Prajna
Fixing things for the love of it
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Not entirely sure I should post this here because it is sure to kick off a vigorous discussion but I have been contemplating a device that transmits power and may amplify the power during transmission. Yes, I understand your reaction but consider this:
We all know that when you bring two like magnetic poles together they repel. If, while they are repelling, we insert a magnetically permeable sheet between them they are attracted to the sheet. No arguments so far, I'm sure.
Please look at the following (very rough) sketch and then I'll explain it:
Ok, on the left is a metal rotor that has slots cut in it so that it resembles a disc with metal fingers around the periphery. When rotated the fingers pass between two opposing magnets that are fixed to levers. This will cause the levers to reciprocate as the fingers pass in and out of the space between the magnets. The other end of the levers have pins that run in grooves cut around a cylinder - you might consider it as a kind of double swash plate - causing the cylinder to rotate.
Now, I haven't built it yet, so I've done no testing but my feeling is that even accounting for drag on the finger disc from the magnetic field, it is the magnets that are powering the device and the finger disc is merely causing a form of flux switching.
What say you amazing engineers and brilliant bodger's?
We all know that when you bring two like magnetic poles together they repel. If, while they are repelling, we insert a magnetically permeable sheet between them they are attracted to the sheet. No arguments so far, I'm sure.
Please look at the following (very rough) sketch and then I'll explain it:
Ok, on the left is a metal rotor that has slots cut in it so that it resembles a disc with metal fingers around the periphery. When rotated the fingers pass between two opposing magnets that are fixed to levers. This will cause the levers to reciprocate as the fingers pass in and out of the space between the magnets. The other end of the levers have pins that run in grooves cut around a cylinder - you might consider it as a kind of double swash plate - causing the cylinder to rotate.
Now, I haven't built it yet, so I've done no testing but my feeling is that even accounting for drag on the finger disc from the magnetic field, it is the magnets that are powering the device and the finger disc is merely causing a form of flux switching.
What say you amazing engineers and brilliant bodger's?