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Perendev Magnetic Motor

First-Hand Report

A Report, May 20, 2004

Claims 20 kW force output experimentally measured, with no diminution of Gauss in an all-magnet motor.  Looking for buyer of technology.  Expects $500,000,000 USD opening bid for buyout of world rights for manufacturing and marketing.  Caution regarding business practice.

Disclosure of Former Relationship Between Allan and Brady

May 20, 2004

I, Sterling D. Allan, am the director of this freeenergynews.com website you are now at, and am responsible for the contents on this present page.  I am speaking for myself and not on behalf of any organization.  What I disclose here is not in breach of non-disclosure parameters.  The photos of Mike's device below appeared at one time or another on his public website with his permission.

I served as webmaster for Mike Brady's official perendev.co.za website from May 2002 through Fall of 2003 when the domain registration expired and was not renewed by Brady.  I also had obtained a quasi priority relationship for manufacturing and marketing his Perendev Magnetic motor, along with a team of people I had assembled in a business relationship in the U.S.  I registered the domain Perendev.com on May 30, 2002.   I founded the perendev yahoogroups newsletter.

I traveled to Johannesburg in Dec. 2002 to meet with Brady in his home for five days, and see his magnet motor, which at the time had just come from the machinist and had not been assembled to work yet.  We helped assemble and try various magnet combinations.  He was a courteous host, driving us daily to some new tourist interest point, and taking us out to dinner.

Two months later Brady sent viewed video footage of the same motor in motion. I am personally convinced the motor was self-propelling (tapping into the Earth's magnetic field or some other force field not visible -- my model, not necessarily his).  In the video, Brady did not do a walk-around during acceleration, only during deceleration, so the video was not skeptic-proof (the skeptic can say a cheater device was attached during acceleration).  Another video was promised, and supposedly sent in December 2003, but never arrived.

Distancing

On Feb 17, 2004, Brady said he was coming to the U.S. to demo his 20 kW unit, and that he wanted me to pull together an auction for him to sell the technology outright.  "Minimum bid: $500,000,000 USD in reserve."

I responded that I thought the amount was far too high, and frankly told him I thought he was getting greedy.  I tried to talk him out of this, but he would not be swayed.

At that point, I and the tentative company I had assembled decided that we no longer wished to pursue a manufacturing/marketing license arrangement of any kind with Brady.  Not only was his greed an issue, but integrity as well, as his promises to do this or that hardly ever materialized.  Though he promised dozens of times to send us the patent information for his device, he never in 2 years delivered on that promise.  Promises of sending a video, given dozens of time, materialized only once.  I've never seen any patent documentation to this day, though he has made claims to such from the beginning of our relationship two years ago.  He claims international patent protection through the PTC.  A patent search comes up null.

On March 30, Brady said he would like to present his magnetic motor technology at the ExtraOrdinary Technology conference in SLC on July 31-Aug. 1.  We began occasional dialogue to that end, with perhaps the idea of holding his auction following that, after we had verified his claims.  Because of how many times such plans fell through in the past (approximately eight different scrapped attempts for him to come to the U.S.), we did not put much effort into following up on this proposal.  No official invitation was ever extended, though a draft was in composition ready for discussion and possible approval on May 17, 2004.

Severance

On May 17, 2004 (two years to the day from the first date shown on the first report I made of Perendev in 2004), I was made aware of a non-payment by Brady's Perendev company of an account owing to SAFTEC (PTY) LTD. since Sept. 2, 2002 in the amount of R 22500.00.  (At the present exchange rates, that amounts to $3,333.33 USD.)  Most likely, this went toward the device that I viewed when I went to Johannesburg. [April 2005 Note: Soon after that, Mike said he had taken care of this debt, paying it in full.]

When I questioned Mike about this after learning of it on May 17, he responded that if the person who promised to pay him $500 million USD for the technology would have done so, he would not be in this situation.  The problem with this answer is that the alleged $500 mil. deal was recent (maybe Jan-Feb. 2004), while the outstanding bill was 1.5-years years old.  I was not impressed with his absence of remorse, and lack of a sense of obligation to remedy those he owed.

