Unified Gravity and Magnetic Generator Principle

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Here is a simple design I wanted to share with you, the height of the track will make a difference, here is a simple magnetic track demonstrating vertical climb thanks to my friend Gilles in France, he gave me the idea of taking it further.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-KYiTwtRo

I hope it gives you ideas to expand on.

Jerry

[AB Hammer]

onthecuttingedge2005

I see some real possibilities in this one. The first thing I would like to see is a spinning device to utilize the weight of the falling magnets. A wheel that only catches on the descending side with a generator to help run it, or to run it. I have some other ideas as well.

Alan

[onthecuttingedge2005]

I guess if one really wanted to they could just place some more air core coils on the balls drop side. the speed of the ball is going to be important.

[AB Hammer]

I guess if one really wanted to they could just place some more air core coils on the balls drop side. the speed of the ball is going to be important.

onthecuttingedge2005

More magnet balls would probably work, for I think it would become a timing issue. It could also help time the flipping unit at the top by a connection to the wheel.

Alan

[mscoffman]

Here is a simple design I wanted to share with you, the height of the track will make a difference, here is a simple magnetic track demonstrating vertical climb thanks to my friend Gilles in France, he gave me the idea of taking it further.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp-KYiTwtRo

I hope it gives you ideas to expand on.

Jerry

@onthecuttingedge

Two things:

(o) Don't forget you can lay this over at an angle and you will
decrease the effect of gravitational force porportionally.

(o)It may be better to have the magnetic coils on the gravity
side if the ball is moving faster there. The coils will move the
ball around some though.

Generally though, this design will not work as-is because it
will take too much electrical energy to pull the ball out of
the grasp of array's magnetic field, because your example
track is designed suboptimally.

But try this ramp(Gilles);

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BsOW6P7QM&feature=sub

Here the runner comes out of the ramp on it's own and needs
only to be redirected back to the begining. The array and the
runner are more complex then in your example. Just set up
a mechanism to deliver the runner back to begining at low
energic additional cost and you will have it. An electrical
generator can supply a slight amount of additional energy
to compensate for some friction.

:S:MarkSCoffman