Magnetic V Gate

[jsngeorge423]

Hi guys, I know this is not the right topic but I cannot for the life of me find a magnetic section?

I enjoy the idea of idea of free energy and as an Engineer love to sketch designs for machines that all of my education tells me cannot work. I designed this device recently and uses a pair of magnetic V gates to propel the rotor and a pair of cams and followers to jump the "sticky spot" and thus prevent stalling. The device will naturally not work and does not use any sort of new tech but was instead intended to be a small(ish) desk toy that will show the theory of perpetual motion but also why (so far) it will not work.

I might have one of these produced just to play with, maybe it'll inspire something new?
www.jkgdesign.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLwEs0iu7U

[Bulbz]

I had thought of an idea similar to that quite a while back, but with my version the cam would have been it the center of the wheel.

[jsngeorge423]

I removed the centre of the cam so that the bulk of the rotors weight is located about the outer circumference (the rotor also has a lot of the the inner section removed) and thus should act like a flywheel gaining inertia which (in theory) could carry the rotation past the sticky spot. 

[Staffman]

@jsngeorge423

Where does the device get stuck? I like the cam idea. Are you using springs or gravity on the stator mount to push the stator back down? I wondered about this a while back. I kept thinking that if the proper springs weren't used (or stator too heavy) there would be too much force preventing the up stroke of the cam when it came around. I wondered if a train wheel type design would be better?

[jsngeorge423]

staffman,

The device would get stuck at the point where one V gate ends and another begins as the horzontal magnet would be have a very strong attraction to the last magnet on the v gate (if that makes sense :-s ).

I toyed with the idea of springs to return the bridge section but decided against it. I have instead designed the gates to operate by attraction rather than repaultion and thus no springs are required as the bridge is always pulled towards the rotor magnetically. (All things being equal the simplest option is usually the best)