Nice to see you in here dudeman750,  (He's been my best friend for 20 years or so.  Initially thought I was crazy when I told him I had solved the world's energy crisis)

Everyone understand that the "wall" force will not increase even if we double or triple the diameter of the set up so we can hang more weight on it? 

She'll run eventually if not on this diameter.

Dudeman750 just wants to skip ahead to the electromagnets that eliminate the wall altogether.

Agreed but you'll need the right variables. So if it doesn't run it might be because of some variable not being in sync with the rest.

The electromagnets do not accelerate the wheel.  They only replace the stator magnets and fire the perminant mass switch magnets up their respective guide tubes.  This should eliminate the "wall" alltogether.

We have plenty of power to work the electromagnets.  You can always scale the diameter of the wheel up and add more mass switches to create larger output torque = generated electricity.  Complete scalability is one of the beauties of this design.  The question is:

Does replacing the "wall" associated with the perminant magnet stator magnets with the power drain of electromagnets and a firing circuit for stator magnets create more or less efficient conversion of Gravity to power?  I think ultimately the electromagnets will be more efficient (again, I am hesitant about my electro-magnetic theory recall).

Anyone else care to weigh in on the electromagnet stator magnet possiblities?

Thanks,

M.

(rolls on the floor laughing)
So now we are reinventing the Bedini motor, or any number of devices that attempt to capture and use BEMF.

mondrasek, have you done very much reading about the topics you are discussing?

Because it seems like you are "discovering" ideas that have already been discovered and explored, and there are actually threads on this very site that discuss all of them that you have come up with so far.

Next you will propose using the electrical output of your (non-existent) generator to electrolyze water so that we can run our cars on it.

But this idea, too, has been out there for a long time.

(It is actually extremely difficult to come up with a genuinely new and original idea. SO don't feel too badly when you learn that yours, well, just aren't.)

So, so far we have a Besseler-Quinn-Bedini wheel. Let's add some more stuff. If you rotate the stator mags at the right time, in the opposite direction from the way they would rotate if they were simply geared, the rotor will experience a push-pull as the rotor magnets swing past the stators. Conversely, this same effect could be achieved with a reversing (not just an on-off) electromagnet.
So we would be building a Besseler-Quinn-Bedini-OCMPMM wheel.

Do I have to post the links, or can you be bothered to look on this site for them yourself?

Your story is not credible. You claim to be an engineer with 15+ years of experience, working for a major engineering firm, yet you do not seem to have access to a machine shop, and you made the incredibly basic blunder of trying to use aluminum tubes for your magnets in your first attempt. And you spelled "eddy currents" wrong. Etc. Etc.

There has been something that I have been thinking about for a while, and it may be useful for this application.  I saw a product called magswitch on the internet.  It somehow mechanically turns a magnet on and off.  I don't know much about magnetizm, but could this process be used to turn the magnet on at just the right time to push the stator up?

Does anyone know how that product works.  It could be useful for a few different applications.

@ mondrasek: please do the following: look at the top of the page here. You will see a "search" button.
Click on that button. In the "search for" window that you see, enter "capture back EMF" without the quotes. Then click Search or simply hit "enter".
Also you may want to search for "pulse motor" and "Bedini".
Have fun.

Tinselkoala,

Do you have to be so rude? You obviously don't understand what is being discussed here. And what does spelling have to do with anything.. this thread was started on a concept. Mondresek is NOT an EE and I myself only have associates degree in EE and many years since classes and theory. The wheel is powered only by gravity, the magnetism only a vehicle for moving the mass of the magnets around to create the out of balance wheel. We were discussing using em to drive the mass of the magnet up to create more efficient wheel, reduce the opposition from the driving magnets, and asking for expertise in design of such a circuit as not to detract from the efficiency of the final output of the wheel. Both Mondresek and I have access to many machine shops as the area we live in is quite the industrial hub of our country. However, he was hoping someone could model this on computer first rather than many hours tinkering with "real" models. We don't have access to software that can do the physics involved with such a machine. He was hoping someone we contact might. If you take a minute and actually look at the "out of balance wheel" that he is proposing, I implore you to tell us why it won't work. That is what we are waiting for.