The Levitron; Overunity in a box?
szymanek@connect.ab.ca
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 19:17:07 -0700
Hello everyone!
I generally stick to working on recreating David Hamel's machines, but
certainly am open to other ideas. This idea had occurred to me before,
and when I showed one of my friends my Hamel spinner, he told me about a
guy who he knew who had tried it.
He told me that he knew a guy who put a levitron in a vaccuum.
He said it has been going for a very long time (I think years) It makes
perfect sense, think about it. The gyroscopic
motion of the spinner (the top) keeps it from flipping over, thus it
levitates
while spinning at a high RPM, the only thing that stops it is air
friction, right?
Well I don't have a levitron, but I thought I would tell everyone about
this so anyone with a levitron can try this.
So hear is what I suggest. Get your levitron going really good, then
quickly put a glass jar (a bell jar) over it, and seal it. Maybe putting
a rubber ring on a plywood
base would be the best, then just put the jar on it and suck the air
out of the jar with a vaccuum pump. If a fairly good vaccuum was created
the spinner shouldn't stop.
No air friction+no mechincial friction=Perpetual motion!
Also the spining top is a magnet, and it's spinning well over 1000 rpm.
See where I am going? Put pick up coils around the outside of the jar,
level with the spining top. Now you should be able to draw a small
amount of current from the thing, a supply that should be infinite.
I don't have a levitron or vaccuum pump, but I am talking to my physic's
teacher and he intersted, so maybe we will try it out some day.
For now anyone intersted give this a shot, if done right I don't see why
it wouldn't work. All I ask is that you freely share your finding with
everyone, just as I have freely shared this idea with you. Lets see what
happens.
-Justin Szymanek