well I have no formal education in mechanics, physics, engineering, etc,etc, but I have had a knack to make things work, nor do I have the facilities to be able to actually try this
my idea, and I have looked for anything similar and have never seen an idea like it
if you were to take a 2 cylinder engine, or compressor, remove the top end, connect the rods in a way to say 50# springs, could you put a wieght on the flywheel to be able to overcome the resistants of the springs to go past tdc?
what weight would you need and at what rpm?
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Quote from: canuck22 on May 08, 2008, 01:10:57 PM
well I have no formal education in mechanics, physics, engineering, etc,etc, but I have had a knack to make things work, nor do I have the facilities to be able to actually try this
my idea, and I have looked for anything similar and have never seen an idea like it
if you were to take a 2 cylinder engine, or compressor, remove the top end, connect the rods in a way to say 50# springs, could you put a wieght on the flywheel to be able to overcome the resistants of the springs to go past tdc?
what weight would you need and at what rpm?
this forum is called half baked ides ;D
Canuck
I would say that anyone with more than half an education in such things would tell you that it won't work
I don't have more than half an education so I will say ..........maybe it could work .
If you had a long heavy rod or beam .........at some frequency it would have a natural resonance .....in other words it would vibrate like a guatar string . If you hooked a crankshaft of the right lenght to this rod you could get rotory motion out of it .
Would it be over unity ? probably not .........unless you fond a naturally occurring vibration you could tap in this maner .
Your idea with springs would work in a similar way ...... a very heavy piston connected to springs would have a specific fewquency of oscillation . Your springs would would be storing energy half of the time then releasing that energy the other half of the time . .......so no energy gain there ....... but again it could be used to tap energy from a pre existing vibration
gary
what I mean is, I am looking to be able to bring the piston rod to top dead center, then make it go over top dead center using a weight on a flywheel as kenetic energy to do the work, the speing would send the rod back down to bottem dead center
the opposing rod would go over tdc ( top dead center ) ans send the 1st rod back up
Quote from: canuck22 on May 08, 2008, 03:20:42 PM
what I mean is, I am looking to be able to bring the piston rod to top dead center, then make it go over top dead center using a weight on a flywheel as kenetic energy to do the work, the speing would send the rod back down to bottem dead center
the opposing rod would go over tdc ( top dead center ) ans send the 1st rod back up
I have no idea what configuration you are thinking of having the rods in .
It looks to me like you are trying to extract energy from the springs ......you won't get any more out of them than you put in .
gary
yes
all I want to do is keep it revolving, using the spings and weighted flywheel, the springs and weight would supply torque to runa generator