LaFonte Group can turn off permanent magnet without work

[4Tesla]

Wow.. this is very cool.. just now noticed this thread!  Awesome!

4Tesla

[phoneboy]

Not yet, I'm still gearing up (tools/materials), but I don't think that would be much of an issue with your design as the fields will be alternating rapidly.  By the way congrats on your discovery, unfortuanately it side tracked me even more as I ended up modifying one of my designs as I think we could also use this to motor.

[X00013]

The trick is to find a ceramic bearings that are 100% ceramic (balls, race, and retainer (( I said balls, chuckle)), http://www.bearings-china.com/main-products/Ceramic-bearings.htm,  then use less than zero weight oil.

[gotoluc]

Full Ceramic Ball Bearings are available on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130261048429&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Luc

[EMdevices]

A magnet or electromagnet can be turned ON AND OFF with pretty much no NET energy consumption.

However, if you try and extract energy from this changing magnetic field you will inevitably see it reflected on the input.

The concept presented here runs into trouble when a coil is placed and loaded on one or both arms of the "switcher".  When that happens, the magnetic path of these legs has changed it's apparent AC reluctance and the flux will not prefer to "flow" that way, once that happens the magnetic fields/flux  configures itself such that the rotor will experience a torque, and if you fight that torque in order to to rotate the rotor, you're imputing energy into the system.

The software used to simulate the "switcher" should be used to simulate the WHOLE problem including the output coils under a load, and then it will become apparent why it is unfortunately NOT overunity.

So remember, a MAGNETOSTATIC simulation will only get you excited and then into trouble and wasted time when you try and extrapolate the results to a dynamic problem.

EM