Well, you gotta start somewhere. Back in 2013, I started tinkering around with permanent magnet motors just for kicks and giggles. Something to do. I’d seen quite a few different concepts on YouTube, and various websites, and it got me thinking. I hate it when that happens, because when I get my mind on something, I’m like a hound dog chasing a rabbit. I don’t want to give up until I see some kind of results for my labors. Some would call that O.C.D., but I don’t think I really am. I work in what some people call creative chaos… I’m messy, but my results are usually good no matter what the project.
I was really interested in James Roney‘s self running Magnet Motor. My first motor was an attempt to duplicate his results without using his one way stator. The concept I used was to place several different sized magnets on a smaller child’s bicycle rim, and then place two stators in close proximity to the wheels magnets. After trying different variations over the course of a couple of weeks, the wheel would run for about 2 minutes until the magnetic cogging effect finally caught up with it. Click on the image to enlarge it…
At that point, I abandoned that concept for the time being. I figured I’d watch Mr. Roney’s work as he progressed to see what breakthrough’s he may come up with. I may still buy one of his stators for my own experiments in the future.
Next on the agenda was to create a similar wheel to the bike rim model, but flatter, with a less stationary stator. I chose wood for my material for the mechanism. Why waste a perfectly good, well equipped woodshop since I already had one? I figure that if a prototype worked, I could move along to a more durable material like aluminum later on. This next motor prototype was a simple hammer and wheel concept I’ll describe later. This gave me the needed information to move onto the next concept.
Thinking that the wheel could be actuated by a piston movement, I started building another. Mind you, I was only thinking about wheel movement at the time, and not the actual magnetic propulsion it’s self. This was simply a concept model. In the image below you can see the wooden wheel with 8 ceramic magnets, angled, and equally spaced on the wheel. Click on the image to enlarge it…
You’ll also notice the wire coming from underneath the wheel. This was hooked to a 12v bicycle generator, which also served as my pivot for the wheel. To the right you can see the piston mounted in a stationary block of wood, with a 1″ button magnet and 3 neodymium magnets facing the wheel magnets. At the other end of the piston rod is a eccentric pivot wheel mounted to an electric motor. The motor was powered by a 6v lantern battery, which I thought I could charge with the generator mounted to the wheel hub. The mechanism worked extremely well, but I never could get it to charge the battery.
Okay, so now I’ve got you up to speed to the latest project. This one works the opposite of magnetic neutralization developed by a fellow named Art Porter. His idea was to neutralized a large magnet until the piston, which had a strong neodymium magnet attached to it came against a neutralized set of magnets. When that happened, the electricity which was neutralizing these magnets was shut off, and the mags repelled each other, pushing the piston away. Each magnet was of the same polarity. Positive to positive, or negative to negative. Click on the image to enlarge it…
My idea was the opposite of Art Porters, in that I used powerful neodymium magnets on the piston head, and an electromagnet (from a microwave) on the stator side… I built this concept over a year ago with some pretty good results.
I’m in the process of re-building it now as you see in the image above. Click on the image to enlarge it…
The next step is to build, and install a reed switch, and place magnets underneath the wheel to activate the switch. Timing is going to be aggravating to figure out, because these magnets have to activate the reed switch at the precise time the wheel and piston reach the push point. This is the most promising motor I have right now, and I’ll have the plans online in the next few months.