Video #24, "Rick's Pipe Dream" Magnetic Motor - Generator Project

This video is a continuation of videos #22 and 23, and shows the configuration and testing of the second test track layout. A pull test is also shown, which demonstrates the resistive pressure encountered between the track and stator carriage wheels during the previous tests. The pull test shows that the resistive drag force encountered ranged from 3 to 6 ounces. To avoid this drag, the second track is configured so that there is minimal resistance throughout the progressing rotor magnet group, with stator movement only at the tail end of the group. This allows full rotational movement through the group, but leaves the North pole of the stator positioned above the tail end of the rotor group, and this of course is undesirable since it will cause a strong attraction that will slow down the rotor, stop rotation, and even cause it to reverse direction once the last magnet of the South rotor group has passed beyond the stator's North pole. To avoid this, there must be rapid movement of the stator carriage, at the tail end of the rotor magnet group, so that the South pole of the stator is brought into repulsion with the last rotor magnet. It appears that such rapid movement may be impossible to achieve with the track system, and that other means will need to be employed for this purpose. I will be exploring such methods in the coming days, and these will include mechanical and magnetic means. In order to achieve continuous rotation, both the attraction and repulsion forces must be utilized. There will be one more video showing additional test results obtained during this initial testing phase of the track layouts, and then future videos will explore the modifications that would appear to be necessary or beneficial. Thanks for watching. - Rick

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Science & Technology

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• Pipe
• Dream
• Magnetic
• Motor-Generator
• rickoff

[ggibney0856]

Instead of moving the stator.. leave it as a stationary position and move the magnets to the curve you are trying to achieve thereby not having any friction issues

[TheRickoff]

@ggibney0856  Sure, it is easy enough to move the rotor magnets into a curving lineup (in the current configuration - not as mounted in this video), but how would you propose achieving repulsion to the stator at the tail end of a rotor magnet group if using that method? It would mean that the last magnet of the group would have to be in repulsion to the stator immediately after the rotor group passes the stator, either by moving the stator into repulsion or changing polarity of the last magnet.

[TheRickoff]

Remember, the magnets of each rotor magnet group are in attraction to the stator. If you change the polarity of the last magnet in a rotor magnet group, you would have to do that after it passes by the stator. Otherwise, it would cause rotation to halt as the last magnet approaches the stator. Therefore you would have to physically move the last rotor magnet just after it passes the stator. A curving rotor magnet layout cannot accomplish that.

[djchefhams]

nice work. nothing ventured nothing gained. Good to see some ppl actually using their brains and giving something a go. keep at it.

[TheRickoff]

@djchefhams Thanks, and you can rest assured the project will continue.

[VeneerBox]

If there was an inkling of evidence that your prototype could indeed run by itself (let alone produce some power) I would have been cutting PVC pipe 10 months ago! I believe the truth is that you have come to the impassable point, joined by all the ghosts of those who have also hit this same point over the millennia.

I would rejoice in your success if I ever thought is would come to pass.

VB

[TheRickoff]

If you truly believed, 10 months ago, that replicating the prototype would have been a waste of time, then why have you wasted 4 hours watching my 25 videos? What you believe is your business, and it doesn't defray me from continuing to pursue my Pipe Dream. The project continues, and progress is still being made. I don't believe in impasses. Obstacles and challenges - yes, but never an impasse. If I had your negative frame of mind then I, as you, never would have started with this effort.

[TheRickoff]

You could certainly do this, but of course it would complicate the build. It would be easier to employ cam actions and multiple stators on a single wheel, and this is a concept that I do favor and will be experimenting with. I suggest that you construct the basic Pipe Dream apparatus and begin experimenting. It is easy to build and inexpensive. You can start with just a few magnets and perform many experiments this way. Best 2 U, Rick :)

[Cthrilla]

What if you had two wheels working in conjunction. Each wheel has a like a cam which moves the stator of the other wheel allowing it to pass the "hump" the cam would activate at the opposite position of each other. At ones power stroke the other one disables and vise versa does that make sense? It does to me I'm not sure if im explaining it write. But I share the same pipe dream as you only I have not made any models due to lack of funds.

[TheRickoff]

The stator must slide outwards at the tail end of a South rotor magnet group, and inwards at the tail end of a North group. No getting around that if the stator is to be aligned properly forthe next approaching rotormagnet group.