Sorry to be the one to break the bad news, but the forces do balance out.  The weak repulsion going in, and the weak attraction on the way out,  add up to balance against the stronger pull going through.  This type of magnet system  is just a ring of magnets with all like poles pointed inwards, and is sometimes referred to as a bedini gate.  These types of magnet systems are fun to play with though, and in repulsion can behave like an invisible rubber membrane.

No way.


Show us!


TS

I'll try to make a video later tonight. I'm pretty busy right now though. Hint: obviously you can levitate a magnet over another magnet, by mutual repulsion. But did you know you can also levitate a magnet, under another magnet, and have it maintain a fixed position against gravity?

@Techstuf
Perhaps you should re-read your last comment and tell me who should be embarrassed.

And here it is ( or very soon will be) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNaxoKkGTRM

Tinsel tried to explain it well,
but if you watch the original video there are 4 stator magnet rings which could
be different sizes and which might have different polarities, so to make an
asymmetically flux and thus it seems from the video,
that he really needs not to push it much at all into the gate and
it flies out with pretty much velocity.

So I still disagree to the guys who say that the forces are symmetrical.

With the right iron core pieces inside the flux gate you can make such
a setup very asymmetrical and thus get acceleration into one direction.

Regards, Stefan.

So I still disagree to the guys who say that the forces are symmetrical.

With the right iron core pieces inside the flux gate you can make such
a setup very asymmetrical and thus get acceleration into one direction.

Regards, Stefan

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbqsWOK0uMo


Given that the best demonstration of the flux gate thus far has been given by Howard Johnson himself, I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of repeat attempts have mistaken force over time asymmetry for actual force asymmetry.  Those who've been stubborn enough to have bumped ceilings with HJ, have no doubt glimpsed past the event horizon into a veritable Laurentian abyssal of composite field complexities.  I think that if anyone working with magnets were to test the radius of actual field influence of each magnet, they may come away with a newfound respect for 'near surface' dynamics.   What appears more impressive with a composite field flux gate is the fact field asymmetry is more prevalent.  Again, I refer the reader back to Peregrinus.  A simple cone shaped neo is, by nature of it's existence, an asymmetrical field generator. 

In no way do I feel that HJ's flux gate is a dead end.  Only that it is inefficient for the purposes of conventional power generation.  Now, as a vehicle for unconventional power generation, it's potential for efficiency looks much brighter.

HJ inspired the expression:  "90 degree rule"  referring to perpendicular field interactions as a basis for the flux gate research.  What becomes readily apparent is that the system prefers movement in one direction, but what is occuring is actually more complex.  Oversimplified, one might use an obtuse triangle for comparison.  Despite how it might feel, It takes the same amount of energy to push a weight up the left side as the right. Again, of course the triangle concept is not a direct analog....however, one gets the idea.


(http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/38600/38600/Triwent7_38600_lg.gif)


Howard appears to have produced a self powered unit, although I personally have never seen a demo of convincing run time. The timing of flux gate systems is so diabolical and misleading, that I'm fairly certain it ran finicky and produced very little, if any, usable power.


That's the potatoes of it.  The meat comes after one realizes that he need not settle on a wheel that barely turns.....and asks: what can be done with a wheel that provides so little resistance despite being spun at high speed with stator and rotor magnets in close proximity?


TS

It appears that Stefan's site is being 'handled' and as such, it has proven difficult for me to post helpful information here.  Even my general inferences now seem to invoke the censors....


I may endeavor to get information to the web via another channel.


TS

Several of my posts have disappeared upon hitting the post button, or the site won't load....or the site will load fine until I hit the reply button.  These kinds of harrassments have followed me from site to site, so when I use the term "handled" I am referencing TPTB.  Of course, when I am posting literally anything BUT important information....the posts usually go through.  Which seems indicative of real time go/no go analysis. The myriad 'intrigues' I've experienced go way beyond chance 'glitches', so I'm positive that my internet interactions are being 'handled' somewhere enroute.  I've had blue screens upon submitting posts, keyboard lockups, resulting in multiple driver reinstalls.  Hard drive failures, Mobo failures, monitor driver unloads....ALL at critical moments.


At this point, I think somebody should do a remake of the miniseries "V", only change a few subplot lines, names and characters and call it:


"Z"



TS