physics component is getting the right mechanics. A weather vane floating on a magnet on a pole is a mechanical use of the energy and additionally a frictionless bearing.

[Airstriker]

I think if we all just say yes airstriker, nothing to see here, move along,  then he won't have any reason to post here again, after all unless your objective is to harrass people into not building because you think it can't be done, or you don't want it to be done, then you have no reason to be on this thread.

yes airstriker you are the one who is correct and we are all wrong, stupid crazy, whatever suits you best, you have said it we agree, so that leaves not one thing left for you to say or post other than goodbye to the crazy people.

there is nothing to see here,      move along

1. Yeah, I have nothing to do but harrass people here. Oh dear...
2. I said more than once that all videos posted here including Quinn's web site is gone. Nothing to look at.
3. bye bye this thread, as there is nothing to look at.
4. good luck

[Low-Q]

actually have been trying some of the wind turbines 2kw and under and they seem to have zero cogging effect and feel almost weightless to turn by hand, this will be my generator in my next build, I have checked for the cheapest and they are $450 quite cheap really for a windmill, (only 30 watts though) however if it run it easily larger turbines can be bought a retrofit afterwards. seems I may have the job i was going for, so hope to be back building by Xmas,  so with luck it wont take too much to turn the 2kw turbines, which cost about 2500, cheap really when you look at the cost of a 180 watt solar panel

Under no load it shouldn't take much energy to turn a turbine or generator. Try to load them...

Vidar

[mscoffman]

Smk0ky2;

My problem with acrylic plastic is that they are high insulators.
Meaning you have to cautious about Wimshurst static charges
developing (which can help, if you know what you are doing).
Also acrylic is semi-crystaline with respect to temperature.
So you have to keep incandescent lights away from them. If
you do it wrong, the plastic can warp and run as a IR heat
engine all by itself. These things would make a disk machine
suspect as receiving augmented energy or not working at
critical times, ala (supposedly) Steorn.

---

@Archer;

As far as the wind generator goes, Archer, You need to know for sure
how the generator works. Biggy wind-generators often use "synchronous
alternators" where you connect the generator directly to the AC power
grid and the input mechanical power causes the rotor to "overrun" the
50/60Hz. This causes a AC phase to lead which pumps power out directly
to the grid. But is sort of a dead end without the grid. As It doesn't have
it's own exciter. I remember the little separate exciter unit in that picture
of the engine generator you took apart for the previous project.

The other way is that the wind generator can charge a 12V battery.
The problem there is a standard alternator will need to be connected
to the battery to activate the field coils before you get any back
mechanical backforce resistance.

Finally, the kind you want is rare; a permanent magnet field alternator.
In this the regulation is difficult because the regulator has to throw
out any excess energy as heat. Some would have the load take
anything that is produced but a DC battery will not accept that for long.
Of course you wont get any mechanical backforce in that until you put
a resistive load on it. (like a battery being charged as a load)

--- So in any of the above cases -no cogging is the result of no
electrical load resistance. Of course, a LED or transistor radio will
not cause very much load but a solenoid coil would cause lots of
load. Most likely not Lenz backforce free.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[The Eskimo Quinn]

Actually, wind turbines are not subject to load, because no wind turbine in the commercial world, nor in the people with half a brain world, connect turbines to a load, they all run to capacitance or battery, the reason for this is simple, the amount of power fluctuates with the speed of the wind, no one in their right mind would connect a load directly to the turbine, however the power can be measure when turning and the load is calculated in simple using ohms law, watts divided by volts equals amps, this is of course fed into a controller and then to capacitor,grid or battery. even a cheap wind turbine would simply not turn short of a gale if it was subject to load cogging. Capacitance (controllers)is what prevents this.



<sub>SIGNATURE:Response to remarks of this being impossible.

Actually an object that does work is using energy to do it, two ring magnets sitting on a pole one floating above the other is work performed, thus there is energy, magnets are batteries of stored magnetic energy, so it is not energy from nothing and is not a breach of the laws of physics, finding ways to make magnets produce work other than levitation is simply mechanics, no tricks. if this guy says it runs, maybe it does, but there is no hocus pocus when we see magnets float over each other. this is just mechanics, the physics component is getting the right mechanics. A weather vane floating on a magnet on a pole is a mechanical use of the energy and additionally a frictionless bearing.</sub>