Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[Grimer]

To the contrary, you and Larry seem to have missed a key function here, the top part of the upper ramp
in combination with the shape of the slot act to propel the weight out into its working position. Think of a pair of scissors....

"If the system would fail to catch the propelled weight, the weight would be ejected from the system with force"

Ron.

It seems that the end of the hockey stick is where rotational energy (temperature) is converted into linear energy (pressure) like in cricket when a spinning ball hits the ground and you get a "shooter".

That would fit with the Carnot Cycle and

"If the system would fail to catch the propelled weight, the weight would be ejected from the system with force"

It may not be cricket but we have a spin bowler. 

"The Dutch cricket team is a national cricket team representing the Netherlands. It is administered by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (Royal Dutch Cricket Association) which is based in Nieuwegein in the centre of the country and is older than many renowned cricket clubs in the West Indies, Australia, and New Zealand.

Cricket has been played in the Netherlands since at least the 19th century, and in the 1860s was considered a major sport in the country. Many other sports (notably football) have long since surpassed cricket in popularity amongst the Dutch, and today there are around 6,000 cricketers in the Netherlands, making it the 25th most popular sport. The first national association, the forerunner of today's Royal Dutch Cricket Association, was formed in 1883 and the Netherlands achieved Associate Membership of the ICC in 1966."

Maybe Sjack is a bowler. 

[AquariuZ]

Good news and bad news *sigh*

It does seem to work - thats good

The "egg" and any other curves MUST be smooth as silk so the acceleration is constant and without interruptions.

So, there I had a model that actually started to turn from standstill and another with test crowns to hold the weights. And a beautiful egg.

I started swapping frame by frame and:

WM.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close

I knew of this problem when you click too fast between frames, has to do with memory paging.
I will finish this tomorrow, but for now a previous save because you guessed it: I did not save my progress.
So my last save has uncalibrated paths (smoothing) and the egg needs to move slightly to the right.
O, and only the first stopper
Model attached, good night all

[AB Hammer]

Greetings All

I still don't see how it is going to work. There has to be a different effect to do this. Back when I started designing I saw the design of Dixon Vallance 1835. I see the same problem with the Sjack Abeling. My 23rd design addressed these type of problems I call it the projector wheel due to the resemblance. It requires traction tracks like some form of rubber to help the reaction, and when the balls get to the end close to the axle they keep spinning on bearings to reducing the friction then at the correct angle it grabs the rim and goes up with the belt to the top. The pulley wheels are driven from the axle in a reverse spin. At least this is the design. I believe it should answer some of your questions on the problems you will face with the Sjack Abeling wheel.

[AquariuZ]

Reinstalled the crown stoppers couldn´t help myself.

Model without motor and speed and completely inert.

...or is it???

Hint: calibrate the egg and see what I saw.

Must sleep now birds starting to sing dammit

[Grimer]

The material of the weights should be concentrated on the perimeter like on a flywheel

The closer the material is towards the centre the more it is going to behave in the conventional manner of static material being lifted against gravity.

The key is in the fact that the accelerations the material is subjected to are much greater than the acceleration due to gravity. Gravity acceleration is piddling by comparison. Consequently one half of the weight is outrunning gravity and creating it's own wind which is opposite to the gravitational wind.

In effect the weights are sailing directly up into the gravitational wind.

Sailing directly into the wind is impossible, surely?

No it isn't. There was a long thread on the Steorn forum on the subject. I will have to try and dig out one of the videos which showed a propeller land model "sailing" directly into the wind.