Re: Lawnmower engine experiment

Tim v.d.Hoff ( (no email) )
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:42:12 +0100

Hi Jerry.

Correct be if I'm wrong, but doesn't this look like Bessler's wheel??

Tim

Jerry W. Decker wrote:

> Hi Folks!
>
> The following was posted by Tim Vaughn on the freenrg list;
> > In around 1985, a gentleman named Ken McNiel who organized one of
> > the first free energy conference told me that he managed to get a fly
> > wheel magneto from a lawn mower (Briggs and Stratton) to self run
> > for over 4 hours by using two samarium cobalt magnets in attraction
> > mode one on the edge of a rotating disc and one fixed.
> > The magneto coil was stationary. At precisely the right moment the
> > points (contacts) on the magneto were opened and this caused a back
> > EMF that created a push from an electromagnet that was enough to push
> > the attracting magnets past center to get it to next the cycle and
> > this, he said, would repeat indefinitely.
> > The device was difficult to adjust and he tried to build a bigger one
> > by robbing parts from the working model (a big no-no). He was not
> > able to get the bigger model to work. I don't know if ever managed
> > or even tried to get the original to work again.--
>