Levitating magnetic Sphere; Schwebende Magnet Kugel

[numton666]

Have you ever try to put iron fillings on the sphere magnet while it spin and fly .

[Kubus63]

@Cashilysh :)

[kmentt]

Thanks, but...Hundreds of videos on Globe and how it flies. We all know that by now. I have a Levitron spin since 1991. What would be a huge youtube success is if some guy "opens" the base, disassemble it, showing how its inside (the base), and how its connected to the power source, so we can do our homemade versions. This is my tip. Enough of vids showing how it flies. Post vids showing how its made !!!

[Br0kenMan]

Very impressive! The homopolar motor is a great idea to gain the required velocity. To me this is much more satisfying than the standard spinning top shape, as rotational progression is well known. The sphere enhances the floating effect as it appears not to be spinning. Good job.

[Kubus63]

@Br0kenMan Thank you!

[1freak1015]

lol thats fucking awesome

[regretsmyl]

check this! just now i see the new version of levitron world stage

[regretsmyl]

hmmm you say that you use 1.5v batterie but i see that your betterie looks like 2 betteries.I'm right? ;)

[Kubus63]

yes, I use 2 NiMh Batteries with 1.2 Volts parallel, so with strong current the tension may go down to 1 Volt.

[regretsmyl]

right..;) Thank you :)) i will try this but after i will buy one ''Levitron WORLD STAGE'' because i want to watch this lavitation all day! ;) it's magic! Thanks

[regretsmyl]

The truth is that at the first seconds of this video i thought that the sphere don't spin! And i said Wowo! how he do that. Hehe ;) Anyway it's a super idea and i think you are the only you have upload this here! i will try this but i don't know where i can find the magnetic rubber plate .

[Kubus63]

You can get the material for magnetic plates to put on car in many shops for magnets.

[yulldo4me]

Thanks for youre reply that really helps.

I now have a new problem.When i lift the copper plate with my sphere on over my levitron the sphere tends to slow down rapidly, and flip over to the correct poles.Simply turns over attracts and not repell away.Any ideas?Help me someone.

[Kubus63]

I is not easy to get HIGH speed, but it helps to polish the copper plate and the sphere.

Then you need freshly charged batteries and when the sphere sounds like the drill of a dentist you surely have enough speed!

[yulldo4me]

Could you explain in a bit more detail please how to get the magnetic sphere spinning using the Homopolar motor.I,ve got all the parts just not sure about the motor side of things.What goes where and what connects to what.Thanks i,d really appreciate it.BRILLIANT YOURE A GENIUS.

[Kubus63]

It is difficult because the homopolar motor has allmost no force. You need a lot of current, I recommend 1 Volt and 20 Ampere. One side of the batterie connects to the copper plate and the other side of the batterie connects directly to the magnet sphere, good luck!!!

[yulldo4me]

WOW

[tunisienmushroom12]

mashallah

[SargentoBombarda]

Is the the magnetic sphere with copper plate a homopolar motor?

[Kubus63]

Yes, exactly!

[cougarrcsnva]

What kind of magnet is the bottom base magnet? Is it ferrite/ceramic I presume? And is it a ring magnet? How many inches is it across and how thick? Thanks for your help.

[Kubus63]

The outer diameter of the ferrite magnet ring is 6 inches, the hole has 3 inches diameter and the thicknes is 1 inch! And I put some more magnets for calibration, for example one ring of an old microwafe magnetron in the middle! Good luck!

[metamaterial]

How does one calibrate the base rather than the top? Can you fine tune it mechanically without using more than a few magnets? This is something I have to try.

[Kubus63]

I wish you good luck trying! I use many little magnets to put on the ring to calibrate the force! May the Force be with you :-)

[Rammfelix]

this test is very old! this is the primitve form from the German UFO technology Levitation Motors!

[cougarrcsnva]

this is genius. I noticed that you had to tilt the plate a little to slow down the speed of the sphere. Could you somehow regulate the voltage so that it only spins the exact speed needed? and why does the battery have to be 1.5 volts or less? Is the base magnet regular ceramic I presume? What is the heaviest and largest sphere that you could suspend? could you suspend a very large ball? Thanks for the help as I would love to try this myself.

[Kubus63]

Thanks for the questions! The magnetic sphere is from Iron, Boron and Neodymium, (ceramics are insulators and then the motor could not work.)

Voltage regulation is no problem, just try! But with higher currents my sphere was damaged from the sparks! Smallest size 0.5 inch, biggest size I tried 1.5 inch but bigger is possible. God bless!

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[davidmilunic]

Could you give a little more detail on the starter? I

[Kubus63]

All you need is a copper-plate, a strong cable, the magnetic sphere (neodyme) and a strong rechargeble battery with not more then 1.5 Volt.

Then you connect the battery with the plate and one end of the cable, the other end touches the equator of the sphere. Good luck!!

[ymi2b]

Beautiful! I never thought to combine the homopolar electromagnetic effect to spin the magnet and then levitate it over the Levitron. Great idea!

When you start the spin of the sphere, do you have a magnet under the table force the poles of the sphere to be vertical so that the rotation of the sphere's spin is around the poles' axis (thus being properly aligned for levitating over the levitron)

[Kubus63]

No, I just have a thin magnetic rubber plate under the cupper plate, what I call magnetic foil in the video. When I have placed the sphere above the ringmagnet, I take it away. Thanks for the comment!

[OrtwinSchenker]

Very nice! I'm surprised a magnetic sphere is floating like a levitron. I thought there would be a stability problem. I'll have to look up the physics once again.

[Energyfield]

I like your brilliant starter mechanism as

well as your main demonstration. Is your

levitational height greater than the Levitron

top or about the same.

[Kubus63]

I put an extra magnetic Ring, so the hight is greater as with the levitron omega, but the original top and the sphere have about the same height.

[e121212]

i'm perplex here

the difficulty with levitron stability is to adjust the top weight to +-0.1g and it seems your sphere just has the right weight.

What is it made of? Is it a whole NIB magnet?

[Kubus63]

Yes, it is a massive NIB-magnet, and I adjust only the strenght of the ringmagnet on the table. This is also possible with the original Levitron, and good practice!

[regretsmyl]

so that means that i can do that without the extra magnetic ring? I have a Cherry wood levitron. ;)

[Kubus63]

Yes, I did it also with a Cherry Levitron, with some additional Magnets on the ring for callibration. Good luck!

[magneticjem]

Great levitation, don't know what practical use it would be but I like it.

[alfkontento]

elevators...

[HLX99]

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