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Re: MOC MAGLEV Prototype at BW
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lugnet.trains
Date: 
Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:36:39 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.announce.moc, Mark Benz writes:

Now all it needs is propulsion!

Could a wheel of rotating magnets propel it?

Right now you have all the magnets polarised the same, presumably... if you
did something with spacing, can you have the magnets alternate? Have to
think about this a bit... but with altnerating magnets there's something for
the wheel to rotate toward.

But you need to keep the same polarisation to make the train float.  How
would you stop the suspension magnets from snapping forward onto the
alternating ones?

All I can think of is a third row of alternating magnets which your wheel
works along.  I still doubt you'd get smooth movement though.  As it is,
does it float freely back and forth?  Or does it tend to settle between the
magnets?

Jason J Railton



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  Re: MOC MAGLEV Prototype at BW
 
(...) Ya, that's the problem. my thinking is that it's not a 1-1 alternation but maybe 2 in one dir for 1 the other, and the magnets on the car body (which would have to be a lot longer body to allow for more magnets) are staggered so that a (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: MOC MAGLEV Prototype at BW
 
(...) Could a wheel of rotating magnets propel it? Right now you have all the magnets polarised the same, presumably... if you did something with spacing, can you have the magnets alternate? Have to think about this a bit... but with altnerating (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.trains)

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