MagLev C

Post by **iwonder** » March 20th, 2013, 7:51 pm

I think we talked about this earlier... We determined that it was easier to manufacture, but serves no point. On the track for my school I put the same pole facing up on each side and it works better, we don't have to switch the magnets around to go the other direction.

joeyjoejoe · Post by **joeyjoejoe** » March 21st, 2013, 4:26 am

mrsteven wrote:I can support well over a kg with strip magnets on the track and ceramic on the car with magnets only running the usual 2 strips on the track

Wow, I'm beginning to believe I actually did get a bad batch of strip magnets from Kelvin. I didn't try the exact combination that you did (strip magnets on the track and ceramic magnets on the car) but with strip magnets on both the car and the track our unweighted car would touch the track at a little over 400g. Weird!

Post by **mrsteven** » March 21st, 2013, 5:21 am

Well that doesnt surprise me much. Those strip magnets arent very strong at all, the ceramics are what are stronger so it can float better. Go to radio shack or a hobby shop (or american science and surplus

) and get a bunch of ceramics and try that on your car

Post by **twototwenty** » March 21st, 2013, 8:36 am

The information for the top 6 NY teams is up here...they are quite disappointing to me; if one on the magnets hadn't broken off of my car right before the run/if everything had gone as it had during all of my practice runs, I would easily have scored 5th. Stupid Murphy's Law.

joeyjoejoe · Post by **joeyjoejoe** » March 21st, 2013, 8:58 am

What was the distance for the NY maglev event?

lmatkovic3 · Post by **lmatkovic3** » March 21st, 2013, 11:36 am

Neodymium is perfectly legal on the ramp.

Post by **twototwenty** » March 21st, 2013, 12:16 pm

joeyjoejoe wrote:What was the distance for the NY maglev event?

85 cm, I think...I might be wrong. It was most of the track though.

Jdogg · Post by **Jdogg** » March 21st, 2013, 3:27 pm

twototwenty wrote:
joeyjoejoe wrote:What was the distance for the NY maglev event?
85 cm, I think...I might be wrong. It was most of the track though.

92 cm, as stated on the New York tab

bearasauras · Post by **bearasauras** » March 22nd, 2013, 10:57 am

lmatkovic3 wrote:Neodymium is perfectly legal on the ramp.

Did someone say ramp?!

Are we still talking about MagLev or did we switch over to Gravity Vehicle?

lmatkovic3 · Post by **lmatkovic3** » March 22nd, 2013, 11:37 am

My bad. I meant to say track.

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