# Working perpetual motor - real or fake?

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/working-perpetual-motor-real-or-fake/263853
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [May 23, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/working-perpetual-motor-real-or-fake/263853 "2012-05-23T05:14:20Z")
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### Author: ![Phate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Phate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Phate)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/working-perpetual-motor-real-or-fake/263853/6 "2012-05-25T09:56:59Z")

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> [@Inspection on Sunday](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/inspection-on-sunday/49696/4):
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> Center bearing support is the main hub/drive rotor out of your typical computer hard drive, brass weight rotor lined with magnets. Works off same principle as electric motors except instead of using commutator to reverse pole polarity of an armature it uses inertia to carry the rotor through fixed magnetic fields.
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> Theoretically, yes perpetual. In my mind when I think perpetual it needs to be powered by gravity or the earths rotation. Maybe a little pixie dust as well.

My thoughts are that there is an air nozzle somewhere off-camera spinning it up.

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