What I’m looking for in this post is information about magnets in general and the obstacles in constructing a magnet motor.

What I’m trying to do is to come up with a way to generate electricity with a device made from off-the-shelf parts. The device must not require outside energy to run. These parts need to have other important uses in industry so they can not be taken off the market by the forces that do not want to see our dependence on fossil fuels and the electric company obliterated. If I can find a way to accomplish this I will not patent it nor will I try to make tons of money by licensing it to manufacturers. I will freely give the plans for construction away to anyone who wants to apply it for their own uses.

So, magnet motors look like they might meet the above criteria. But one thing I’ve noticed is that the magnets, when put in opposition to one another, lose their magnet properties. magnets might still work if there is any way for a home user to re-magnetize their magnets. But the equipment to do that looks to be very expensive and not for home use but for industrial. Especially the equipment to re-magnetize rare earth magnets.

The gate seems to be the biggest hold-up to keeping a flywheel spinning. I believe I’ve got that problem solved and am now constructing a working model. To me, the solution seems to be removing the stators from the flywheel as the gate comes up, then putting it back once the gate has passed. I believe this can be accomplished by using a second wheel with stronger magnets than the stators and fixed position magnets on the flywheel to raise the stators back into place. I’m going to attempt to get the second wheel to hold the stators, which will be on hinged arms, up during the rotation. There will be an empty space on the lower wheel where there are no magnets to hold the stators up and will be in the same place as the gate on the wheel above it with the fixed position magnets on it. I believe the empty space will allow the stator to drop down out of place as the gate arrives and then shove the stator back up into place once the gate has passed. In this way I could place several stators around the wheel so that several will continue to rotate the flywheel each time one of them drops out of place at the gate. The more of these flywheels on the vertical shaft, the more power I could generate.

But the problem of the magnets losing their magnetism is still there. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this so we have a source of energy that does not give out after a while? I suppose you could send the magnets back to the factory to be magnetized, which might be the only solution. Or, perhaps the equipment can be bought to re-magnetize the magnets if a group of people using these magnets chips in for it.

Another thing I’m looking into is using ferrous metal on the flywheel that would be attracted to the stator magnet rather than attaching opposing magnets to the wheel. If I place flat pieces around the wheel at increasing height levels the stationary magnet (stator) might attract the ever taller pieces until the tallest comes around. The last piece (tallest) might be shielded so as to slide past the magnet before the wheel again rotates to the shortest metal pieces, repeating the rotation. Or, perhaps I could bump the magnet away from the wheel so it doesn’t hold up on the last metal piece. Several magnets could be placed around the wheel to keep the rotation going once the dead space with no magnets passes beneath one of the stators.

Would the magnet still give out eventually if there is no other magnet in opposition to it? Does the act of attracting metal weaken the magnetic field eventually?

If I can get the permanent magnets to rotate a flywheel it might be possible to add electromagnets to increase the horse power. But first thing is first, I need to get the magnet motor going. Any advice or info would be appreciated. I’ve looked at just about every magnet motor on U-Tube and that’s where I came up with my plan to remove the stator from the rotation as the gate arrives.