Self-Runner // Gary Wesley's Motor // Torbay

[emitremmah]

Les,
Thanks for that. I may end up saying good bye to this project in the near future but for now it occupies my evenings while watching the idiot box. I may run into a point where I too conclude that the forces don't end in surplus. I am hoping to know one way or the other in a couple of weeks.

I am not fond of having to tool things but i need more consistancy in the objects. The stators are just too unstable. I am holding off on improving the pivot axels and improving the rotor and a dozen other things that are affecting my results until such time as it becomes necessary; and that will only occur when it is shown not to be, but would add more to the output.

Today I am getting some dowels and looking in my scrap timber for some old masonite.
I will use the dowels as cross supports on the stators and the masonite for the base. I will be using the image I uploaded as the template for cutting slots in the masonite to hold the stators.

Hammertime

[emitremmah]

Well I have done some more.
I have routed grooves in some mdf to hold the stators. This meant that they are no longer the same height as the rotor. So I redrilled axle holes in the stators.
I have come up with the lid. It is from a ceiing lighting fixture. Heavy aluminum disk.
A video is on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-N4jtCwqdIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-N4jtCwqdI
This shows the action of stators without the lid pushin down.

In testing I believe that in order to lower the stators into line with the rotor will take more than is being delivered by the rotational energy. As a result I have now double the magnet face on each rotor attempting to increase the repulsive effect. I am in the  process of realigning and rebalancing the stators.

I have also started the cut on the aluminium disk.

I will need to bend this more appropriately but as a start it is not bad. The wheel it is attached to is about a 5kg spool of stitching wire for book staples. When properly balanced the single magnet faced stators can turn it fairly easily, though not as easily as without. I am thinking maybe the additional mass will help in a flywheel sort of assistance.

Hammertime

[Omnibus]

So, this isn't yet working on it's own. You're turning it by hand, right?

[emitremmah]

That's correct. And funny thing is it looks just like Torbays! except backwards. Stators above rotor magnet and down when no magnet.
It demonstrates that one does not have to be in contact with the top except when being pushed down.

The more I play the less thrilled I am becoming. 2 maganets per stator does not seem to increase torque. I actually seems to have reduced torque slightly. bit difficult to measure though.

Any ideas how to create a simple torque measure?

A spiral spring in the center perhaps that tightens as the rotor turns and a dial on the end of it. Something like that.  A bit of string attached to the edge then over a lever lifting a weight?  ....

[casstete]

there is a device based on gary's  called the toy by www.overunitybuilder.com ... you seen that one ?

Else I also have a portuguese inventor who made a sophisticated design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybWA9wWfUbQ

Look at this one http://linoavac.no.sapo.pt/electrorepulsion2.jpg very smart guy with excellent scientific background