WATER MOTOR

[hartiberlin]

...and it has been:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterwheel

No, this is not a normal waterwheel !

It works on Osmosis basis.
You do not need a river or running water.

It works more on theprinciple of the drinking bird:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird
but in a constant rotating mode,
which has some opportunity to rotate a load.

it is also gravity assited as the flappers move in and out, so the weight
is shifted, which makes this wheel unblanced and it moves on..

More or less like a Bessler wheel,
but the cause it water evaporation.
It only needs very low quantities of water.
Typically 1 Liter ( a qarter gallon) of water
for a few weeks of contineous operation.

Go for it and build yourself one out of this
paper model.

Regards, Stefan.

[dirt diggler]

Does anyone know if this is similar to what Burt Rutan(the famous aircraft/spacecraft designer) has in his house?  it apparently has been running since he built it, but he says not perpetual, cause you have to add water periodicaly as it evaporates.  in the pics I have seen it looks to be made of plexi glass.

[hartiberlin]

Does anyone know if this is similar to what Burt Rutan(the famous aircraft/spacecraft designer) has in his house?  it apparently has been running since he built it, but he says not perpetual, cause you have to add water periodicaly as it evaporates.  in the pics I have seen it looks to be made of plexi glass.

Do you have some pics of this, so I can have a look ?

I just also bought the above water motor plans
and it is easy to pay via PayPal for instance
or other Payment options
and you will immediately get a 6 Mbytes
ZIP file for download.

It contains a HTML
index.html file
with tons of pictures
as the description
and some
high resolution JPEG pictures
to be printed out.

You can for instance use the
the free very nice IrfanView
program to print this to your needs
and size:
www.irfanview.com

or just use the installed
Windows Paint program,
which is under
Start/Programs/Accessories/Paint
so you do not need to install anything.

Or just drag and drop the JPEG files
into your IE or Firefox browser and print it out from
there..
Then you only need a scissoir and cut the paper out and
glue it together.
Makes a nice toy and you can build it together with your kids,
so they can learn it too...
Better than to watch TV all the time....

Hope this helps.
BTW, there are nice colored Egyptian and Celtic style
color maping styles available also, so if ou have a color printer,
it will look nicely from the start...

Regards, Stefan.

[dirt diggler]

Do you have some pics of this, so I can have a look ?

I just also bought the above water motor plans
and it is easy to pay via PayPal for instance
or other Payment options
and you will immediately get a 6 Mbytes
ZIP file for download.

It contains a HTML
index.html file
with tons of pictures
as the description
and some
high resolution JPEG pictures
to be printed out.

You can for instance use the
the free very nice IrfanView
program to print this to your needs
and size:
www.irfanview.com

or just use the installed
Windows Paint program,
which is under
Start/Programs/Accessories/Paint
so you do not need to install anything.

Or just drag and drop the JPEG files
into your IE or Firefox browser and print it out from
there..
Then you only need a scissoir and cut the paper out and
glue it together.
Makes a nice toy and you can build it together with your kids,
so they can learn it too...
Better than to watch TV all the time....

Hope this helps.
BTW, there are nice colored Egyptian and Celtic style
color maping styles available also, so if ou have a color printer,
it will look nicely from the start...

Regards, Stefan.

these are the pics of Burt Rutans wheel, it looks more like some kind of overbalance wheel, but uses water.

[dirt diggler]

I'm not sure, as the photo is not really clear, but do you think that this is just using controlled leaks into the next chamber, or is there some other method?  I don't see anything other than plexi. no "wicking" material?