Magnetic engine efficient accelerating magnet gate on youtube

[TechStuf]

How many ways are there to coax a permanent magnet into acting much the same as a LF AC electromagnet for the purpose of initiating induction? 


Is the simple principle being demonstrated here:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9bsRfHd-Fo


Worthy to help pry the gate open?



TS

[Low-Q]

After reviewing the video again,
it surely looks like he is not using much force to push the
stick into the hole and gets much more energy ( force x flydistance)
out of the gate by accelerating the stick with the ball magnet.

So it seems this magnet gate is really NOT a spring like conservative
system but an actual accelerator delivering more energy than put in.

It also doesn't requires much energy to accelerate that lightweight magnet and wood stick into that speed. I will be convinced if this experiment coud repeat itself with a row of several gates. But I think the magnet and the wood stick is too light to have enough kinetic energy to enter the next gate.

Vidar

[Pirate88179]

Vidar:

I like your idea.  A second set-up could be place such that the projectile leaves the first, and maybe or maybe not, overcomes the resistance to entering the first gate of the second device.  This would answer all the questions right there.  I agree that the wood projectile may not have enough mass to do the job.  It seems to me that the mass of the projectile should be as high as possible without losing much velocity.  Someone would have to chart this out by experiments.  I am sure there is a number specific to a given set-up that provides the ultimate in mass vs velocity.  Then, if your test is run and it doesn't work, that's the best that can be done.  If it does work, heck, someone might be able to close the loop.

Bill

[noncents]

I think my gate videos are a little more interesting. It seems as if the magnet shoots prior to being 50% pushed into the gate. The neo's seem to shoot when the trailing edge of the shooting magnet is perpendicular to the face of the gate or even prior. I'd have to do some more videos to figure this out. I stopped looking at this awhile ago. 
http://s164.photobucket.com/albums/u18/johnriven/?action=view&current=JohnsonShoot2.flv
http://s164.photobucket.com/albums/u18/johnriven/?action=view&current=9d8238f0.flv
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Also, to counter the "levitating" magnet in a tube claim,  It's not levitating. It's trying to escape the field as it only knows how. It's trying to twist and orient itself in line with the field lines. Without the tube it would just flip and get stuck to the ring magnet. Or maybe fly off.
Here's my version of a washer levitating.
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u18/johnriven/J2R2WasherHover.jpg
The different stacks are alternately oriented. I was able to conduct the experiment with the tube and without. The washer(or magnet) wants to move towards one or the other stacks but is constrained from doing so by the tube. Try it with a magnet that's smaller than the inner diameter of the tube, it will simply rotate. It isn't levitating, it's pinned to the side of the tube by friction while being repelled/attracted.
Good luck getting the hitch working without the tube. I don't think it's possible, but hey, never say never.
noncents 

[4Tesla]

I found more information on this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1IJ8v3Grw4).
If you leave the mouse over the video the attached contact info will pop-up.

Here is a link to the homepage:
http://ntpo.com/invention/invention2/39.shtml

There is a link for English translation, but the English version has a few images missing.
I have attached two images from the homepage.

Jason