New accelerating gravity wheel ! Converted video from www.newenergymachine.com !

[noonespecial]

Hi Charlie

Trying to understand your pic in #311.  Is that an orbital gear around the central axis?

Thanks!

No. Nothing that fancy... Its a simple cam and the smaller circles the cam follower. I showed it in phantom because it was mounted separately on the other leg of the stand. The cam lifts the rotating follower (and connecting arm) up lifting both weights. Because of the offset, the bottom one would go counter-clockwise and the top, clockwise. It worked exactly as expected up until around 4:00 where it hit a "wall" and couldn't lift its own weight. The new one I'm working on will only have to lift one weight instead of both which should get me over the wall.
Regards,
Charlie

[squegee69]

No. Nothing that fancy... Its a simple cam and the smaller circles the cam follower. I showed it in phantom because it was mounted separately on the other leg of the stand. The cam lifts the rotating follower (and connecting arm) up lifting both weights. Because of the offset, the bottom one would go counter-clockwise and the top, clockwise. It worked exactly as expected up until around 4:00 where it hit a "wall" and couldn't lift its own weight. The new one I'm working on will only have to lift one weight instead of both which should get me over the wall.
Regards,
Charlie

That is an awesome concept - don't give up the fight!  I was thinking if you mounted an orbital gear offset on the main axle, and two smaller pickup gears instead of cam stops (one on each side) on the slider shaft, you might be able to accomplish as the slide pushes the smaller gear back onto the orbital and forces it back to true (like a pendulum), but this is all in my head and unmodeled - I always seem to hit that same wall in practice.  Keep up the good work.

Peace!

[LarryC]

@All,

Forget my gate latch solution for anyone trying to replicate Bob's machine. Got the weight holding units together today with a latch post. But ran into a problem with the gate latch setup. It is to difficult to unlatch under pressure with just 7 lbs and with saved centrifugal force it would be impossible. I will be changing to a regular door knob setup as they open pretty easy even with your body weight pressed against the door.

Regards, Larry

[noonespecial]

Hi Larry,
How were you activating the latch? Could you modify it so that there is less of a right angle where it catches?
Charlie

[LarryC]

Hi Larry,
How were you activating the latch? Could you modify it so that there is less of a right angle where it catches?
Charlie

I was manually sliding the latch mechanism onto the latch rod connected to the 7 lb box. Then lifting it and pulling on the release pin. Very difficult with 7 lbs and at this point my design would have the springs connected to the 7lb box, so the tension would be some multiple. The catch is a small arc. I was looking at modifying the latch catch, little difficult and it may cause latching problems. The door knob latch seems much better at releasing with many times the weight.

Now this baby could sling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet.
Check out this modern efficient design http://www.trebuchet.com/firstfat

Regards, Larry