Moving a bearing can double the ouput. Starter motor not shown. You can always just spin the converter by hand.
Hi Sparks
I can't help thinking that you need to give more details, also would it work better if everything was on one drive shaft.
@powercat
A dc motor is anchored to a platform. When in operation the stator rotation is resisted by the mounting plates. 1/2 of the torque produced by the motor is waisted or resisted. The torque splitter is a permanent magnet dc motor with double shafts. Attached to the shafts are pillowblock bearings which anchor the assembly to the ground through the bearing supports. The stator or motor shell is balanced and allowed to spin freely. Around the outside diameter of the motor is attached a pulley connected to the drive dynamo. The output from this drive dynamo (dc permanent magnet motor used as a dc generator) is fed through slip rings to the brushloder inside the torque splitter. This drives the armature in counter rotation to the torque splitter motor shell. As the drive dynamo loads up it stalls the shell and the armature drives the output dyanmo through a pulley on the torque splitter shaft.
I don't see where you think the advantage is. Wouldn't it be a lot easier of a setup to just change the diameter of the pulleys. It would give you the same effect.
Quote from: powercat on February 27, 2010, 04:29:33 PM
Hi Sparks
I can't help thinking that you need to give more details, also would it work better if everything was on one drive shaft.
I think powercat is right. Horsepower tests on hybrid cars show having the generator and power drive motor on the same shaft can increase efficiency, but there are a lot of variations on this theme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vehicle_drivetrain
http://serieshybrid.com/FreedomFormula/images/Drivetrain_Comparison.pdf
There's also the consideration of things like inertia and the conservation of energy.
--Lee
The advantage I see is that a motor produces torque in two directions. One is shaft torque the other is stator torque.
If we "bolt down" the stator using a load then we have increased efficiency. It will not cost any more wattage to drive the stator counter to the rotor. In the diagram the torque splitter armature is double shafted. This spins normally in opposition to the ts stator. The ts armature is supported with additional pillowblock bearings. This allows the stator to rotate counter to the armature. A pulley is mounted both to one end of the armature and on the outside diameter of the stator/motor housing. The stator will revolve in one direction while the rotor will revolve in the other. As you load the torque splitter stator down through the drive dynamo output the ts armature will begin to drive the output generator. The more load on the drive dynamo the more "bolted down" the ts motor appears.
Quite clear to me.
You're harvesting the bolted down torque.
Wouldn't the RPM halve? (along with input Amps?)
Then increase as more "bolted down" is applied?
It should make a heck of interesting electric
motor/generator,especially with today's bearing technology,probably could be built as a single unit?
if 'bolted down' is a group of coils?
j.
note: I don't get to come to this forum that often.usually twice a week or so. I say this because I wouldn't want anyone thinking I was not answering,Thanks,I knew you would understand.