LaFonte Group Pseudo Solid Magnet Motor OU test, 3 videos on Youtube

[arringtj]

Wouldn't it help if the rod was non magnetic?
Brass? Maybe Teflon?  =)

Each rotor piece could be fixed instead of sliding but still rotate about the rod.
Fixed on ring rotor elements would push the whole rotor ring instead of sliding on rod.
The rear of each could have a tiny "roller" that could push off of a helical inside the stator.
Guides could be arranged on Stator to allow only 1 direction of "flip".

Multiple Stators of course 90 degrees orientation from adjacent as previously drawn by Butch.

Just some ideas from an ugly sketch yesterday.
Keep it up! Great work.

Best regards,
Jeff

[Butch LaFonte]

Wouldn't it help if the rod was non magnetic?
Brass? Maybe Teflon?  =)

Each rotor piece could be fixed instead of sliding but still rotate about the rod.
Fixed on ring rotor elements would push the whole rotor ring instead of sliding on rod.
The rear of each could have a tiny "roller" that could push off of a helical inside the stator.
Guides could be arranged on Stator to allow only 1 direction of "flip".

Multiple Stators of course 90 degrees orientation from adjacent as previously drawn by Butch.

Just some ideas from an ugly sketch yesterday.
Keep it up! Great work.

Best regards,
Jeff

Jeff,
I agree that sliding the rod is better than sliding the rotors. I'm looking for small locking collars on the web today to out on each end of the rotor assembly. I just noticed something else, the rod will need a very thin washer placed on it between the two rotor assemblies so that the two rotors will not touch when rotating into the Pseudo Solid position.
I feel the rod needs to stay ferromagnetic so that there will not be a nonmagnetic gap half way through the rotor. Also the shaft flexes easy and I just measured my shaft and it is .150 not .125 and I wonder if we should spec the rod to be very hard, high tensile strength steel to keep it from flexing.
Would you help me search the web to also see if the are any miniature roller bearings that the rod could slide on? The movement needs to be as free and smooth as possible so we can detect any cogging when moving into the stator area with the interlocks open.
Great idea on the rod moving with the rotors.
Thanks,
Butch

[Butch LaFonte]

Notice that when the interlocks are open and entering the stator magnetic field that every surface that is being pulled in has a surface of the same area that is being pulled back out. This keeps the movement cog free.
Then when the interlocks are allowed to rotate and line up with the field lines that work can be done. The first step in the sequence is 90 degrees to the field and the second is a rotation around the center line that the first step moved along. The interlocking allows the two rotors to become a Pseudo Solid and the field for all practical applications sees the rotor as a solid continuous piece of metal and allows it to move out of the field virtually cog free. One thing to consider here. The flux density in the stator core changes during the rotors interlocking and placement of coils on the stator core will react to this change and produce a voltage/current.
Thanks,
Butch LaFonte

[arringtj]

Butch:

Here is a link to where I have bought many bearings. They have lots of choices. The smallest Linear bearing is 8mm and that is what I bought for the 5 Magnetic pistons in my mag motor. You could use some of their micro slot car bearings on 4 sides of the steel rod, perhaps.

http://www.vxb.com/

Thanks,
Jeff

[arringtj]

Butch:Actually, you could use 8mm tube that has i.d. of 1/8th inch or drill this size hole in solid brass rod.
Put one 8mm brass rod on each end of steel rod. Buy (2) 8mm linear bearings and put on each end. Lube with 3 in 1 oil and WOW ! These linears slide fast and easy! See photo of old linear mag design...