Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-13 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 12, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote: --- Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca wrote: Kyle, I have a construction suggestion. If you haven't already thought of this, try using double sided tape to position the rotor magnets instead of glue. Have to remember that for future. On

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-13 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: On May 12, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote: --- Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca wrote: Kyle, I have a construction suggestion. If you haven't already thought of this, try using double sided tape to position the rotor magnets instead of glue. Have to

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-13 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 13, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Also per Wikipedia, the Curie point for iron is 768 C. That's over 500 C margin between the hot melt temp and the Curie point, so one would guess that hot gluing the magnets is probably harmless. The Curie point of iron is

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-13 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: On May 13, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Also per Wikipedia, the Curie point for iron is 768 C. That's over 500 C margin between the hot melt temp and the Curie point, so one would guess that hot gluing the magnets is probably harmless. The

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-12 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca wrote: Kyle, I have a construction suggestion. If you haven't already thought of this, try using double sided tape to position the rotor magnets instead of glue. Have to remember that for future. On Saturday, I spent a while hot gluing them down to the

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Michel Jullian
2009/5/10, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net: On May 10, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Michel Jullian wrote: All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. Has your hand raised yet? 8^) Only under the force of my own thought so far :) I don't claim ownership of that brilliant joke BTW, I

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 10, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Michel Jullian wrote: 2009/5/10, Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net: On May 10, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Michel Jullian wrote: All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. Has your hand raised yet? 8^) Only under the force of my own thought so far

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 10, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: Suppose the wood is just wood and the magnet is just a magnet, how else might he be faking it? Harry By use of air flow directed by a large orifice nozzle off camera. It doesn't take much energy to keep a wheel turning. It is just a

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net Date: Monday, May 11, 2009 4:07 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow On May 10, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: Suppose the wood is just wood and the magnet is just a magnet, how else might he be faking

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Harry Veeder
]:Latest from Mylow --- Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I could easily design such a hoax: Batteries connected to a solenoid triggered by a Hall effect gate such that, between the gap of the rotor magnets a pulse is triggered providing enough bump to keep the rotor going

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 11, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Harry Veeder wrote: I guess he should be willing to dangle some strips of paper around the motor to prove he is not using air flow. harry Independent replication is key. And the keyword there is independent. Anything else is not dependable. You can play

RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Rick Monteverde
Horace - That's what I was thinking too, but wouldn't those dangly things on his table lamp serve to indicate air flow? They look rather heavy, but also look like they hang loose enough to indicate a fairly small breeze. R. --- By use of air flow directed by a large orifice

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread William Beaty
On Sat, 9 May 2009, Terry Blanton wrote: I could easily design such a hoax: Batteries connected to a solenoid Over the last twenty years I came up with a few rules for FE analysis. My number one rule is to either assume that the inventor is fooling himself, or the device is an outright hoax.

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 11, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Rick Monteverde wrote: Horace - That's what I was thinking too, but wouldn't those dangly things on his table lamp serve to indicate air flow? They look rather heavy, but also look like they hang loose enough to indicate a fairly small breeze. R. My

RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-11 Thread Rick Monteverde
There are several videos. In one he says that people have complained that the lamp beside the disc has a coil or something in it and he picks it, turns it over, peels off the back to show inside it. The lamp has dangling glass or plastic decorative parts that swing and move easily. My impression

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-10 Thread Michel Jullian
Scottsdale, Arizona US http://HoytStearns.com -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 2:09 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Kyle Mcallister kyle_mcallis...@yahoo.com

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-10 Thread Michel Jullian
Harry t- Original Message - From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009 5:03 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow The most probable explanation IMHO is that the guy is a prankster, besides doesn't he say so himself at the end of the 2nd video you

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-10 Thread Horace Heffner
On May 9, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote: I wonder about the aluminum U channel. One could hide a few AAA's in there, and a small 'kicker' solenoid, and some control circuitry. All it takes is a bolt (core) wrapped with a small sense coil and a larger energizing coil. You hook

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-10 Thread Harry Veeder
- From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net Date: Sunday, May 10, 2009 3:18 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow On May 9, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote: I wonder about the aluminum U channel. One could hide a few AAA's in there, and a small 'kicker' solenoid, and some

