Step #5 is the same as step #1 butch  .

Just like butch said when you close in they will pull on you so that's energy gain. You'll just have to give that energy back when you spread the magnets back open. On the other hand you can use a clever trick to not feel any push/pull by doing the below thing. Basically you have a set of magnets that always repel each other attached to this main apparatus. I was thinking of ways how to store the energy effectively when the poles come to each other. Springs wouldn't work nicely as their forces are linear with distance. I need something that had a 1/distance relationship. Then it struck that one could just use magnets in repulsion. That way the attraction from the main apparatus will get canceled by the repulsion of magnets attached to it. Same poled electrical charge could also be used if you worry about demagnetization.

Broli,
See this link for Balance Fixture video from 10 years ago. It's an oldie but goodie.
https://www.yousendit.com/download/U0d5b2VDVnNFd2NLSkE9PQ
Butch

Butch I have a rotor design in mind that uses the balance experiment you did on youtube. Although it does not use the fanner repulsion but can be incorporated. But I just wanted to keep it as simple and effective as possible. Sure you can convince a lot of people that step by step there's a net energy gain, but everyone wants to see a self resetting runner in the end  .

The design I have is 3d in nature so I'm going to give sketchup a go and try to make a rendition of it.

Edit: Design is attached below. I have to admit that it has many unfinished parts as I got too lazy  . Even the spacing of the guiding hoops is not correct. But this is the main idea. First of all from that view it's supposed to rotate CW. Now as the spaced out washers come from below the magnet they get attracted by a big force as proven on your balance experiment. The distance between the hoops should remain constant until the moment the washers arrive at the middle of the magnet. At this point the distance between the hoops will start to shrink very rapidly thus bringing the washers together. But the magnet will still want to keep them in the field. But as you've experimentally proven the force is weaker than they were spaced out and thus the washers manage to escape. While coming back the hoop distance expands again and pulls them apart and the process restarts.

I have verified the second principle of operation for the Perpendicular Magnetics Motor.
When the moving square elements are in contact or near contact (.003") with the upper bars, the repulsion between the moving elements is reduced to near zero and actually becomes an attraction force between the elements when the elements are in side to side contact. When the upper and lower bars are moved apart, the elements go into repulsion. Also, the upper and lower bars move apart with less work when the moving elements are together as compared to when they are repelled and separated as illustrated in our past video. This opens up the basic system for overunity design only limited by ones imagination. I will make a video later tonight when I have someone to help as it takes two to make the video.
See attached pictures. I can not express the importance of this technology.
Butch LaFonte
See video at > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAxbOQ3nM8w&feature=channel_page
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Butch I have a rotor design in mind that uses the balance experiment you did on youtube. Although it does not use the fanner repulsion but can be incorporated. But I just wanted to keep it as simple and effective as possible. Sure you can convince a lot of people that step by step there's a net energy gain, but everyone wants to see a self resetting runner in the end  .

The design I have is 3d in nature so I'm going to give sketchup a go and try to make a rendition of it.

Edit: Design is attached below. I have to admit that it has many unfinished parts as I got too lazy  . Even the spacing of the guiding hoops is not correct. But this is the main idea. First of all from that view it's supposed to rotate CW. Now as the spaced out washers come from below the magnet they get attracted by a big force as proven on your balance experiment. The distance between the hoops should remain constant until the moment the washers arrive at the middle of the magnet. At this point the distance between the hoops will start to shrink very rapidly thus bringing the washers together. But the magnet will still want to keep them in the field. But as you've experimentally proven the force is weaker than they were spaced out and thus the washers manage to escape. While coming back the hoop distance expands again and pulls them apart and the process restarts.

Broli,
The washers in this layout need to be recompressed against a repulsion force and the net energy gain will be zero or a negative.
The repulsion force between the washers needs to be eliminated during the recompression of the washers, but present during the expansion for the system to be overunity.
See my post dated today, 3-6-09
Regards,
Butch

Butch, Broli
I just uploaded a file that you may bothe find interesting.
In it I discovered you could use "closed coil of bare or insulated (copper) wire" instead of steel washers.
This gives you other possibilities to think about!

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item249

I will complete the video tomorrow, today my wife has me painting the living room and dining room.
Thanks,
Butch

Haha women. Trying to change the world but the wife is not happy with the wall color.

@AhuraMazda
Well, I went and found the article somewhere else.  It describes an early form of induction motor, what's so special about this?