Mylow Magnetic Motor Update

/Field Note

Update: This has now been proved to be a hoax. See “Mylow Magnetic Motor Hoax Revealed.”

Thanks to Alan Sterling’s updates and reporting on developments with the “Mylow” magnetic motor, a number of people have been working to replicate this. And while some have used the opportunity to raise even more skepticism, it turns out that building a motor that will work the way Mylow has reportedly demonstrated in his videos is a little more challenging that it first appears.

Background: An inventor from Chicago who goes by the pseudonym, “Mylow”, appears to have a knack for getting all-magnet motor designs to work that are based on the efforts of the late Howard Johnson. And he is intent on giving his design away to the planet in an open source manner.

On March 17, 2009, he posted his first video showing full rotation of the “Stonehenge model”, that Johnson worked on in the early 1980s to demonstrate to the U.S. Patent Office. (See earlier Mylow magnet motor report.) Mylow purposely kept his replication as close as possible to Johnson’s design — per the photos, not the patent.

He has also appears to have replicated the linear track design into a rotary design, using bar magnets around the perimeter of the rotor disc. In all, he appears to have come up with 6 different variations of magnets that have worked. The effect seams to be a function of the relationship between the stator and rotor magnets, and the spacing between the rotor magnets and magnet sets.

Project Status (PESWiki)
“We are hopeful that we now have all the information needed to replicate this effect. As of May 6, 2009, noone  has yet accomplished that. This is partially due to the difficulty of sourcing proper magnets. However, it also appears that getting the proper configuration of magnets with the substitute magnets has proven to be quite difficult.”

Because of difficulties in initial replication of his motor, Mylow posted the following video to explain his positioning of the magnets:

As well, Alan Sterling has written up what Mylow told him about  positioning his magnets:

This evening, Mylow phoned me and shared with me “the secret” of how he positions his magnets on the rotors to get his motors to work.  With this information disclosed, he expects that a bunch of the people working on replications should be able to be successful in their replications in a very short period of time.

As mentioned above, he said, no two magnets are the same. Each magnet needs to be individually treated.

It isn’t really plausible to post a template and follow it.

First, he glues one bar magnet down. He runs it under the stator to get its feel (I didn’t quite understand what is accomplished in this step).

Then he takes the second magnet. He holds it in place next to the first one with his thumb. He then runs them under the stator to feel how much it cogs (cog = resistance). He then moves the magnet one direction just a little bit, then he runs it by the stator again to see if the cog increases or decreases. He keeps doing this until he finds that place where the cog goes away.

Mylow thinks getting some kind of non-magnetic clamp would help in this process.

Once he finds that no-cog spot, he then scribes a line with a pencil on the disc to mark the place the magnet goes, and then glues the magnet in place. It is very important that you be able to glue the magnet right at that position, so be sure your markings are such that you will be able to put the magnet back in position.

As a double check, when the positioning is right, you should get that pendulum effect he shows in one of his tutorial videos. And the pendulum effect (rocking back and forth when pushes, like a spring) should take place directly under the stator, not to one side or the other.

He then repeats these steps with the next magnet; then the next.

As no two magnets are the same, no two spacings will be the same.

By the time he gets to the 5th magnet, he says he starts noticing a strange effect. The repulsive effect of the first magnet as the magnets go toward the stator begins to dissipate. The repulsion effect becomes a pull as the 2nd and 3rd magnets pass under the stator.

By the time you add the 6th magnet, if your bearing friction is low enough, you may get the SMOT device effect that he showed on May 13.

He said that by the time he got to the 7th, 8th and 9th magnet, that there was a bu-bump bounciness that began to come into the rotation. By the time he had the 12th magnet down, the bounciness was very pronounced. A cog had come into the middle of the set of magnets.

He then glued in the 13th magnet and then removed the middle magnet, so there were now two sets of six magnets, and the rotation became smooth.

Howard Johnson’s Original Magnet Motors
John Bedini, as support for Mylow,  posted a video showing Howard Johnson’s original linear motor and the original magnet motor.

More Background
On the evening of March 23, 2009, Sterling D. Allan conducted a live, 1-hour interview with Mylow as part of the Free Energy Now radio series. Al “Witherspoon”, a former associate of Howard Johnson’s called in, expressing his approval of Mylow’s model and open source approach. Living not far away, he said he saw Howard Johnson’s motor running, and that Howard Johnson told him that he thought it would be someone [like Mylow] who would successfully replicate the motor.

Free Energy News Interview with Mylow 3/23/09 Part 5/6

To access the full interview on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ka_aHuk-4

For more information see  http://pesn.com/2009/05/16/9501541_How_Does_Mylow_Do_It/