Mathematical Analysis of an Ideal ZED

[minnie]

  Webby,
         I asked Wayne if he had a self running 5 hp machine.
   His answer was  "I'm confused"
    All I wanted was a Yes/no answer, no waffle.
                    John.

[mondrasek]

So you get a movement S = F_START/K_RATE 0.30078N / 64.649N/m =  0.004653m and an output energy of
0.5*0.30078N*0.004653m   0.700mJ.

MarkE, thank you so much for all your hard work!  I think it must be in this last step that I have made my mistake.  I'm looking at it now, but found a discrepancy between our work.  It might be a small miss on your part, or I am making another mistake, so I wanted to clarify.

I am finding the riser in the no-pod, single riser example at State 2 to be displacing 35.6234 cm³ of water and should therefore have an F_START = 0.34884N.  Can you please clarify if I am missing a step?

[mondrasek]

The energy expended, is the loss of potential energy in the annular columns as they move from the State 2 condition to the State 3 condition with the riser at 2.492mm lift...

Okay, I am lost here.  The lift was 4.68536mm.  Did I miss something?

Or 4.653mm by your math.  Probably due to the use of different constants for water density and gravity?

[minnie]

    mrwayne's  on to something," you push it down and it goes up".
    Quite amazing!
                       John.

[TinselKoala]

I thought the forward voltage drop for an ordinary red LED was 0.6 volts and I was wrong.  In the past, I have calculated the current programming resistor values for when an LED is connected to a 5-volt source and a 12-volt source.  That's a huge challenge for the average experimenter on the forums.  I think the last time I had to worry about LEDs was in 1988 when I had to put a few indicator lights on the front panel of a VMEbus controller card that I was designing.

MileHigh

You probably thought you had discovered Free Energy when the LEDs were much brighter than you expected!

Here's how I do it:
V=IR, so R=V/I
R = (V_supply - V_fwd)/I_LED

ETA: I've just been testing and identifying a bunch of random Zener diodes that have unreadable or mysterious markings. Any guesses as to how I'm doing it?