Gilles experiment applied to a wheel

[Rapadura]

OK, I know everyone likes wheels, rotating wheels, so, let's make a wheel!


First I had the idea of the piezoelectric-magnetic hammer:

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=8815.0

Nobody replied me.



Then I watched the video of the electromagnetic launcher made by Gilles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nowIn-QdbE



That made me think and try to develop a hypothesis in formal terms:

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=8820.0

Nobody replied me.


So let's try to apply the principle of the launcher, of the hammer and of the hypothesis of a wheel. It's quite simple.


We only would need to attach the aluminum disk of Gilles experiment to a wheel:

[Rapadura]

Look in the video that the launched disc hit the roof.

How high the disc could go if there were no roof?

How many times the wheel could spin if the disk was linked to it?

It was only 3 volts DC / 480uF. And if the disk was made of a magnetic material stronger than aluminum perhaps the energy required for the electro-magnet was even smaller.

[Rapadura]

Hmmm... Let's do some calculations...

The formula to calculate the amount of joules in a capacitor, as far as I know, is this:

W = 0.5 x C x U²

Gilles said in the video description that he used 3 volt and 480 micro-farads.

So we have:

W = 0.5 x 0.000480 farads x 3 volt x 3 volt

W = 0.000240  x 9

W = 0.00216 joules.

If my calculations are not wrong, Gilles provided to the coil only 2 milijoules.

2 milijoules = 2 miliwatt/second.

It means that 2 milijoules is the energy that we need provide to a LED to make it have a current of 20 miliamps with 2 volt for just 50 miliseconds.

WHAT ?!?!?

Where did I go wrong in my calculations?

Providing to a coil only the energy required to light a LED for 50 milliseconds with a current of 20 mA and 2 Volt, our friend Gilles made an aluminum disc fly at high speed until it hits the roof??

Please someone tell me I'm wrong and correct my calculations! Otherwise I will go nuts!

[ramset]

Rapa
You feel Gilles has an OU launcher?

Chet

[rice]

he is using an ammeter.  i have worked with electronics for a long time and i can say for sure that his caps are sucking back way more juice than you think.  no offence but that launcher would not be remotely feasible in the engineering of an efficient or o/u device