Hey Duranza How's your setting behaving so far??, Mine is working as expected without the top!! I used my fingers to make it go in sequence ,  the satisfaction that Torbay might got out of his discovery had to be incredible ,Thank you Mr Torbay only a few hundred years of skepticism have been wiped out with your invention.....the main construction problems I have found are this:
 
Angles in the rotor magnets are critical in a way that they have to be at certain distance and angle according to your magnet strength because I was getting rejection in the opposite way at some point ,  therefore due to my crude construction simply the rejection was not enough I had to add a second half moon which increased rejection but then I noticed that leveling the stator magnets wasn't critical anymore, just don't let them stay too low in between other side magnets or they will lock it down, if they are not cut in angles to avoid interaction among them, mine were jumping ,now they are at rest with no problem, some rejection still there and efficiency  will be affected I'm sure, but I have no choice until I calculate for the top flywheel.

I had 7 ceramic magnets the big ones from radio shack 4.5 by 2  by 1 cm, trying to avoid the fatidic "6" , they were to close and I couldn't cut them in angles my Rotozip finally got burned out!! so taking away one solved the balancing sequencing angling of the lifter wheel etc. All of this might sound daunting but just realizing that a relatively small adjustment made it ok , reveals the potential efficiencies in this motor ..just my 2 cents.

Is working partially and with materials I already had which is remarkable and couldn't wait to let you now about it.......the top is next.

I hope I could be able to download your plans Jason. cause I only have the rhino 3 demo for designing, I've heard of Dan La Rochelle he sent me pics of the relationship of the Aztec calendar and the sacred matrix and the egyptians in the Hameltech forum years ago thanks again for it..... what a convenient thing to have those magnets available.
Anyway let us know duranza how much would it cost to manufacture one of this I want to power air conditioning for my mother whom is sick and my father at this point paralized due to brain embolism.........medical costs make payment of power something impossible in a 3rd world country power still ridiculously high accordingly to water levels as well, even if you get the air conditioner the power consumption a year is about 600 to 1000 dollars a year! they are enduring 120 Farenheit everyday now. Good Luck

Hi Everyone,

I was attempting to put a few last minute pieces and parts on the 3D model before putting out the pieces individually for download but I didn't have enough time to finish it off. But I did take some screenshots of the various parts and pieces for you all to check out. All I have left to complete is the rollers for the stator arms and to draw in the screws, nuts and bolts to hold everything together. I will then lay out the pieces on a 2D plane so I can give you all a good estimate of how much plastic you will need to fabricate it.

@ FredWalter:

I realize that the base is too big. The person who was supposed to be fabricating this model for me would be sectioning the base up into four chunks to machine and then put them together. The model was scaled to fit the size rotor magnets that we had available.

God Bless,
Jason O

Torbay's motor does a LOT of work just turning the rotor, topcap, and lifting ramp. Also, the lever style lifting mechanism seems to be a bit bulky, seems to me something far smaller could do the job, further reducing the weight the rotor has to carry.

When you are thinking about all that weight, think "flywheel".

Hi FredWalter,

I'm not sure how long it will take to make because the guy doing the work hasn't had the time to start fabricating it yet. But I can say that I made the cuts on most of the parts so that they could be cut almost all at once. The 3D model itself took me about 7 hours to draft up from start to finish.

The rotor cap in my drawing is 8" in diameter and the smaller hub pieces are 4" in diameter. How big of a cutting area can your CNC machine handle?

Quote from: gn0stik on May 27, 2006, 01:20:50 AM

Torbay's motor does a LOT of work just turning the rotor, topcap, and lifting ramp. Also, the lever style lifting mechanism seems to be a bit bulky, seems to me something far smaller could do the job, further reducing the weight the rotor has to carry.

When you are thinking about all that weight, think "flywheel".

Flywheels are perfectly balanced, which the torbay parts are obviously not. Not to mention, they take a long time to spin up.

At any rate, I like Jason's design a lot. Very nice. One question; Jason, do you think the angle of the cut on your stator magnets is enough to prevent interaction? Also I was looking at them, and I noticed you had what looked like a ceramic mag sandwiched between two neos, is that correct? What's the purpose of that?

Also a small wheel on top of your stator magnets might reduce friction on the topcap.

How big of a cutting area can your CNC machine handle?

I don't have any CNC machines at the moment. I do have a Sherline 2000 milling machine, which I want to CNC when I have time and workshop space. The specifications for Sherline's machines are here: http://www.sherline.com/specs.htm

If you could get the parts sized so that they could be constructed on a Sherline, then there would be thousands (or more) of CNC hobbiests across the USA that could make them.

For my Sherline 2000: x-travel 8.68", y-travel 7", z-travel 5.38"

Hi Everyone,

I was attempting to put a few last minute pieces and parts on the 3D model ....
Jason O

Hi Jason.
I think that the TOP (image004.gif) is different from the pictures that Omnibus sent us. You use the whole rotation to bring a popped up magnet back in line with the other magnets, and Torbay uses only a part of the rotation to bring the magnet back in line.
Regards,
Eric.