Something that has crossed my mind is how Howard was able to to get those magnets with small enough tolerances, so his perfectly calculated shapes and orders of the magnets made this motor working.

Howard's educational progress is clearly evident in the later, linear patent model.  It seems plausible to me that his work was stifled a bit, by whom and for what purpose is arguably considerable.  I feel that, should he have taken a slightly different path in his research, he would have made quite a leap in realized efficiency.

The funny thing about magnets is that although they can stand being alone, they prefer having close company so they can truly be as one.  As we all know, familiarity breeds contempt, so then the question becomes how to make a friend's comings and goings of benefit to all.....an interesting guest should be able to make frequent visits and still never wear out it's welcome, by sticking around to long.



TS

you know I never miss a good party 

CLaNZeR!  Sean, glad to see you - I went to your website last night looking for an email address for you (to no avail) hoping to spark your interest in replication - seeing as you are one of THE PREMIER replicators around!  What say you?

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sterlinga -
Thanks Alan for posting all that info at peswiki,  Having an uncluttered listing of the relevant info is great!
The fact that you are interested is a great asset.

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I would think a critical aspect would be the magnet spacing:
The rotor magnets need to be spaced relative to the spacing between the N/S faces of the u-shaped stator magnet.
So if using different magnets, one should keep that spacing relative.

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I simulated those magnets in Femm.

Would you care to post pics/.jpgs of your FEMM simulations please?

http://www.allmagnetics.com/alnicochannel.htm - possible source for alnico channel horseshoes

I'll ask Mylow if he thinks this site magets will work.

Mylow responds: "omg yes as long as the magnetization is through the thinkness and longer lenth.wow these are the magnets that can make the motor work."

Hi;

I will summarize what I think I am seeing in his videos;

Look, In general what he is demonstrating is *not* supposed to work because
“sticky spots” should form in the *whole array* on the disc. One question is
whether the aluminum disk and the aluminum cross bar is affecting the
units operation. Perhaps the low power magnetics and the aluminum disk
are not allowing sticky spots to fully form.

:S:MarkSCoffman

Dude !

Good point about the aluminum - -
i was thinking the same thing myself. Although non magnetic  - aluminum is an excellent electrical conductor and the electrons in that disk are most certainly plenty nervous about the field of those magnetics as they move about.
Maybe that is why it works !

This kind of array SHOULD exhibit sticky spots and yet there seems to be none apparent. 
What is happening ?
Most interesting wheel i 've seen in a long while.
 
i  think i might make a low cost attempt at replication myself. 
Love the simplicity . .
any cat can do  ..

Puuurrfect reason to buy yet even MORE magnets ..
miss meow will not be pleased again i fear . .
We already have enough magnets to stick used transmissions to our fridge.

Queue

Or, maybe the guy's just burnt out, not sure what to do and not used to all the requests, demands, and publicity.

It's been a whopping 24hrs since this came out and already he's answered several requests and given measurements. Have a little patience, man.

[also posted to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mylow_magmo and linked from the "latest developments section at http://peswiki.com/energy/MYLOW ]

Mylow just barely posted a video showing the rotor and stator magnets next to a Data Scan Ruler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeijLKkuj_c

It looks like the rotor magnets are metric.

2 cm long x 1 cm x 1 cm, slightly tapered in the inside of the channel.

The stator magnets (he uses only one in his motor) are not rectangular but arced.  It looks like they are 1-1/32 inch long, 55/64 inches wide, ~5/8 from the base to the top of the arc, and ~1/2 inch to the bottom of the arc from the base (oriented like an up-side-down U).

In other news, Mylow phoned me this evening to say that the stator magnet has now diminished in magnetism to the point that the motor is no longer turning.

He stopped by the place he goes to get the stator magnet remagnetized this afternoon, to get permission to give out their name and address.  The preferred that he not do that since they are doing this as a favor to him, and they only want to receive commercial orders, but under those conditions, they may still allow him to give out the info.  They also told him (paraphrasing), "We can't keep remagnetizing your magnet for you.  It costs us a lot of money to run that machine and to maintain the hydrogen both."  They've been giving him a break on the price they've been charging him.  I encouraged him to let them know what he is doing, to see his videos, to inspire them to continue to help him out and be part of history in the making.

He said the alnico magnets in the rotor don't seem to be losing their magnetism at all.  Just the iron stator magnets.  He's looking to replace the iron stator magnet with something else that doesn't demagnetize so easily.

Once it's running again, he's pondering maybe taking this to the media.

I should mention that Milow also posted a video showing a review of his drawings from when he was in highschool back in the 1980s. Shows some nice-looking drawings he made, including of how the Johnson motor could be integrated into an engine block of a vehicle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGAMUZCZZo

He was a pretty good draftsman, especially considering that he never took any drafting classes.

Sterling

sterlinga
Ask him if he could get the company that magnetizes his magnet to map the gauss on one of the rotor magnets. Such would go a long way with all of this.