The Bessler Wheel, mystery solved.

[forest]

I mean did you open the rar file? or did you only watch the video


regards

  looking for it.... but what program I need to open the inside of it ?

[gurangax]

I think so. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I had other concept but not easy to implement, more according to the video link you posted with a ball alone flying in air and hitting the kind of elastic lever of two parts , but the obvious problem is the way to catch the ball and attach again to the lever system.  I'm really not much experienced in mechanical devices and really not that much interested in building anything complicated 

a falling ball does gain energy. but im afraid most of the energy will be released and wasted as impact/impulse. the simple design i made will rotate right or left depending on the first action you put to it. when the wheel is not moving it is actually balanced, the work is only done after the lever falls due to heavier top side.


regards

[forest]

I'm afraid I cannot open design file. However I'm curious how it can be stopped once run and how you make it rotate in one direction every time. I assume that by stopping forcefully every levers got the balance position when the larger mass in at the bottom ?
Is this the same way Bessler used the principle ? Then I can't imagine how he started the wheel except maybe if he had a "window" in his wheel to rise the lever up ?

[bbem]

Thank you Gurangax 
Looking very promising indeed.
(wish you added the Ikea parts with

Now I need to find the best free programm to open the wm2d file.

Regards, Bert

[gurangax]

I'm afraid I cannot open design file. However I'm curious how it can be stopped once run and how you make it rotate in one direction every time. I assume that by stopping forcefully every levers got the balance position when the larger mass in at the bottom ?
Is this the same way Bessler used the principle ? Then I can't imagine how he started the wheel except maybe if he had a "window" in his wheel to rise the lever up ?

if you combine the excess weight principle with his MTs you will have a unidirectional wheel.


regards