hey
Guys,
Harry gave a
website for Calloway's Engines regarding that V-track thing I brought up a few
days ago.. has anybody found instructions on how to create your own track?
I've been looking but haven't found anything that I can understand yet.
Regarding the
Perendev device.. you know at first I was excited thinking that it was a go..
but now I'm beginning to rethink that. I'm wondering how he got that one
device to run in the video, but as far as getting it to work in my head (much
cheaper than trying to make it work in real life) everything seems to balance
out to zero, no motion at all.
One of you
emailed me offlist saying that you have a working model. I'm interested
because in my head, it won't work. Can you show me how it worked?
Are you willing to divulge that information?
Here's why it
won't work, at least to me. First, the idea behind the Perendev, as I
understand it, is that the repelling magnets in the outer ring push against
the magnets in the inner ring to create spin being offset. Then once one
rotor spins, that should shift the 2nd rotor to spin out of place putting that
2nd rotor into a repelling spot thus pushing the 2nd rotor, to push the 3rd
rotor out of place and the cycle goes on and on and on, indefinitely.. what
doesn't work in my head is the first spin.. since the magnets in the 2nd rotor
and third rotor are already being pushed against in their current positions
causing no spin at all as shown in this video...
If you'll
notice, Mr. Sterling says right up front in the video that his Perendev model is
just "an expensive toy". I can see now why.
I'm
interested though in the Calloway thing to see if that really works. It
seems that it does, but I'm not sure if that car is moving on account of the
magnets under and on it, or if maybe that's a trick of the perception..
Anybody able
to help?
Thanks!
Anthony
Anthony
