At 10:51 AM 16/10/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Sounds like a pretty good plan, but if you plan to use permanent magnets to
>augment the coils, you'll have to abandon the control system that he
>proposed, or your "train" will only be able to move in one direction. The
>magnetic fields have to be able to reverse direction freely in order to
>repel the train in either direction. I'd say, forget the perm. mags, and
>just buy yourself a 24V, 5 Amp wall wart. :O)
>
>- Robert

Sorry, I intended to say that the thing I wanted to levitate should be
static.  I don't want it to move.

--Brendan

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