RE: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-30 Thread Remi Cornwall
Remember SMOT? The ball was put in a position of high potential magnetic energy that's why it made it up the ramp back to the start. -Original Message- From: William Beaty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 August 2006 23:16 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

RE: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-30 Thread Remi Cornwall
Incorrect. Below saturation it will have a low reluctance and so form a preferential path for the flux. Above saturation it looks like air again. -Original Message- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 August 2006 22:20 To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]: How

[Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-29 Thread Terry Blanton
From Steve's interview and close examination of the test rig image, I believe I know how the Steorn machine works. Note the large aluminum disk has what appears to be four threaded holes around it's perimeter. Also note that to the left of the disk are threaded holes in the supporting

Re: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-29 Thread Grimer
At 01:48 pm 29/08/2006 -0400, you wrote: From Steve's interview and close examination of the test rig image, I believe I know how the Steorn machine works. Note the large aluminum disk has what appears to be four threaded holes around it's perimeter. Also note that to the left of the disk are

Re: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-29 Thread peatbog
Terry Blanton wrote: From Steve's interview and close examination of the test rig image, I believe I know how the Steorn machine works. Note the large aluminum disk has what appears to be four threaded holes around it's perimeter. Also note that to the left of the disk are threaded holes in

Re: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-29 Thread Terry Blanton
On 8/29/06, peatbog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that anything that blocked a magnet's attraction was also attracted to it, so that there is extra work needed to insert or remove the shield from between the magnets. Mumetal does not block the field. Once mumetal saturates the field is

Re: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-29 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Terry Blanton wrote: A mumetal shield is arranged with a camming device such that when the disk is rotated by hand, the attractive force of the magnets adds momentum to the disk. When the rotor magnet is nearest the stator magnet, the cam drops the shield between the

Re: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-29 Thread William Beaty
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, peatbog wrote: I thought that anything that blocked a magnet's attraction was also attracted to it, so that there is extra work needed to insert or remove the shield from between the magnets. If you give the system a spin, then a shield can move in and out (which would

Re: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-29 Thread Terry Blanton
On 8/29/06, William Beaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, then perhaps the conductive parts create a large inductive drag, which keeps things from spinning fast. If the effect is genuine, then plastic parts and nonconductor supermagnets (composite rubber supermagnets) might make a big

Re: [Vo]: How Steorn Works

2006-08-29 Thread Terry Blanton
On 8/29/06, Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yah, Billbo. I was going to suggest to Sean that his rotor disk be made of PVC. However, he seems to be doing fine without my help. :-) Others have requested more details: http://www.geocities.com/terry1094/Steorn.doc Terry