interesting - never heard of it - thanks mate

Sounds like you were working at area 51

Wouldn't a generator spinning whit magnetic bearings be superior to current friction bearings ?

is it? I didn't know that and to be honest that is super cool - it is a fascinating world!

Right, DIY'ing using stuff others made is pretty fun. Who needs to make their own magnets when you can have them factory made and shipped to your home for super cheap lol.

@@Rick-the-Swift unless u dig the ground with your bare hands for the materials, u're using somethibg that others made. it's about finding a good threshold

@@timucinbahsi445 Agreed, I admit I was being a bit facetious, as I perhaps mistakenly thought you were in your original post as well. But yes, I like to upcycle, whatever whenever I can. For instance, why throw out a toilet when it makes a perfectly good garden planter? Totally agree- don't underestimate the value of well engineered and manufactured ingredients when mixing your own concoction.👍

If you remember those plunger toys. Where you just repeatedly pressed the plunger and it would cause a disk to spin well. That sound exactly like what the wind would do here. Like it! Great thinking!

@@jasonhaymanonthedrawingboard oh yeah, i remember those. A spinning top, with a plunger, and it used to humm lol

@@jasonhaymanonthedrawingboard Hi, ive sent you an email. Some ideas

@@DiyEcoProjects nice! I’ve already replied with a few suggestions.

always a good day when the sun is out mate

nice info mate - cheers

it just makes it so say mate

@@ThinkingandTinkering easy it does !So I suppose you could convert a remote control car to maglev suspension then ? 😂😂 would be great!

I can see you making good use of this mate - it would make a very good generator for sure - cheers

magnets are the closest things to magic in this world.

cheers mate

I am glad you liked it mate and I am sure you will find a use for it

@@ThinkingandTinkering for sure! 😎🙌

awesome lol

Glad you enjoyed it

yep!

never heard of serrpolet before now mate - brilliant heads up many thanks for sharing the idea

Thank you! Cheers!

it would indeed

interesting cheers

lol - cheers mate

I think you said a lot of what a lot of us on here agree on many things be discovered yet just up my garage scientist thinking..🤔

Isn't this concept unviable unless on gas bearings in a vacuum or something sophisticated like that? I guess this might be good for low power applications like in survival for running a light. I've often thought about this design but couldn't come up with the practical applications for it or how the energy ROI works out.

cheers mate

pretty much - time is such a relative thing as are the forces applied lol - I am glad you like the videos mate - cheers

ok

Not sure yet

maybe but it is well worth working onion you do mate

@@ThinkingandTinkering if i can get it working, I will be sending you the plans to build it. Its simple in theory, but requires a bit of precision balancing and bloody strong magnets for the X and Y axis. A key factor to note is that the stronger the gauss rating of a magnet on it's surface, the less it's magnetic volume will be, but, the greater its flux density. Knowing this, you can use extremely strong N52 magnets as directional stabilizers for multiple axis.

no mate - it's doing work because I spun it

@@ThinkingandTinkering but being a magnet in motion is it not creating a current in it's vicinity whether or not there is something conductive there to resist. If that doesn't slow it down you could remove all air resistance by doing it in a vacuum and then seek a solid material that is magnetic but not metallic or conductive and you have a levitating and spinning object that will spin forever

@@SodiumInteresting look into M.E.S.S. technology. Mass Energy Storage Systems.

I don't mean to be facetious here mate - I am being serious - but I suppose in the same way a table does after all that holds up weight against the force of gravity. I believe surfaces don't actually touch they just look like they do there is a very short range force called the Casimir force that keeps them apart. If all the drains in a material are aligned like in a magnet we can see that separation - I think that is pretty much what is going on here

@@ThinkingandTinkering Point taken. I think the issue is whether work is being done, if so, laws of thermodynamics should apply....or if not, we just accept it's as you say, a mysterious quality of nature like gravity, that we just accept as a given.....

@@mfr58 I tend to ignore these so called "Laws" as laws they are not. Just workable opinions to help attempts to decribed what is observed. They are assumptions, not Laws, base on a fixed set of circumstances like gravity, air pressure vs a vacuum. The so-called law of conservation of energy is a perfect example, as it is a theoretical construct never intended to be applied to the physical universe yet is applied by people to the physical universe erroneously all the time. When I question these people of letters phds and such I remind them that the law of conservation of energy is a theoretical construct and was never intended to be applied to the physical environment. The usual have nothing to say but insist it's a law, even when I get them to admit it doesn't apply to the physical universe. Einstein's theory of everything failed because what applies in large cannot be applied to what is in the small it breaks down. In college Tesla's professor called his alternating motor concept a Ponzi scheme. If you plan to think outside the box you may want to look at all assumptions of reality as possibly only applying to a fixed set of predetermined things like gravity, air pressure, vacuum. Take these fixed forces out of the equation or counter them and all of a sudden laws don't apply. All who made advancement in any Field of endeavors challenged what was already accepted. OHM'S so called Law was heavy rejected and he lost his job over it. Was in practically hidings for some 30 years. Same for Tesla they prosecuted him mercilessly.

it would fall out - with horizontal arrangements the weight is a bit of an issue

@@ThinkingandTinkering a well fit bearing on the shaft wouldn’t fix that?

I’m thinking the repelling magnetic forces would secure the middle magnet if the two on the end are secured, then reduce resistance but that’s not using your 2lb flywheel

yes but what then would be the point as it would be the bearing carrying the load not the magnetic field

give it a go mate = let me know how it works out

go for it

I understand mate - but I am trying this method out to see how it goes - keeping it fresh mate lol

Interesting, I quite liked when it became a voice-over because you could see what he had been doing as he was talking about it.

you do indeed - but this pseudo levitation not levitation - just to say wrong is a bit insulting you know - you might want to rephrase that a bit - just a hint lol

that's what they have and what is easy to get hold of cheaply?

Availability and some ignorance combination.

​@@ThinkingandTinkering availability for some yes, folk that repurpose what they have (repurpose is good, done so all my life) but there are folk that would drop $$ on projects too I've followed the magnetic bearing set-ups used for a while and I just don't see anyone trying to work with geometry other than flat on flat which I really find odd. When I have thought about this, what comes to my mind is: with bar magnets, and the speaker magnets (well ring magnets really), you could arrange the bar's in a V shape and the speaker as shown. Using say two off the shelf plastic oil funnels as shape forms, glue attache the bar magnets to the outside of one and inside of the other. Like to like of course, that should remove a lot of the X and Y wander, then use the pair of speaker magnets as shown here to retain the cone in cone so there is Z-axis stability as well.