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Levitation & Transportation — Trike Vision
Watch this messy DIY experiment with an 8-inch disc levitating a 10-inch disc using permanent magnets. I share my trike vision, thoughts on Tesla coils for quantum levitation transportation, and why stability is so hard. Real bench talk only.
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- ▸Three outside magnets plus top and bottom discs create stable levitation with just a flick to spin
- ▸Top 8-inch disc pressing down reduces wobble and converts instability into possible forward momentum
- ▸Vision of a motorcycle trike that lifts using artificial environments inside dual-sided wheels
- ▸Tesla coils could be made quantum-size to generate floating energy pillows for transport
- ▸Permanent magnets are frustrating but a stepping stone until electromagnet pulsing circuits are built
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Papa Bale shares a hands-on magnetic levitation build using three outside magnets and stacked discs. The setup stabilizes a spinning 10-inch disc. He also talks about a wild vision for a flying trike and how Tesla coils could create energy pillows for real levitation transportation.
Key takeaways
- Three outside magnets plus top and bottom discs create stable levitation with just a flick to spin
- Top 8-inch disc pressing down reduces wobble and converts instability into possible forward momentum
- Vision of a motorcycle trike that lifts using artificial environments inside dual-sided wheels
- Tesla coils could be made quantum-size to generate floating energy pillows for transport
- Permanent magnets are frustrating but a stepping stone until electromagnet pulsing circuits are built
Short bench session on magnetic levitation that turned into a big vision talk. I got the 10-inch disc floating between an 8-inch top disc and base using three outside magnets. It spins with almost no input once stable. The real juice is the trike idea and where Tesla coil tech could take us. No clean voltage readings this time — just pure experiment mess.
Related on this site
- Magnetic Levitation on a Pole – Experiment 1: Push, Pull & Balance — Related earlier levitation test using pole for stability comparison
- Magnetic Levitation with Six Donut Magnets — Similar permanent magnet levitation approach with donut magnets
- Pulse Motor vs Bedini Motor: What's the Difference? — Connects to future electromagnet pulsing plans mentioned in transcript
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Okay so here it is the next experiment from the ground up we got an eight inch disc levitating a 10 inch disc which is being pushed down by an eight inch disc on top of that it's elevated a little bit so that it's just magnetic energy pressing on the disc and not so much the weight of the disc um you know laying on the disc so it'll spend easier wobble less then we got three outside magnets pushing in they're all set up so that it's pushing in elevating that 10 inch disc right there about a centimeter or a few millimeters flick it a little bit there's no added magnets on the discs just enough to make it levitate and probably don't even need that much but when you put them together like that like that growth it's really gets frustrating sometimes because they want to flip and flop everywhere you get them all facing the same way that close and you create something that you don't get without doing it and by all means I would consider that to be a challenge if you can you know send what I'm doing uh in a different format with say less magnets uh or just magnets no discs at all it's got to be stable man it can't be flopping all over the place if you can do it without the pole take the pull out you know I I just wanted to spin at least and be slightly graceful possible and I'm interested I won't diss anybody anybody's uh you know whatever anybody makes I think it's cool man especially if you want to try to begin with it's just you know it's amazing how little energy you need to put into these once you get them set up right to spin for a while you know it's see normally it'd be flip-flopping all over the place without that top eight on there pushing it down nice so when the instability of having only three magnets on the outside happens it's stabilized and hopefully that that pressure turns into forward momentum because that pressure is going to be there because it isn't bouncing doesn't mean it doesn't want to bounce foreign like I said uh more magnets come in when they come in we'll we'll finish the puzzle here and we'll we'll see if like happened all of them facing in are having like four facing and two face out kind of thing to have some variety I don't know to utilize the other forces because it's like it's there right you might as well try and use it right I don't know if that's right and whether to use it or ignore it try to work over it um most people tend to want to try and use it to help propel our create forward motion and the great thing about spinning a circle is that it simulates forward motion if you if you can clock how many times it goes around just imagine throwing it you know like a frisbee even or like a dart you know when you're throwing it and how many times it goes around can be used to calculate how far it goes wow all right thank you happy holidays everybody and uh as the ideas keep flowing in I'm Gonna Keep you know putting them out there and that that stands if you can find you know because there's no practical purpose for this at the moment I'm thinking maybe adding some copper to this might be awesome but there's no uh practical use it's just been just spinning and right now all it does is levitate and that's it I actually have to make it spin so it just floats and it's cool though you know it's so addicting at the moment and I just hope that uh uh the ideas the momentum here doesn't stop you know maybe I should post some of my ideas to some open source and see if anybody can use this because you know it's pretty cool and you know technically the space between the magnets is supposed to simulate the opposite Force but as you can see it doesn't attract because uh the other force is more powerful doesn't mean the other Force isn't there so you want to be able to whip this one but I can't because the poles are there so all the calculations that I do in my head for this stuff are different for this one then that one over there because it's more obstruction therefore there's less thrust but uh yeah I don't know uh subscribe give me a holler if you don't like what I'm doing don't be afraid to say so if I get back at you don't cry all right it's cool man whatever man it's all good this is real it's a real levitation right here I mean trust me man if I had the education and like the mental wherewithal to uh set up a circuit board right here I'm using electromagnets and pulsing this stuff and having to go forever and whatever I would do that right away right now I'm stuck with permanent magnets and it's coming together it's coming together slowly but surely um what the whole thing that spontaneously combusted all this stuff inside of me was a vision of a motorcycle tricycle Motor Trike that could fly on I guess anti-gravitational mechanisms like they have wheels and then the wheels could turn flat and then the whole thing gets off the ground but what appears to be three is really six because the wheel has two sides so what I think is really happening is that artificial environment is being created within the wheel within an entire and that just you know it sounds really Wicked when you think about it and I don't know where that came from because I don't know anything about anything like that being in existence or even being thought of right now but I tell you what what I believe is if we get a bunch of Tesla coils out there Quantum Tesla coils like just as powerful as the big one but can like fit on top of a telephone pole or down Underground you know if they're that powerful they can go underground and have the same effect and then you create just like these magnets right here a pillow of energy that you can float on and I don't see why we're not leaning towards that at least eventually because I mean it had just with how long ago it was invented I just don't see why we're not using it right now it's like yeah everything would happen faster but we gotta we gotta figure out how we make it quantum and Quantum means it's the same power as the big one but it's small are infinitely stronger than the big one but it's infinitely smaller because you need you need as you can see you need a lot of them for it to be stable and steady and you you need um yeah I'd say that's pretty much all you need is that pillow and then you just use the same Force against it why can't it be a magnetic field I think it is a magnetic field so you just use the same field like north to North South to South anyway thank you that's my idea I thought for for me right there thank you very much please um sign up and we can talk you can diss if you want it doesn't it doesn't matter this is how I think um and I you know I'm out I'm about to help everybody not just the people that can afford it and you know if if something like that would help everybody I hope it would be uh looked at more seriously all right have a great night
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