Wheel vs. lever...

[iacob alex]

.....is a simple face to face inquirer,about the compatibility and usefulness of a concept,in relation with the topic of this forum:

  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Perpetuum1.png

  face to

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet

      All the best! / Alex

[iacob alex]

    Hi !

A similarity with a trebuchet (a "particular" lever...) solution has a lot of advantages:

-simplicity

-a single variable arm

-an apparent "greater fall"  (from 0* to 180*,than from 180* to ~ 360*),so twice as much equivalent for a certain height.

After a full turning motion (0* to ~360*),all we need is a brief-time "self" for the variable arm(short arm into long arm).

If so...we have an incessant motion,due to gravity and inertia.

    All the best! / Alex

[iacob alex]

.....playing unbalance , at :
     https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iPkqL6swSnQ  ...but can you see the lever ?
     https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFwjkUoPPQ  ...but you know : no free fall , no "free" power...
     An idea is something existing in the mind.
     A test is an achievement in the real world ("outside the mind" ...).
     The difference is our relation with the reality...
     Al_ex

[iacob alex]

.....is an one-way street to understanding ,  but a two-way street to develop any mechanical design/device.
     If you break up any "wheel design" , into two halves (related to the vertical line of the fulcrum ) , you will discover al-ways a " lever equivalence "...this "phantom" can be the "key" for evolving to a possible "self" motion , if we maintain a continuous gravity unbalance ( torque difference on the same side of the fulcrum ) , in your own manner.
      As usually , whatever we cannot understand...we cannot possess.
      Al_ex