fascinating post!
This reminds me of that simple experiment with a 12V car battery, a couple
of bearing races and a shaft. Basically, when a heavy current is passed
through the ball races of the bearings a high speed motor is created. Its
an awsome sight to see a shaft, mounted in the pair of bearing, rotate at
huge rpm.
The principle of operation behind this motor action is as unique as the
device itself. I had the opportunity to discuss this subject with Stefan
Marinov a few years ago. Stefan had done some considerable research on the
topic and offered what I thought was a beautifully simple explanation: As
current passes through the ball bearings they heat up and expand
perpendicular to their tracks. This creates a pressure in the bearing race
that is relieved by rotation of the system.
Bill.
At 01:49 3/04/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Folks!
>
>This could well be an April fools joke, but I think it might not be. It
>offers a different insight on how Searls self-rotating magnetic bearings
>worked. I have cleaned it up a bit.
>
>It is strangely connected to an earlier post about cooling magnets to
>produce a higher magnetic flux density. Perhaps that is what triggered
>the comment from the person who read it in the archives or on the list.
>-------------
>The rotation of Searl Bearings are due to a pyro-magnetic effect
>demonstrated by heating the regressive side of the magnetized cylinder
>with any heat source i.e., propane torch or induced eddies currents from
>a strong magnetic field.
>
>The bearing will roll towards the cooler, thus more highly magnetized
>direction. I have demonstrated this effect in countless Searl bearing
>experiments. Searl bearings simply roll toward the coolest side and in
>effect derive power from atmospheric convection.
>
>The problem being that the bearings are too expensive to manufacture.
>Using convective currents to power the Searl Effect Generator is very
>poor.
>
>Far superior operation of the device can be had when constructed with a
>Faraday Dynamo plenum chamber that is forced into oscillation by
>convective currents passing by jet holes on the periphery.
>
>This effect causes alternate implosions in the plenum chamber which
>produces more and more heat as the plenum oscillates against an
>electromagnet. This oscillation induces an even stronger up draft until
>a very large self-sustaining convective current forms around the device.
>Potential power output of these implosive oscillators is astronomical
>and far cheaper then the Searl disc to construct.
>---------------------
>This sounds very close to the description by David Hamel of his original
>drum experiment, where he had many magnets, suspended on their own
>fields but allowed to spin because they were supported also on needle
>type bearings.
>
>When the magnets were spun, the unit was sealed, hours later, an
>enormous amount of energy built up, causing the unit to implode once it
>reached a critical velocity. This is what led Hamel to develop his disk
>version. Then later the idea of governing the rotation so that the
>device could be used as a self-running power source. So I think this
>fellow is presenting some great and highly novel information here.
>--
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