Howard Johnson Replication Tube Claim

[PaulLowrance]

I think he plans on shooting more video this evening to upload to YouTube.  One of those will be showing the device running on a glass table.

He's considering the possibility of having someone come in to verify this as a witness.

Now that's good news!

PL

[Omnibus]

sterlinga, I don't want to start another war here but I must note that your statement: "as in energy coming from nowhere; the energy is coming from somewhere" is unfounded if you mean that there is some preexisting energy reservoir which is being tapped to turn the motor. There is not a shred of evidence to support that.

On the contrary, there is all the evidence, and it has been proven beyond doubt, that in these machines energy which turns the rotor does not come from a pre-existing energy reservoir. Here's how it works: Proper construction of the motor allows for the magnetic force to induce displacement. Pre-existing magnetic force is not energy, neither is the displacement alone.
Force over distance is. No pre-existing energy reservoir and yet there's energy which drives the rotor.

[corona]

Ok, this one has got my interest (been a while since I built a magnet motor design). Now the most annoying this here is wading through pages and pages of people reiterating their belief he's a fraud. Could all you people just find something else to investigage, because to you this is a dead issue. Maybe it's a fraud any maybe it's not, either way anyone building a replication will learn a bit more about magnetic interactions regardless as they build, because it's all experience. And everyone making demands on what mylow should and shouldn't demonstrate - back off, it's not like he's built this to purely show off, if he's been working on these kinds of things for years I'm sure he's got his own personal reasons for wanting to do this, and will want to build more and try more new things, rather than sit around proving it works to everyone else. Let him do his thing, and have patience.

Now onto the fun stuff. Obviously engineering style measurement practices aren't mylow's forte, which I can't complain about. All to many engineers are so stiff an unimaginative that they would never try something like this (I like to think of myself as an artistic engineer).
I'm already about half way through drawing a scale model of his unit in mech desktop based on the photos, and the rough dimensions we've been given should help me make it more accurate overall. We really can't hope to accurately replicate it yet, as mylow said the spacing of the magets is critical, which I would believe, but the measurements are pretty sketchy (just under 1/4"?). So I'll try to finish a design I'm confidant is accurate to his model, and then work from there.

And another thing to remember is the aluminium probably plays a key role. It is far far from non-magnetic, is it strongly paramagnetic. Have you tried dropping a magnet down a hollow aluminium tube - it's freaky. Basically aluminium acts as a magnetic damper, it'll kind of oppose any moving magnetic field. This would complicate the magnetic fields around the stator with the base moving under it, as well as the aluminium strip with the moving c magnets under it. Also, these would have to be included in a femm model for it to be accurate (if anyone wanted to belive femm anyway, which I don't personally).

Anyway, I'll work on my design some more during lunch break.

Andrew

[Low-Q]

Something that has crossed my mind is how Howard was able to to get those magnets with small enough tolerances, so his perfectly calculated shapes and orders of the magnets made this motor working. So either there isn't that hard to replicate if there is room for tolerances, or it is almost impossible to replicate. What are the odds for the magnets to be within maybe +/- 0,1% tolerance? Most magnets, at least back then, couldn't have that small tolerances. So lucky for us, it shouldn't be that hard to replicate something close to Howards design AND make it work.

Vidar

[Reiyuki]

I'd like to thank Mylow for his persistent work and hopes things don't get too crazy with questions/demands.

Sterling, thanks for such quick and quantitative work in bringing this forward.  From experiment to video to tests and measurements in a matter of days, this experiment is moving much faster than the rest.

Cheers, mates, keep up the good work.  Here's hoping for a replication