Aeronaut wrote:
The YT vid of the Minato motor looks very similar to one I built last year from a lazy susan and a bunch of tiny N-42 magnets, but was trying to power mechanically instead of inductively. If the article I just read is accurate, Minato has an inductive motor running on 20% of the power that it should be. What am I missing here?
afaik it uses a mechanical trick: by physically moving each magnet at particular parts of the cycle, it allows gravity to assist. the result is, for low overall torque, an efficiency boost. it ends up making a good fan motor.
