Adding more field magnetic energy? Lionel 200 series motors

I'd personally be amazed if they do anything, bug likely more harm than good.  Remember, the field winding has AC flowing through it, do the polarity of the poles is changing all the time.  Since the permanent magnets can't do that, I don't see how they add any utility.

thanks .. i really don't ... (Hear the difference in speed ) with or with out them, however only thing I found  on the net researching was  is If  it was a DC motor the magnets or one at least could help sure wish I found a super way  to  upgrade   and share....daniel

@DanssuperO,

I think you're on to something.  Now, if you can just pull off those magnets, flip them over, and stick them back on it might help.

The bad part is that you have to do this 60 times a second, and do so while the engine is moving down the track.

Seriously though, some of the very best innovations have come from thinking outside the box in this way.  What happens is that attempting to solve one problem, one with an unreachable solution, creates a bigger, but fundamentally different one.  Sometimes that bigger and different one happens to be much easier to solve than the original one, and ends up solving the original one at the same time.

Kill two birds instead of one, but make both problems easier to solve in the process.

Mike

Some time back Jon Z. was trying to figure a way to do cruise with the Pulmore motor, and I believe he came to the conclusion that the field wasn't strong enough for low speed operation to have smooth cruise.