Stewart...
Nice to hear that you are well and being productive Besslerwise. I am looking forward to seeing what you have to present on your own Bessler website. I toyed with the idea of making my own such site a while ago, but I just do not have the time anymore. Just maintaining a "presence" here is enough for me at the moment.
Anyway, good luck with your research and your partnership with Ed. He impressed me as a very knowledgeable and dedicated mobilist.
James Kelley...
Most of the things I learned in school are still true. But, I realized a while ago that the laws of physics and mechanics I learned are not adequate to rationalize what is happening within a working overbalanced gravity wheel. I eventually realized that we must have a new law of motion to cover the operation of such a device. I found that in any truly chronically overbalanced wheel, there will always be a
downward average velocity of its weights.
Whenever this condition exists, the weights must, with each wheel rotation, continuously
lose gravitational potential energy which is converted into the kinetic energy that accelerates the wheel and can perform external work to it. In honor of JB, I've started calling this new law "Bessler's 4th Law of Motion". I have no doubt about it's reality or validity at this point in time.
Fletcher wrote:
If, in a few days, Ralph is successful in duplicating your principle then he will be the second person in modern times to understand that these laws are wrong or incomplete.
Well, we have not heard much from Ralph since I posted a sketch of an "Empty Side / Heavy Side, Peacock's Tail Wheel" on page 28 of this thread...I wonder why? Could it be that the design I came up was close to what Ralph is working on?
In any event, I do wish him well and success with his efforts. However, there is something that is puzzling to me.
Ralph...
I think I recall you stating that you were working on a "modified" version of the wheel design that James Kelly claims he has had running since last July. IF he does indeed have a
working design, then why are you not working on making an
exact copy of that design? Would that not be the better way to verify that he does, indeed, have a working wheel design?
ken
On 7/6/06, I found, in any overbalanced gravity wheel with rotation rate, ω, axle to CG distance d, and CG dip angle φ, the average vertical velocity of its drive weights is downward and given by:
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