I wonder why this hasn't gotten much or any coverage here yet. Mylow numbness? Or are you too busy doing your own replications already?

It bugs me that James doesn't add more magnets around the wheel, or spaces them a bit further to get continuous rotation. But he seems sincere (as did Mylow, of course), and planning to make this happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CWIUjHl1F4

I am no-one magnet expert, but the steel plates doing initial attractive work, and then a relling magnet to push the rim magnets away, it just makes so much sense to me.

It seems somewhat related to Howard Yu's work on a magnet-actuated gravity oscillator, where really the gravity part seems to only be there to not make the magnet track be noticed as much. Not sure I'm saying this right, but use of steel plates seems to be used to re-direct part of the flux, and this way kill the usual sticky spot.

Am I too gullable, for wanting to see something significant in the above video?

Thanks for your thoughts,

J

Cloxxki,
    I'd rather use the term hopeful as opposed to gullible.  Thanks for bringing to our attention.
    It certainly looks promising on the surface, however getting brief acceleration with a magnetic wheel has been done X thousand times before.  What nobody, including Mr. FreeMagneticEnergy has done is achieve continuous acceleration.  With every experiment I've witnessed, there has always been a 'sticky' spot which creates deceleration on each revolution. 
   What's not really clear in the videos is that the wheel must be brought through the sticky spot manually, and then he let's go and it begins to accelerate.  If the wheel could actually make a full revolution, you would see it slow down every time it approaches the plate (I think).
    I'm also not an expert, but I've researched and played with magnetic gates enough to know if it's possible, it's certainly not easy.  This is also why nobody has closed the loop on a SMOT ramp.
    I'm also 'hopeful' that there is a mechanism for getting useable work out of permanent magnets, but I admit it's just 'hope', I have not seen anything respectably demonstrated achieving unity - much less overunity.
    My personal belief is that if you could make a functioning magnetic gate, the acceleration would be fast, so fast that you better have thought of a mechanism to stop your wheel from accelerating from 0-1000 RPM's in a second.

Yea, I saw this a few days ago.  I thought it was interesting and started changing around my Mylow parts for this theory...  I'm not expecting much out of my build though.

Thanks for responding! Really looking forward to your findings. And especially of course, if and so, where the sticky spot is going to come from.

I can also imagine a sure self-runner to stop when the plate gets magnetized beyond a certain level.

Its so obvious that as soon as the wheel is completed with magnets all over it, it will refuse to move (even with a hand - the only source of free energy known to man).

I hope I'm not the only one here who has played with magnets on a wheel

What are the chances of him showing a video of that happening ?

Very good suggestion on that CD!
That's something even I could almost do. May have to glue a CD to a rollerblade bearing, buy some magnets and take things from there.

I find the CD glued on a PC fan a very good setup. PC fan rotates freely and has no inertia of its own. And you can bolt it down on anything if the magnets are too strong ...

As an added benefit, you can even use the PC fan to extract energy from a magnet motor! (Perhaps something like http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=6829.0 could boost the motor?)

Nice testing carbonc

this is cool!