{"id":57,"date":"2020-03-19T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/uncategorized\/page-5-trying-out-magnetic-outer-stops\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T15:25:00","slug":"page-5-trying-out-magnetic-outer-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/reactionless-propulsion\/page-5-trying-out-magnetic-outer-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Page 5, Trying out Magnetic Outer Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have been experimenting with the pendulum weight & stops (\u201cplanet traps\u201d). <\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I have increased the weight of the pendulum weights from 8 oz to 1.25 lbs. and made them a bit different shaped (Version 2).<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I found that the inner stop\/trap is easily accomplished by letting the weight contact the sun gear\u2019s axle and the addition of a movement limiter welded to the planet gear, which keeps the pendulum from swinging too far.<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I tried several ways to make an effective outer stop\/planet trap, from allowing the weight to hit a fixed stop to using a curved \u201cguard\u201d which limits movement & guides the weight into the correct position for full release. None of the physical contact types had the desired effect as of yet & I do not believe that having the pendulum weight \u201cslip\u201d through a friction brake (as suggested by Roy Thornson) will be much better.<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Using a magnetic brake seems to be effective. Using rectangular ceramic magnets from Harbor Freight, 1 magnet is glued to the top of each pendulum (increasing the weight slightly) and 1 or 2 magnets glued or strapped to a 2\u201d wide flat piece of steel which is fastened to the sun gear axle & adjusted approximately 180 degrees from where the weight contacts the inner stop\/trap.<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Using the solid inner trap & the magnetic outer trap a single rotating assembly actually has enough power to move the unit as well as it did with 2 rotating assemblies.<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The next phase will be to \u201csmooth\u201d the movement:<\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The 2nd<\/sup> rotating assembly ring gear was re-timed to 90 degrees (1\/4 turn) out of phase with the 1st<\/sup> assembly. Now the motion is not perfectly smooth but is much less jerky. Perhaps using 4 rotating units each progressing another 90 degrees will smooth it further and allow for forward motion with negligible \u201cfall back\u201d between pulses of power which would allow it to travel up an incline because of decreased \u201cfall back\u201d.<\/o:p><\/div>\n
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March 19, 2020 I have been experimenting with the pendulum weight & stops (\u201cplanet traps\u201d). I have increased the weight of the pendulum weights from 8 oz to 1.25 lbs. and made them a bit different shaped (Version 2). I found that the inner stop\/trap is easily accomplished by letting the weight contact the sun … Continue reading “Page 5, Trying out Magnetic Outer Stops”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,10,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brandson-roy-thornson","category-ezkl","category-grassroots-mechanic-movement","category-plug-in-hybrid","category-reactionless-propulsion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stclairtech.tech\/grassrootsmechanicmovement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}