Video #17, "Rick's Pipe Dream" Magnetic Motor - Generator

This video shows the 26+5/8" diameter 3/4" birch plywood flywheel ring which has been attached to the bike wheel, and a spin test is performed with the stator at full height above the rotor. The flywheel has some runout that throws the wheel off balance, which of course is a negative aspect that needs to be addressed. Also, the 3+3/4 pound additional weight will cause further drag on the bearings, which are already in rough shape. Thus, I perform this test spin not knowing if these negatives can be overcome by the magnetic forces of attraction and repulsion, and whatever amount of inertial momentum that can be provided by the flywheel. Does it work? Watch and see.......

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Magnetic
• Motor
• Generator
• MOSTAT
• Rickoff

[100roberthenry]

hi rick, have you tried a linkage to the wheel so it will move the upper magnet for you as it spins...and therefore drives itself?...with an initial spin of course... thanks. interesting stuff.

[TheRickoff]

@100roberthenry - Hi Rob, see video #23 for a demonstration of such linkage. After some testing, I abandoned the tracking method for moving the stator because of the force required. My current method does involve moving the stator, but by a means which requires very little anti-rotational force be applied. The new movement is in an up-down motion which closely mimics the hand movement seen in video #3.

[rabidcat2104]

honestly, you sound like Dave Mustaine

[TheRickoff]

@rabidcat2104 I assure you that I am not Dave Mustaine, the lead guitarist, founder, songwriter, and vocalist for Megadeth, but thanks for the comparison. I just listened to Dave speaking on a YouTube video from a Jeopardy show that he appeared on and didn't quite see the resemblance in voice, but I know that we don't hear ourselves the same as others hear us.

[ggibney0856]

Wouldn't it be better on the gravity force if you set the wheel at 45 degrees vs the 90 degrees of it being upright ?

[TheRickoff]

@ggibney0856 This apparatus could certainly be used for gravity wheel experimentation, but in its current configuration tilting the wheel would only show benefit from an imbalance state (such as by removing one magnet group, or adding an additional fixed weight) with a heavier portion of the wheel moving downhill. Once you pass the bottom of the slope, however, you would have to move that weight uphill and therefore nothing would be gained as your advantage would be nullified.

[TheRickoff]

@paultomasi Yes, it does require hand energy to move the stator magnet, but the requirement is smaller than what would be needed to mechanically hand crank the wheel into rotation.

[paultomasi]

This video shows nothing but a flywheel being (indirectly) 'cranked' by hand. The side-to-side movement of the magnets itself require energy (by the hand) - energy which you may just as well have used to spin the flywheel directly!

[TheRickoff]

@EmailWillLee "Great job making the wheel though."

Thanks for the praise, but I did not make the wheel. It is a standard 26 inch steel rim bicycle wheel, as pointed out in an earlier video from this series.

[TheRickoff]

@EmailWillLee "I really wish you got someone else to speak for you."

Are you applying for the job? If so, please leave your "got's" out of whatever you have to say.