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-10 Thread Michel Jullian
: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow On May 9, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote: I wonder about the aluminum U channel. One could hide a few AAA's in there, and a small 'kicker' solenoid, and some control circuitry. All it takes is a bolt (core) wrapped with a small sense coil and a larger

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-10 Thread OrionWorks
IMO based on what little information appears to have been posted so far, there is no way to know for sure if Mylow is a con-artist or whether he really has accomplished an extraordinary feat. Under the circumstances it would seem wise not to invest one's personal convictions too strongly in

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-10 Thread Harry Veeder
]:Latest from Mylow IMO based on what little information appears to have been posted so far, there is no way to know for sure if Mylow is a con-artist or whether he really has accomplished an extraordinary feat. Under the circumstances it would seem wise not to invest one's personal

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-09 Thread Michel Jullian
, maybe within the horizontal wooden supports, but there are so many ways the thing could be faked! Michel 2009/5/7 Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca: - Original Message - From: mix...@bigpond.com Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 6:31 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow If the magnetic

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-09 Thread Harry Veeder
the stator assembly, maybe within the horizontal wooden supports, but there are so many ways the thing could be faked! Michel 2009/5/7 Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca: - Original Message - From: mix...@bigpond.com Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 6:31 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-09 Thread Terry Blanton
: Saturday, May 9, 2009 5:03 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow The most probable explanation IMHO is that the guy is a prankster, besides doesn't he say so himself at the end of the 2nd video you linked to? Something like Look at me, I am the prankster, now you guys find how I did it. My

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-09 Thread Kyle Mcallister
--- Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I could easily design such a hoax: Batteries connected to a solenoid triggered by a Hall effect gate such that, between the gap of the rotor magnets a pulse is triggered providing enough bump to keep the rotor going. All hidden in the woods so

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Kyle Mcallister kyle_mcallis...@yahoo.com wrote: --- Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: ...or am I? cue lightning bolts, organ music Kitty fur static electricity? Terry

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-09 Thread OrionWorks
From Kyle: ... While I think this thing probably will not work, I am building an attempted replication with my wife. We're heading back to the workshop now to continue, rotor is ready, and we'll make the stator. It is entertaining her, so that counts for something :) I wonder about the

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Kyle Mcallister kyle_mcallis...@yahoo.com wrote: --- Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder about the aluminum U channel. One could hide a few AAA's in there, and a small 'kicker' solenoid, and some control circuitry. Hmmm. And he has adjusted the

RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-09 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 2:09 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Kyle Mcallister kyle_mcallis...@yahoo.com wrote: --- Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: ...or am I? cue lightning bolts, organ music Kitty fur static

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread Michel Jullian
2009/5/5 Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca: - Original Message - From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 2:21 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow 2009/5/5 OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com: ...eddies within the rotating aluminum disk... Ah, is he

RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread Jones Beene
Harry MJ: More seriously, 36 hours is no big feat, a simple pendulum can run much longer than that while swapping potential energy with kinetic energy, just like magmos do. I think such a pendulum would have to swing higher and higher when it first starts to run for the comparison to be

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 3:19 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow 2009/5/5 Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca: - Original Message - From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 2:21

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread Mike Carrell
1) Alnico will not discharge or decay except by strong heating [to the Curie point] or a very strong magnetic field, neither of which exist in the Mylow setup. It takes a very strong magnetic field to magnetize the alloy, as with ferrite or neodymium. These typically relax some after the

Re: RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 10:36 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow Harry MJ: More seriously, 36 hours is no big feat, a simple pendulum can run much longer than that while swapping potential energy with kinetic

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread OrionWorks
From Mike Carrell My comments spaced between Mike's 1) Alnico will not discharge or decay except by strong heating [to the Curie point] or a very strong magnetic field, neither of which exist in the Mylow setup. It takes a very strong magnetic field to magnetize the alloy, as with ferrite or

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: From Mike Carrell My comments spaced between Mike's 1) Alnico will not discharge or decay except by strong heating [to the Curie point] or a very strong magnetic field, neither of which exist in the Mylow setup. It takes a very strong magnetic field to magnetize the

Re: RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 10:36 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow Harry MJ: More seriously, 36 hours is no big feat, a simple pendulum can run much longer than that while swapping potential energy with kinetic

