CG Showcase of Overbalanced Wheel

[j_lindgaard1]

a-VIV. trying my hands on wm2d,
one of three mechanisms presented by the Merseburg drawing http://www.orffyre.com/Merseburg1.jpg , the Pendulum, ....
the other two are Lifting weight mechanism and Hammer mill mechanism.

  helloha,
In Bessler wheel, you asked about the hammer mill. They were used for grinding grain into flour. It could be why Bessler wanted to sell his invention. It would have allowed for a portable mill. A river or wind would not have been needed to continue milling wheat or grain.
One of Bessler's clues was that his weights got their force from swinging. A pendulum swings. It also has a lot of torque which is not used.
And as a wheel rotates, all levers move back to their original position, gravity requires this.

[helloha]

a-X. trying my hands on wm2d,
rotating magnet and coil using triple wheels in pair

[helloha]

http://youtu.be/cpVw0J2GOYc

animation of 18by18 arms wheel with addition of pendulum.
the pendulum design is extracted from Johann Bessler's Merseburg drawing.

[helloha]

a-XI. trying my hands on wm2d,
reposition the main weight to the center,
and the swinging weights to the edge of the wheel

[helloha]

a-XII. trying my hands on wm2d,
reposition the main weight to the center,
and the swinging weights to the edge of the wheel