Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[mondrasek]

mondrasek,

I think the slots are deliberately asymmetric...

"The weights are applied two by two: one weight is pushing/falling, the other one has to be lifted."

This is the key.

Ron

I believe that opposite slots must be identical.  The falling weight referred to is in the slot between 12 and 6.  The lifted one is at 180 degrees, on the 6 to 12 side.

In any one of these types of wheels they should be able to be made with just one pair of weights.  There must be a torque sum from just one pair:  the falling of one weight produces more torque than it takes to raise the other.  Then you add more pairs to increase the torque.  In a non running design where you have two weights and no output torque, adding more weight pairs further decreases the ability of that system to run e. g. rundown tests will be even slower with more pairs.

So it would be possible to test the design with just two identical slots 180 degrees apart and compare that to the output of another pair and so on, by running only one pair at a time and taking measurements.  The wheels in the video could show up to 8 different pairs of test designs looking for which slot profile provides the most output torque.

M.

[Cherryman]

Update:

[hartiberlin]

Food for thought attached.

M.

Hi Mondrasek,
without the motor driving the wheel,
this design is not selfrunning.

Here is a screenshot.

Regards, Stefan.

[hartiberlin]

@ guys

Guys,

Newton Cradle is out
The wm2d model is by Cherryman I have used a snapshot to show the path via overlay.

I am making my own right now.

Update: Henkel is now asking ME questions 

Who am I?
Why am I interested in this project?

Hi AquariuZ,
Please send them the exact URL for this thread, so they can have a look at this.
Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

[hartiberlin]

Hmm intresting..

I haven't got time now..  So i give you guys some files to play with...  There are still some barriers left.

Maybe a stupid question, but should we consider the rotation of the earth?  Because a water whirl always wants to go in the same direction, maybe this can influence this as well...  (Not in the software, but IRL )  It might be of any influence to put it in a certain compass direction line-up.

Anyway here are the files.

Hi Cherryman,
the KAD7 file was only this.

Did you forget to post the file with the track-guides for the balls ?

By the way, what should the name KAD stand for ?
Did I miss this ?

Many thanks.
Regards, Stefan.