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Wed, 06 May 2009 15:41:23 -0400: Hi, [snip] But that would involve a conspiracy of sorts! Right. Anybody who puts an experiment on a glass table to show there's nothing hidden underneath and then puts up a U-tube video of it doing something

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Wed, 06 May 2009 15:41:23 -0400: Hi, [snip] But that would involve a conspiracy of sorts! Right. Anybody who puts an experiment on a glass table to show there's nothing hidden underneath and then puts up a U-tube video

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-06 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: mix...@bigpond.com Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 6:31 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow If the magnetic domain wall relaxation time is on the same order of size as the time between changes in magnetic field strength due to passage of the moving

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread OrionWorks
From: Harry Veeder Mylow demonstrates his magnetic motor on a table with a glass top: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvMbgGcHeEYfeature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMdwL7bBmGEfeature=channel The stator magnets (at the upper left of the assembly) consist of two horseshoe magnets in

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 9:13 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow From: Harry Veeder Mylow demonstrates his magnetic motor on a table with a glass top: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvMbgGcHeEYfeature=channel

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread OrionWorks
From Harry Veeder: Somewhere he said the bar magnets came from radioshack. I would like to see him cover the Aluminum disk with something non-magnetic. Yes, indeed! I tracked down some additional info on the subject. A very good description of Mylow's detailed explorations of the HJ

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread Michel Jullian
2009/5/5 OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com: ...eddies within the rotating aluminum disk... Ah, is he? (your comment called for this Arthur Dent quote didn't it Steven ;-) More seriously, 36 hours is no big feat, a simple pendulum can run much longer than that while swapping potential energy

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread OrionWorks
From Michel: 2009/5/5 OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com: ...eddies within the rotating aluminum disk... Ah, is he? (your comment called for this Arthur Dent quote didn't it Steven ;-) You've got me in the cross-hairs, Michel. I doubt my clunky prose will ever be as eloquent as Douglas

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread Terry Blanton
Lenz effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz's_law If anything, it will impede the motion of the motor. Terry On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:03 PM, OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: From Michel: 2009/5/5 OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com: ...eddies within the rotating aluminum

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread OrionWorks
Terry Sez: Lenz effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz's_law If anything, it will impede the motion of the motor. Indeed, methinks that's a logical assumption. I was looking at the same Wiki link. Nevertheless, the alnico magnets are slowly demagnetizing. My suspicion is that the

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: Michel Jullian michelj...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 2:21 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow 2009/5/5 OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com: ...eddies within the rotating aluminum disk... Ah, is he? (your comment called for this Arthur Dent

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread Terry Blanton
Frankly, I think things are happening off camera. My opinion, I could be wrong. All tests performed by my group show that you must eliminate as many conductors from the magnetic motor as possible. I'll consider replication when we see some independent testimony from one who has seen the motor

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Carrell
I finally looked at the Mylow video. There have been many attempts at something like this. Some years ago there was the SMOT, featuring a ball bearing and a ramp between two magnets. There was seeming sincerity on the part of its inventor, but the end was disappointment. There have been

RE: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread Mark Iverson
@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow From Harry Veeder: Somewhere he said the bar magnets came from radioshack. I would like to see him cover the Aluminum disk with something non-magnetic. Yes, indeed! I tracked down some additional info on the subject. A very good description

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net mounted the barricade and roared out: Why the different magnets? There was some mention of asymmetry involved... is it asymmetric with respect to magnet material? Did he try using

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: OrionWorks svj.orionwo...@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 4:28 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow Terry Sez: Lenz effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenz's_law If anything, it will impede the motion of the motor. Indeed, methinks

Re: [Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-05 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the smoke cleared, Harry Veeder hvee...@ncf.ca mounted the barricade and roared out: Do you think your group might be able to test this hypothesis? ... One might also trying using the plastic disk with and without a layer of aluminium foil.

[Vo]:Latest from Mylow

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Veeder
Mylow demonstrates his magnetic motor on a table with a glass top: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvMbgGcHeEYfeature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMdwL7bBmGEfeature=channel The stator magnets (at theupper left of the assembly) consist of two horseshoe magnets in a staggered arrangement.