Chas Campbell free power motor

[Humbugger]

@Hum.
I have been following the threads for a while: yet I have been rather lazy to post.
Being person on the business / operations side for innovative concept promotion I highly value your input here. It is not like I don't dream and have high hopes sometimes or anything, but there should always be people who have healthy amount of scepticism.
As a partly related example ? I have a numerous times situations when inventor makes a proposal for potential investors/partners where he concludes that a price for a unit of a product in the final outlet is 10.00 USD and electricity for production and raw materials cost ? 0.50 USD. And they are convinced that a company would make a profit of 9.50 USD on every unit sold.

@Aiks

I obviously agree about the need for skeptical commentary, especially in a place like this.  I don't quite understand what you are telling me in the second paragraph...maybe they are forgetting labor, packaging, transportation, advertising, distribution and warehousing?  Otherwise the math sounds okay to me 

My dad was an engineering professor for almost 40 years.  In his spare time, he did consulting and testing for investors looking at certain projects.  Many of them were "phoney" inventions that did not perform as claimed and were not good investments.  He did a lot of testing on items that claimed to save energy and yield better mileage.  Mostly mechanical stuff.

As a little boy I can remember going with him on Saturdays sometimes and watching him run tests with big motors and dynamometer loads and extremely precision instruments.  Every time, on every device that claimed energy savings or mileage improvement, it came out to be untrue.  He revealed a lot of false claims in his day and saved investors many millions of dollars and major frustrations.  Maybe that's where I got my skeptical gene.  Except nobody is paying me for it as yet!

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[aiks]

@Hum - yes that was what I intended to say. btw - sorry if my English is not perfect; I am not a native speaker, and writing these posts a bit in a hurry inbetween my other tasks.

[Humbugger]

@Hum - yes that was what I intended to say. btw - sorry if my English is not perfect; I am not a native speaker, and writing these posts a bit in a hurry inbetween my other tasks.

Don't worry, Aiks, I understand you just fine and think your english is very good.  We have Australians here that can't speak english as well as you do!

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[GraViTaR]

G'day all,

Sorry guys, the Gravitar device does not work as it is, unfortunately. Here is why:



When the container on the right hits this position it cannot go further down as all the weight now rests on the pin and there is insufficient power on the right to lower it any further and bring the other side back into play.

Pity, it was such an inspired idea. I guess it's back to the drawing board one more time. :-(

Hans von Lieven

Ahh, but that is why the pulley is attached to a flywheel; to give the entire system just enough "oomph" to get it over that hump.

The upward momentum of the lighter carriage, plus the downward momentum of the heavier carriage, AND the inertia of the flywheel, overcome the sudden loss of weight when the balls in the descending carriage impact the ball displacement rod.

[hansvonlieven]

G'day all,

Sorry Gravitar, there is not enough energy in the system to store in the flywheel or pendulum.

The moment the balls on the right hit the displacement pin, in order to move the container any further down you need enough force to lift ALL the weights on the left, since the weight of the balls on the right no longer contribute any force.

I don't know how to get around this one.

Hans von Lieven