All factors considered, though Brady might have a working technology, his ethics in dealing with people, including myself and my team, are not something I can any longer countenance.  It's one thing to put up with the eccentricities of an inventor -- for they all have eccentricity in abundance.  But Brady went too far in his greed and lack of integrity in honoring his promises to us and others.

For this reason, as of today, May 20, 2004, I am officially separating myself from having any business relationship with Mike Brady.  I do not wish to be associated with him so long as he behaves in this manner.

Meanwhile, I wish him success in bringing his technology to market.  Maybe someone else will have the magical mixture of personality to put up with his eccentricities and be able to strike a reasonable deal that will result in the device going to market where it can begin to help ameliorate the planet's dependence on fossil fuels.  But unless he quenches his greed and allows someone to take the technology for a far more reasonable price, the amount of influence his technology has on changing the world landscape will amount to little more than a puff of hot air.  The more he asks for himself, the more his scruples are quenched, and the less the planet will benefit.  Presently his level of greed and the difficulty of talking contract with him is a deal-breaker for anyone.  I cannot imagine anyone working with him as he is presently constituted.  I would not advise it.

April 2005 Update

In the Fall of 2004, having received a healthy infusion of funds, Mike was forging ahead, claiming to be ready shortly to publicly display his motor on German Television.  We were able to burry the hatchet of our past schism that resulted from my publishing the report on this present page, and re-established a positive rapport as well as a tentative business relationship, in which I was once again spearheading the gathering of a team to manufacture and market his magnet motor in North America.

As before, one delay compounded upon another, and the same pattern from the past was repeated.  No patent information, no skeptic-proof video, no working device for us to come see (though there was a brief window around November when he said that there was one), ever the story that he has just one more little change to make on the device, or waiting for some new component to arrive.  That hardly constitutes manufacture readiness.

Finally, early in 2005, when he told me about the "zero-point spark plug" and other new devices, I leveled frankly with him and told him he had a serious credibility problem.  How was he to expect people to take him serious on new claims when he has not yet delivered on the past claims?

I have not heard from him since that time, as of April 23, 2005.

Former Official Website

• perendev.co.za - has been down since ~Dec. 03.
  • Archive.org has archived copy of entire site Jun 01, 2002 | Jul 26, 2002 | Aug 05, 2002 | Sep 28, 2002 | Sep 29, 2002 | Nov 26, 2002 | Nov 27, 2002 | Feb 06, 2003 | Feb 13, 2003 | Mar 26, 2003

e-Newsletter

• Perendev Newsletter - to announce developments, still open

A Brief History

First Working Prototype; Winter, 2002

The first working prototype was composed of Aluminum.  Brady was going to come to the U.S. in April 2002 to demo it.  His first flight scheduled was postponed because of a U.S. terror alert.  The second flight scheduled was postponed because his associate (who later was discovered to be embezzling from him) came down with  rickets.  At that point Brady had scheduled to ship the device to me via freight.  The third flight scheduled was canceled because his device began to stop working.  A breaking effect began to show up, allegedly as an interaction between the magnets and the aluminum as the aluminum began to be charged.  I confirmed all flights prior to their cancellation.  He was coming on his own financial backing, and was asking nothing from us until we had a chance to see it in operation.

Second Working Prototype Iteration: Late Summer/Fall, 2002

Non-disclosure confidentiality prevents discussion.

Third Working Prototype Iteration: Winter, 2003

The third prototype was the one I helped assemble with him in Johannesburg in December, which Mike got working in February and sent a video showing it in operation.  As I watch it yet again, I express my assessment that no cheater device was present and that the video is a bona fide presentation of a working device.

Fourth Prototype Iteration Computer Rendition: Spring 2003

During the Spring of 2003, Mike used some systems modeling software to engineer a more optimal design prior to creating it in situ.  So confident was he of the computer modeling that he began to announce on his website that he would be doing a world tour with his device; and the he would begin taking orders for the first units.  I talked him into removing that information from his site until the unit was built in fact, and to not publicly announce his level of progress until units were able to be made in mass production; and I urged him to not take any monies for units until he had proven that the design indeed worked in reality.  He was hoping to have it done in time to come to the ExtraOrdinary Technology in July in SLC 2003.

