Permanent magnetic motors would they work combining old and new technology?

Question

draw this, 5 evenly spread lines coming out from a center point each tipped with south poled magnets then have 4 evenly spread shapely curved double poled magnets(north-south) on the outer. Using the right maths and materials this pattern could be redefined in a program to make MANY different types of magnetic motors.

The right combination of old and new technology with enough static energy to overcome part of the laws of diminishing returns may some day power something usable.

just something i come up with years ago.

Does anyone out there know any thing about this.Would this really work? Josh martin Mandurah!!!

Answer 1

Josh,

That's a very intresting idea!  There is a bit of a problem, though.  Without a rotational input, the motor will eventually seek an equilibrium point (a spot where the cumulative attractive and repulsive forces all cancel), and will stop right there.  The issue is that the outer magnets, having both north and south poles will produce different forces on your south pole magnets coming from the center.  There will be a point in the rotation where attraction and repulsion will be equal, and there will be no torque.  Movement of the "armature" a bit one way or another will cause it to want to "center" back to that point.

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If you put each of the 4 outer magnets very close together, then you have effectively created a toroidal magnet.

You can picture each of the 4 magnets as a small arrow, with the tail the S pole and the head the N pole. Now if you make a loop of these arrows, you’ve represented a toroidal (donut-shaped) magnet. At each head, there’s also a tail, so no point is more N-like or S-like. Therefore a toroidal magnet has no poles.  And with no poles, you will get no rotational force.

Answer 2

Sounds like yet another perpetual motion machine.

But your description is too vague to really tell.

Remember, you cannot get something for nothing. You cannot generate power without some sort of energy input.