Video #41,"Rick's Pipe Dream" Magnetic Motor-Generator

[TheRickoff]

@Loonwolf: I have not stopped working on this project, although my time available to do so has been scant in the past several months, and that is not going to change until after the first of next year when I move to a new home. I have not abandoned my idea of a moving stator, and still consider it the optimal setup for a magnetic motor. The tests shown in the most recent videos were done to determine the best possible rotor magnet layout to improve rotational speed and acceleration.

[TheRickoff]

@Loonwolf Multiple stators have always been part of my plan for the magnetic motor, but I wanted to develop best possible use of a single stator first. I have worked out, and explained a method, by which I believe continuous rotation will be possible with a single moving stator, and will employ that method in a future video. Only upon that success will I then begin employing more than 1 stator. In the meantime, I would suggest that you build the Pipe Dream apparatus and test your own ideas.

[TheLoonwolf]

It seems perhaps you've stopped working on this. I am puzzled why you abandoned the moving stator idea, which was causing it to accelerate. Instead it seems now you just have an initial pull producing the energy, which won't work in a circular motion, and will just run out when it gets to the end of the loop. I'm also puzzled why you didn't go for the simple option of a rotating stator (as well as multiple stators, each producing acceleration, while only one of them at a time gets reverse pull).

[toad607]

Thank you for responding yes I plan on trying my hand at this 

[TheRickoff]

@toad607 You will find a link to the Pipe Dream website within this video's description. If you click that link and then click the Archive link at the left side of the page that opens, you can then scroll down and find the free downloads of the step-by-step builders plans in either MS Word, or pdf formats. The pdf files take up less space than the Word files, but the Word files offer higher resolution photographs.

[toad607]

Are you still working on this project. This is very cool !!!

[TheRickoff]

@toad607 Yes, the project is alive and well. I have continued experimenting with rotor magnet layouts and testing, and will be posting a couple of new videos regarding those tests. I have also been working on a method to mechanically simulate the hand-held stator magnet movements, as shown in video #3, to achieve continuous rotation. Sorry for the delay in posting new videos, but this is not the only project that I have been working on. Are you considering a replication?

[TheCrimsonsGhosts]

Things are now looking up.

[TheRickoff]

@TheCrimsonsGhosts Yes, and about to get better, as my next video will show.

[Twaniantoine]

@TheRickoff did you tested how many watts is your generator going to produce with the final modifications? You're doing a great job keep it up.

[TheRickoff]

@Twaniantoine No, I'm not at the power generation stage of the build yet. I can say this, though. Even at just 100 rpm, the wheel would be capable of producing at least 100 watts or more of output power continuously. That's 72 kwh per month, which amounts to 1/3 of my last electric utility bill. So even with that amount I would be quite happy. Would you?

[Twaniantoine]

@TheRickoff can you produce electricity with the wheel as shown on Video #32 if the wheel is complete with magnets?

[TheRickoff]

@Twaniantoine No, the layout shown in video 32 is for throughput speed test only. As you can see in later videos, adding more arc sections and magnets in a continuous pattern has an undesirable slowing effect. For this reason, it would be best to utilize only two or three arc sections that are widely spaced apart.

[TheRickoff]

Note that I am using only one arc section for current speed tests of various layouts. I am making good headway in these tests, and have good news to report in the next video, which will be presented soon.

[asicit2b]

@TheRickoff Are you more focused on continous motion at this point compaired to power generated ?( amps out)

[TheRickoff]

@asicit2b Yes, quite so. First things first. Actually my current focus is on testing various rotor magnet layouts for speed of rotation, or the elapsed time for a rotor magnet group to pass by the stator unaided by any outside factor.

[asicit2b]

@TheRickoff I had worked for a job shop Years ago. The owners brother and another man who had worked there

always talked about building zero resistance bearings by growing quartz and machinning into balls ??? And putting this bearing in cars on the breaking system to recharge batteries ? Never did get what their plan was. This would have been in the 1940s and 50s when they were young and making plans.

[TheRickoff]

@asicit2b Zero resistance bearings are only possible in a levitation bearing assembly, which is in fact already a reality but very difficult for home builders to achieve due to load and balance factors. Hybrid vehicles, such as the Toyota Prius, actually do use regenerative braking to help charge the battery.

[asicit2b]

@TheRickoff They should have moved a little faster on this "Idea" ????

[TheRickoff]

@asicit2b It would appear so. I don't see how the quartz balls could achieve zero friction, but their idea about using regenerative braking to charge batteries had merit.

[valveman12]

Commendable effort. However it can never spin on it's own.

[rapinduke101]

I understand ill be watching and learning as you go through the trial and error process. , its kind of like a distributor cap on a car, getting the spark (or flux, in this case) to fire at the right moment to get everything runnning smoothly. your stator swings side to side what about having it also bump up or be pulled up by a second spinning wheel in video 25 you had a rail what about a wheel keeping the stator down and ending when it has to bump up, then hitting it to keep it down to attract

[TheRickoff]

@rapinduke101 I don't want to complicate the build with a second spinning wheel, or with anything that moves the stator by being struck, as such systems will of necessity require being driven by the rotor, thus diminishing rotational thrust. I do, however, plan to experiment with an up-down movement of the stator that would be similar to the motion shown in video #3. This would require dropping the stator into a rotor magnet group, and then lifting it after it passes through the group.

[rapinduke101]

Hey Rick Ive been following your progress how about scraping your stator for a coil that you can switch polarity much faster then you could mechanically. you could use a cap to store the energy and release it back into your circuit. in this way you can align your magnets for optimal performance while taking advantage of the potential power which could move your wheel faster. the potential collapse of the field and polarity switch gives you just as much power without losing a beat.

[TheRickoff]

@rapinduke101 That would be too easy, lol. Must stick to the plan, which is operation by magnetic and mechanical interactions only - no electrical input.

[ashtweth]

Looking great my friend and thanks so much for posting,I remember the first file of this, man its come a long way

[TheRickoff]

@ashtweth Thanks, Ash. Just doing what I can, as often as I can. I'll keep at it, you can be sure of that.

[w3h3h3h111]

@TheRickoff so when do we see more videos

[TheRickoff]

@w3h3h3h111 Soon. Had several honey-do's to take care of.