Roll on the 20th June

[The Eskimo Quinn]

Wow we must have all seriously been on drugs 2 years ago to have missed simply placing another magnet on the opposite end, reviewing designs for rebuilding the Mayernik to full operating capacity I noticed something we all missed, this video shows the self start acceleration and exit of the wall and was done by a third party not me, take a look at where the opposite end of the rotor is when the wall is broken by the end with the magnet, it is already past the start point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjwK2WeLzWQ&feature=related

explain how no one ever noticed that? to busy fighting over it completing a loop with one driver.

Get some of that into ya nervous system British Petroleum

PS: having note for the Batmen vid (cleaner than my flat track vids) it also dawned on me you don't even need to go 360 degrees or run this mythical loop around a flat track like the try with smots, because unlike all other smots we know with contest by any builder the mayernik can climb with weight attached almost as heavy as the magnets in the form of those large bearings as wheels, now take a look at the batman vid as noted on my site, now put two facing each other on a 30 degree slope, we only need the driver to run up each side that's it? you see what we forgot was we do not need to go around a track, a perspex slide on the top of a see saw with a driver on each end, simply make the slider rod, 5 to 1, eg 100mm left on one side and 500mm on the other, we know the driver can push the slide and other driver up 30 degree to the end to then fall to  the mayernik below, with now 5 to 1 leverage, it is most definitely dropping fast, and lands with the driver at the start of the opposite mayernik which simply repeats the process, we do not need a loop at all. we all know the driver can do this easily, we know there is no wall, and any attraction to the track is killed by the 5 to 1 leverage of the high driver weight, having built the loop, i know that 2 to one at 12 o'clock will break the hold, we all know this because when we tried to add too many weights to break the wall it would drop off the top of the loop, still think the rotor is a better option, but the see saw is an easy build as well.

may be tempted to build one of these first after I am settled in my new job. though it would seem several people already have these built just needing an extra driver.

[sm0ky2]

@ archer

adding another magnet to the opposite end will change the entire array. there would be a second wall to break.
put your finger on the screen where the rod starts, and watch as it goes around. it never makes a complete circle. it comes close, but the wall prevents it from going all the way around.

with a second magnet, this will happen 180-degrees earlier.

[The Eskimo Quinn]

no there is no wall at the bottom there are no magnets there, it just has no more momentum, it has sufficient drive to break the wall at 3 oclock, but the breaking of the wall is what kills that last bit of momentum, you need to build one to see what mayernik builders know, the start of the array is like suction and the exit like a wall, but once you are free of the last magnet there is nothing, same as the roller in mine, the left hand side sucks the driver in even at a distance, the reason you cannot extend the ring on the left to make a more complete circle is simple, the fields of the array link and it becomes close to a single ring magnet which is why you need the gap, or it is simply trying to pull the driver equally in both directions.

[sm0ky2]

i dont know if bill still has his set-up,
but i think you are as well versed in building a mayernick array as anyone else.
all i can say is put another magnet on there and give it a go.

[The Eskimo Quinn]

i dont know if bill still has his set-up,
but i think you are as well versed in building a mayernick array as anyone else.
all i can say is put another magnet on there and give it a go.

I still have all the magnets, and as soon as i finish my exams in 2 weeks I will have a quick look at something that can be filmed, whatever the outcome it seems I may have a private funded design build for a hydro scheme coming up, not sure how it would fit into my new job free hours wise, but definately looking at it, after all still have yet to sign an employment agreement, he who has the most bucks wins )