This video explains in detail the rotor magnet layout that I am using for the first test of the prototype enhancements, and also shows the first test demo. Thanks for watching, and for your continued interest in the Pipe Dream Project. Best regards, Rick
11. May 2010 at 10:05 am
This is great. It’s looking really promising. I look forward to seeing what happens when you ad all the remaining segments and magnets. I like your solution to the changing poles problem without having to add any mechanism which would only cause friction or drag. Simple really but I missed it when I saw the origional problem you encoun.tered. The odd layout of your magnets is interesting. You must have done endless experiments to come up with that.
11. May 2010 at 5:43 pm
@syndrome95 Glad you like it. Actually, the layout seen in this video was the first one I tried after applying the flywheel and metal plates setup. I’m working on another video today with a new layout that I think you will find even more interesting, but I am not quite ready to start adding more plates and magnets.
11. May 2010 at 5:45 pm
@TheRickoff While waiting for a new order of magnets to come in, I want to experiment with different layouts on the 3 plates that I now have set up, to see if I can smooth out the rotation somewhat while lowering the elapsed time from one end of the plates to the other. I found an excellent solution for testing various layouts with a high degree of accuracy, which I will be showing in the next video.
14. May 2010 at 5:49 am
@TheRickoff i was woundering way are you rotating counter clock wize way not clock wize.
14. May 2010 at 8:54 am
@w3h3h3h111 That’s a good question that others may also be wondering about. The rotor turns better in a counterclockwise direction than clockwise, because of the curve of the stator magnet. It would turn just as well clockwise, of course, if I reoriented the stator magnet 180 degrees from its current alignment.
15. May 2010 at 6:18 am
@TheRickoff sorry if you may have talked about this before so is your stator at an angle or is it at 90 % with the rotor magnets i would like to also say thank you for what
you are doing cant wait for #33 ..
15. May 2010 at 8:06 pm
@w3h3h3h111 No angle in this video. As you can see in the opening frames, the stator is directly aligned with the rotor magnets. I will be doing some angled stator and free stator tests, among other things, during the elapsed time testing phase, which begins at video #36.