MXLO Magnet Motor Open Sourcing Project

Summary: This open sourcing project sponsored by Pure Energy Systems, based on a design by MXLO, commenced Mar. 3, 2004 and was active for about a month. At least 14 (8 verified) replications were built, none of which worked, proving that MXLO plans are neither easy nor complete, contrary to what they insinuate on their site, which now redirects to the U.S. government's renewable energy site. On July 10, a hint about shielding was given that was not contained in the plans.

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- Neweid(?)
Built; not working
- tip_alias
- Joe Friday
- Ken Hegemann
- Chris H.
- Dann McCreary
- Tero Ranta
- Retrorocket59
- Wayne Jones
- Ed Anderson
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Tero Ranta's Replication of the MXLO Magnetic Motor

Modification: drilled holes for screws to hold ring magnets in place, rather than gluing them as specified in the plans.

photos

Finished Building: Photos; doesn't work yet

From: "TeroRanta" <tero.ranta@bigfoot.com>

To: <pes_mxlo@yahoogroups.com>

Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 1:12 PM

Subject: [pes_mxlo] Tero's MXLO built, not running yet

Hi,

I have finished the building of the MXLO motor, please see the photos
in the Files section (tero folder). I followed the templates and
other instructions carefully, but decided to use plastic screws
instead of super glue to mount the ring magnets on the stator plates
so that the configuration can be played with. I could easily try to
decrease the air gap between rotor and stator by putting the magnets
on the inside of the stator plates for example.

Base, aluminum strip and rotor

40 mm aluminum strip glued to base,
nylon bearing bolted to base, nylon
rod screwed with nylon screw to
Plexiglas rotor, 12mmx6mm ceramic
(ferrite) magnets glued to shallow holes
drilled on rotor.

M6x25mm nylon screws, N38 3/4" ring magnets
with 7mm holes, short section of rubber tube
used as bushings.

Plexiglas stator drilled and taped (M6),
N38 3/4" ring magnets bolted to stators
with M6 x 25mm nylon screws.

Red = north
Blue = south

I have played with the motor for some time, but I can't get it to run
yet. However, I feel that with proper adjustment and patience it
could run some day (not sure whether one can make it running with the
current rotor).

Actually the stator fields do not seem to affect the rotor magnets
very much. I have the feeling that the ceramic (ferrite) 12mmx6mm
magnets I used for the rotor are too weak, or the air gap between the
rotors and the stator magnets is too large. I used 3/4" x 1/4" x 1/8"
N38 ring magnets for the stators. I did try to put some small Neo
buttons on top of the rotor magnets, but then the rotor started
cogging too much.

Thanks,
Tero

Materials Ordered

From: "TeroRanta" <tero.ranta@bigfoot.com>

To: <pes_mxlo@yahoogroups.com>

Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:02 AM

Subject: [pes_mxlo] Ring magnet source found

I just got an email from www.gaussboys.com that the ring magnets I
ordered for this project were shipped. They have 3/4" x 1/4" x 1/8"
nickel plated N38 rings for $0.94.

http://www.gaussboys.com/product_info.php/products_id/39

Ps. I have bought the plans as well and can't wait to get all the
parts together to try to replicate the MXLO device. My almost
finished Calloway/Bowman motor is currently on hold as I'm waiting
for plastic gears to replace the heavy steel ones and also because
this new MXLO device seems to be extremely interesting yet easy to
replicate.

Thanks,
Tero (from Finland)

MXLO Magnet Motor Open Sourcing Project

Tero Ranta's Replication of the MXLO Magnetic Motor

Finished Building: Photos; doesn't work yet

Materials Ordered

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