Meanwhile, with his permission, we had already begun construction of a modification ourselves.  We were not able to get it to work.  It was very well engineered by a Ph.D. machinist.  You can see a photo of it in the collage at the top of this page.  It is the device sitting behind the second "e" of "Free."

By May of 2003, Mike claimed three working prototypes currently in operation.

On August 11, he told me he had achieved 20 kW from the motor and high torque.  He wanted to produced 20 units right away and get them to the parties that had shown the most interest in licensing.  That never transpired.

In September, he began again to plan a trip here.  In October I proposed that he let me go there.  He declined, saying he would be coming here "in about 30 days."  In November he said the trip would be delayed for reason of not wanting to stand all day in line with riffraff in order to get his Visa.

Prototype Iteration Six

On April 3, 2004 in conjunction with a letter about the coming to the Extraordinary Technology conference at the end of July that he wanted to attend, he mentioned that his "new unit is nearly ready."  On April 15, he sent me an updated computer-rendering of the latest design, which is not greatly different from the above rendition.

On May 13, Mike wrote, "we have tested the unit with a larger alternator rated at 60 kw with very little degrading of the motors performance, this will use 100% of the motors power, so we will run the unit on a 20kw alternator so that the motors duty cycle will be about 60% of it's capability."

That brings us up to date as of the time of this writing. (May 20, 2004)

Prototype Iteration Seven

Nov. 18, 2004 photo Shows new shielding and magnet shape.

Mike Brady the Man

While I do not like Brady's tendency to promise and not deliver, I have generally written it off as part of the inventor eccentricity: optimism without a reality check. 

I like Mike Brady, despite all his rough edges and gruff outward showing.  I've connected with him on a heart level, and believe him to be basically good.  I cheer for his success, and mourn when he is his own worst enemy.

Brady tends to be very pessimistic about the world and people.  It was hard to be around his negativism about life for long stretches of time.

I'm sure he would not want me to show the above photo of him taken while I was there in Dec. 2003 because it is "not a good picture" if him.  However, I will say that this captures the person I met for five days in Johannesburg.  While he has his happy moments (mainly with his step children), he is so tired of all the rigmarole involved in birthing his ideas to fruition.  He has had many ideas stolen from him, and it has jaded him.  The loss of his son about a decade ago in a senseless murder has left a deep scar.  I didn't enjoy his deep racism toward the blacks.

While we were there, he told us story after story of events from his colorful life.  He has lived a sort of James Bond type of existence.  Under cover cop for quite a while.  We met quite a few of his friends, and they unknowingly corroborated the stories Mike had told us, including past stolen inventions that would have been worth a lot of money to him.

Will Mike be able to bring this magnetic motor to fruition -- to the marketplace?  Will he get out of it what he thinks its worth?

My opinion is that he needs to humble himself or he will see neither.  When he humbles himself, those two elements will merge -- bring to fruition a great device for a price that is modest and satisfactory at the same time.

Best wishes to whoever takes it from here.

Sincerely,

Sterling D. Allan
Remaining a friend, but not an associate

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Remember our early conversations more than two years ago.  You said you were doing this for mankind, and not for money.

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See also

• Perendev-Power Website Downgraded - Touting an all-magnet magnet motor near market readiness (for 3 years now), downgraded website now claims they are working in association with the European space agency. PerenTech mothballed. (PESN; April 23, 2005)
• Perendev Magnet Motor - Index of coverage and resources.
• Perendev - Directory at PESWiki
• Magnet Motors - Index of various designs by various inventors
• Torbj H. paid $6,000 to Brady for mag. motor in 2002, hoping for business relationship - then did not receive refund when motor was not shipped as planned.  Sterling defended Brady at the time.

Index created by Sterling D. Allan May 18, 2004
Last updated March 12, 2013