smot leverage gravity wheel

[nwman]

It looks a lot like the Chas Campbell idea in the gravity forum which they say doesn't work. Also my comment about having a SMOT that actually works. This is still in question in my mind without seeing the test I described.

Tim

[spacetrax]

Hi@all,
theoretically it could work, but unless someone builds it, you can never know...
I tried once a wheel-setup with slipping weights and it did not work. Somehow the weel gets balanced after a few rotations, so I gave it up.
But this setup with a smot could work...you just need to build it :-)
Cheers!

[FreeEnergy]

simple test on how the wheel uses the smot

[nwman]

Well, I just did all the math on your idea with a few alterations to make it proportionate.

1) The distance the weight on the far right will travel from the top SMOT to the Bottom SMOT is only a fractional turn of the wheel. The amount the wheel rotates is not enough to position the weight on the left side to a point where it can travel horizontally. It will still be too low to enter the SMOT on a true horizontal plane. The right weight would have to rotate 45 degrees to lift the left side weight into position to enter the SMOT. So the inner diameter would then have to be (if the outer radius is 1m) .3827m. Then if you find the effective mass (torque) of the weights added up on the left side 2.4142Kg per .3827m (if each weight is 1Kg), or simplified to .9239Kgm. Then add up the amount of torque on the right side would give you (with one weight at 0 degrees horizontal) 1Kgm. Compare the two and you see that .9239 < 1 so the wheel would want to rotate clockwise with a very small amount of force.

[nwman]

2) However if you rotate the wheel to the position it would pick up a weight and drop a weight you would have the below arrangement. The left side would equal 1.0007Kgm (due to rounding you get the .0007) and the right side would equal .9239Kgm. If you notice it?s a complete switch of the last graphic and it would want to rotate counter-clockwise.