Originally posted by rickoff
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'Dragging' is perhaps not the best term to describe what I'm talking about. As the North Pole magnet group group approaches the stator it will be attracted to the moving stator and if the stator happened to be moving faster than the rotor is travelling, the magnet group would in effect be pulled / dragged along by the stator magnet. I make a surmise about the stator travelling faster than the rotor because if the receeding South Pole magnet group is made to accelerate by the action of the North Pole side of the stator magnet, then I think at some point in its arc of travel it must be travelling faster than the rotor. If I'm right with this, then it follows that energy is being input to the system when operated by hand. Whether or not the energy required to accelerate the rotor can be achieved without external stimulus, that is derived purely from its stored kinetic energy, remains to be demonstrated.
Hoppy
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