A SQUARE MAGNETIC RAIL -- ROTOR 360 ROTATION

[Light]

If only colors could make it run :)…

Yes, speed or shield. Maybe longer track will do the trick…
But again, "strait section" has open ends - magnetic "stream"; loop closed - no gradient, no movement...

But this (attach) magnetic gyro seems spinning a little longer than without this stator; maybe because all field around is equal.

[nightlife]

Here is a video of the U shaped array I was talking about. It would work better if I had the magnets perfectly aligned and if the track was in better shape. I used 1/4 neo disc in sets of arrays of 4.disc per set. I do plan on doing more testing with this concept coupled with gravity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXZFtUS0URQ

[nightlife]

Hi Light and welcome to the madness.

Good job on your box and I look forward to seeing more of your work.

[nievesoliveras]

@all

Does anybody knows the whereabouts of a video that showed a washer rotaing in a magnetic field over an acrilic at great speeds?
It was on youtube, I watched it and was looking for it to post its link here as a contribution to the thread, but I could not find it again.
It is a circle of magnets like hamels, but instead of a magnet at the center, there was a steel washer. The circle of magnets was stationary and the washer was spinning at agreat speed on the center over an acrilic plate.

Jesus

[magnetman12003]

Here is a video of the U shaped array I was talking about. It would work better if I had the magnets perfectly aligned and if the track was in better shape. I used 1/4 neo disc in sets of arrays of 4.disc per set. I do plan on doing more testing with this concept coupled with gravity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXZFtUS0URQ

Hi Nightlife,

Awsome video, 

Thats proof that a U curve can be made that will allow a steel ball to roll around easily.

Did you use a steel strip insert on the tracks insides to keep the tracks U shape?   Can you draw out the magnet arrangement you used on the tracks U curve and post it?

I see you noted closing the loop stops action. No problem here either as this track is powerful enough to power a steel ball up a grade as I have found by experimenting.   So when the steel ball is close to the end of an inclined grade at some point the ball can fall through a hole in the tracks bottom to start its journey once more on the track below it.  -- No closed loop.

I am fresh out of block magnets right now but I do have about 2,000 ceramic 1 inch by 1/4 inch thick DISK magnets I might try.  I never thought disks would work.   Arranging them at 45 degree angles is going to be a horror story.

Tom