Mehess Motor

[Nastrand2000]

Capacitor charging and discharging is not a linear process. Here is a good site to show the logrithmic relationship of capacitance  http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/capacit.htm    scroll about half way down the page. I would suggest not waiting the eight days to rewind the mechanism...just a thought.

Jason P.

[billmehess]

For those interested:

I have been able to increase the rate of charge in the capacitor from 2 mv/ hour to 3 mv/ minute or 180 mv/ hour. I realize that the capacitor does not charge at a constant rate but this still represents a large increase in the amount of electricity I will be able to store in 8 days.
I also have ordered in a 8 day grandfather clock movement from a company called Klocket. This uses weights instead of a spring/key driven mech. to move the pendulum. The movement comes with three weights. The two outside weights are used for the chime system. Since I don't care about this feature I will be using only the center weight which controls the pendulum.
The center weight weight 6.8 lb so it will take considerably less motor power to rewind that up as opposed to a key winding method.
In other words I see no problem being able to generate enough stored electricity to reenergize the system so that it can run indefinitely
and produce usable power.
Again this motor system will run independent of any external power source, it will produce enough electricity to power,  and reenergize itself and produce and excess of electricity.
Because this type of movement is so much stronger than a key drive/spring system I can move my large magnet directly in and out of the coil system again.
Will keep posting as the device evolves.

[Nastrand2000]

Excellent work Bill, I hope to see a vidieo in the near future

[FreeEnergy]

maybe you can use this to operate your clock.

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

[hartiberlin]

Yes, or better use one of Walter Hoffmann?s Saltwater cells !
They last at least 10000 hours !
Maybe this way you can scale up the output of the batteries !
Have a look here:
http://www.overunity.com/index.php/topic,298.0.html