Tarsier79 wrote:TLW
I know you saved for years, but there is always more than one way to skin a cat. Motors and generators won't give you a definite answer due to unknown efficiencies at certain revs, and inefficiencies of gearboxes. You could have tested much cheaper using another low cost, more accurate device that gives or takes measured torque as you please. All you have to do is understand the similarities between what you want and the humble "Atwoods".
Hi Kaine,
Give me a bit of credit!
Lets look at the humble “Atwoods� Do I fully understand its workings?
As I am the member that devised the indentation test to test the Atwoods device under working conditions. I believe I know how to skin more than one cat.
There is no similarities between the Geo Genny and the Atwoods design, for one there in no overall drop in weight height in my design. I have done some tests on the Geo Genny, and to date with the tests I have done it works as designed thus far.
One of the test was to drive the generators with very large weighted pulleys, I predicted that there would be a negative shift in the devices centre of gravity, but I built it anyway. There was no surprise when the centre of gravity shift was equal to the generators resistance. This is why my device was designed to shift the centre of gravity via the push over wheels when it is constructed, there are other reasons for the push over wheels as well. On the bright side of that build is the levers was turning the generators and it seemed to be only the negative centre of gravity shift the wheel was working against, and not the resistance in the lever and generator pivots which is my main concern! The main GG design feature is that the levers rotate with the generators and there is a sweet high torque 360 angle change between the generators and the levers per 360 turn of the device, using the push over wheel system there is only a minimal shift of the devices centre or gravity when rotating the device.
I stop here and just say that the Geo Genny was design for gearbox driven generators on the other side of the lever shafts and that’s how I will build it, I am expecting a efficiency of at least times two, I will only find out for sure with a full on build.
I am currently building ( a bit at a time if I get any time ) a one lever one generator design using a variation of the Roberval Balance, I am not expecting a lot from this design but I have the gears and chain and wanted to build it to see what “if anything� can be gained by it.
I do not saved as much as I should because I like to enjoy my self, and party a bit. There is no point in working traveling all over the world and country to be confined to your Hotel room, I like to go out and meet people and visit places. When I was in Brazil I would go to Rio on every third weekend and chill out, the first weekend there I flew over Rio in a helicopter, that was one gear box I could have brought, windsurfing holidays and memberships is another.
With Respect as always, Trevor