Anton Glotov's Gravity Wheel

[neptune]

@ Ramset , I believe that + is dialled as 0 .

[Omnibus]

Did you write that tongue in cheek?

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How do I dial that   +   in the phone #?

Chet

I know, but get this: http://zungedesign.livejournal.com/25085.html#cutid1 . This is their blog with a little discussion forum underneath. It's in Russian but there's nothing of substance in it.

[e2matrix]

Some on that forum are saying it is being run by a vacuum cleaner blowing on it.  But you hear no sounds of anything running yet can hear faint sounds in the background of people talking.  Also the person filming it stands directly in the way of the point for several seconds where air would need to be blowing from it if it was  involved. 

[Magluvin]

Hey Omni

No, no runners.  I was into Radio Shack color computer back then also. Started off at a huge 4k of ram,     Later upgraded it to 64k ram.     anyway, I got real good at basic programming and also into assembler. I did some simulations of a device that i designed, that for 7th grade was pretty good, I thought. ;]    It was a sliding rod device, a wheel with 6 outward and inward sliders connected to a cam in the center to push the rods on the down side of the wheel out and the up side in, thus forcing a continuous weight difference.  What I had figured out in the sims was the cam made the angle of the rods different than they would be if they were connected to the center. This caused more of the rods at anytime to be leaning on the wheel in the direction I didnt want it to go. I did the calculations at different angles and it always was in pure balance.

Then I thought of having the rods only slide straight out from the wheel with a cam.  after studying that for a bit you can see how the weight of the sliding rods applied pressure to the cam, still caused the same issue, balance.  =]
Im 45 now and just got back into it seriously back with the whipmag, and im stuck here. lol  its a good kind of stuck.

Hey E2

I think more wheels of the same in parallel would increase torque, having them offset so the hammer action happened more often per rotation. And those square plates on the arms need to go.
I said above that I thought that maybe a fan might be blowing on the floor, using those plates to catch the breeze.

I just watched the vid again and I see an inkling of possible air pushing on the arms at the bottom. At times it looks like the arm is just hanging, but then you see some lean upwards toward the direction they are moving, like something is making it be in a position it should not be in at the time.   Me thinks. ;]

Mags

[ramset]

Mags,
I suppose the big fan blades do make it suspect?

Maybe someone who's played with this close on the way up Out on the way down technique can give their opinion?
The SNAP is intrigueing,and makes me hope that the blade design has something to do with Snap damping?

Wishful thinking!
Chet