Gravity powered machines...

[GeorgeWiseman]

I have many failures in many boxes with gravity devices.  It boils down to measurements - power in and power out. That said
I don't understand what lifts the weights from the inner track to the outer track
which would be the power in and then how much power out is measured from that
power in.

The weights are 'lifted' / flung outward by centrifugal force once they are released from the CRs.  This happens after the wheel is pre-spun up to at least 65 rpm.  The 'gravity' energy in is calculated to be 5 ft/lbs of axle torque.  Full math and design details are in the Wiseman's Wheels eBook.  I'm willing to give free access to that eBook to anyone who demonstrates ability to understand the forces involved and is willing to discuss them.

[GeorgeWiseman]

      Hi George !
Take a look at :
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:SJack_Abeling_-_Gravity_Wheel_-_Weight_Power_Plant
      Al_ex

Thank you.  Great link.  I think the CCG Wheel will work better because the weights are not connected. 

Thus, when spun up to speed, so the upper weights will be flung outward (no need for connection bars) the weights DO NOT have to travel upward!  It is OK for the upper weights to travel 'horizontally' thus not needing as much energy to 'reset' as Preston's replication.  The energy needed to 'fling' the weights outward is provided by the inward moving weights at the bottom, so those energies balance.  The ONLY unbalanced energy is the axle torque induced by the center of gravity being offset from the center of rotation.

[iacob alex]

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          It's so easy to manifest your "ego" on net...as a gravity (seriousness or importance) "man".
      Al_ex

[sm0ky2]

The weights are 'lifted' / flung outward by centrifugal force once they are released from the CRs.  This happens after the wheel is pre-spun up to at least 65 rpm.  The 'gravity' energy in is calculated to be 5 ft/lbs of axle torque.  Full math and design details are in the Wiseman's Wheels eBook.  I'm willing to give free access to that eBook to anyone who demonstrates ability to understand the forces involved and is willing to discuss them.

George,

spinning the wheel up to 60-65 rpm will accelerate the weights faster than the gravitational acceleration force.
releasing it to gravity will decelerate the wheel and decrease the radial (outward) force.

its a time thing,.. gravity is time dependent. the faster the wheel spins, the less "time" gravity has to act upon the weights.
Torque is not energy, to get from torque to energy you have to include distance and time.
in your case, distance is constant, therefore, you are only concerned with time.

[memoryman]

George, there are losses that you may not have considered, such as the losses that are caused by the sliding weights  hitting the ends and having kinetic energy absorbed in that collision.
Can't analyse the system without spending more time, but gravity is conservative and I don't see anything that changes that, so: no energy gain.