Roll on the 20th June

[DarkStar_DS9]

Watts are the SI unit for power. I did say the power would change with the number of coils to keep the force constant. Energy is power*time (kWh, Joules=Watt*second), but since the time changes also (in the lift process), energy for remains constant.

... number of turns...

why does the time in the lift process change when there is exactly the same magnetic field present? The same force acting at the perm magnet? I don't get it, sorry. Are you talking about the time from powering up the coil to the field reaching it's full strength?

As for the wheel... I still don't think that you understand what I was talking about - sorry for not being able to express myself in English I will check with someone who speaks German and see where that gets me. But thanks again for trying!

Regards,

Rainer

[House]

@All

This is not a standard lever because of the control rods.

Notice the tubes that encircle the lever near the pivot point. Inside those tubes are the control rods.

If you look at the pictures on Archer's website, you will see that the rods are able to slide out of the tubes towards the short end.

When the counterweight is place on the extended end and the large weight is lifted, the control rods slide back into the tubes towards the extended end. Now in order to reset the lever = raise the extended end back into the air...you only need enough energy to raise the extended end so that the control rods slide out towards the short end and the control rods will raise the extended end up the rest of the way.

The weights still need to be reset as Archer explained, but has not shown yet.

[ramset]

Dark star a good person to contact would be Helmut {I hope his internet is working now]

[House]

@All

I also believe that the tension lines attached to the lever are only there to stop the lever from flexing. Remember this very long lever is a series of aluminum rods strapped together and would flex considerably without the tension lines (resulting in a loss of energy).

[exxcomm0n]

@ MrKai

Dude,

You've finally come to the realization that there are true things outside of books.........

AND you admit it!

I'm proud of you! (even though you have yet to answer the other questions I posed, this is a hallmark moment and I shall not try to denigrate it.)

You kind of just did...the "hallmark moment" part. Its really not that deep...but thank you, I think, nonetheless.

You don't get me...at all, but that's OK

-K

.....and you don't get me.

It's K (short for OK), and demonstrates historical human interaction.
Yet you have gained a degree of my respect in admitting that we BOTH didn't "get" Archer until he broke the concept down into a physical demonstration.
This is the 1st recognized behavior of civilization according to sociologists.

I may not "get" you and you may not "get" me. The important thing is that we reasoned it out and threw words instead of stones.
But it took Archer throwing the metaphorical stone of his demonstration for us to realize that we were both thinking beings struggling with a concept.

A hard enough venture when there isn't a "law" standing in the way.

You have earned a measure of my respect as well because you are willing to say quite publicly that your former confusion of the concept just needed for it to be "explained" in a different way to recognize it.

This is the mark of a man worth listening to, reasoning with, and sharing the joy of discovery.

P.S. My friends tell me that they are surprised that my cheeks don't have bloody, ragged holes in them from my tongue pushing into them so hard and frequently.
Quite a bit of my content should be reasoned as having that behavior applied.

In other words........

Dude, I'm just silly!

C'mon, I play with toys for Gawd's sake!



Still and all, I respect you for coming back and saying that there is the possibility that you didn't quite understand.

That is the mark of a man.