Greendoor get's what he wants so bad.

[path_finder]

Dear nicbordeaux,
My personnal opinion about the yoyo has been given yet here:
http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/download.php?id=7704
The question now is: why I did not made any experiment based on this principle?
Perhaps because this seems to be too much theoretical and not really acceptable?

[AB Hammer]

alexjrgreen

The outer ring will be canceled out due the the speed it will have to be driven from the inner ring. This has been looked at before. From all the stories I have read from Doc and others. There is an extra pendulum mechanism that causes the imbalance to make it work. So due to all that has been tried you need to figure what from the outside of the wheel will make it work.

Alan

[path_finder]

Dear ABHammer,
you said

There is an extra pendulum mechanism that causes the imbalance to make it work

You could be right but not exactly by the way you are thinking.
IMHO the pendulum is not the engine of the unbalance (as the main active primemover), but almost at the origin of the unbalanced motion:
let's see it only as a transporter, using it's alternative speed for organising the exchange between the both rims (picking a weight at the right time and deposing it at the opposite position).
This way of view can change everything. Just a suggestion.

[beapilot]

Edited:

Sent Greendoor the message in private.

[docfeelsgood]

Alexjrgreen & whoever ;

the inside wheel is NOT pulling the outer , its Vice Versa ! the inside wheel is just feeding the weights to the outer at the proper time , and using the pendulum to help move the 14.5 lb. weights in a timely fashion . the pendulum has no bearing on "out of balance" . the lever system and pendulum system speeded up the weight transfer between wheels .

[nicbordeaux]

Thx for the link pathfinder. The nswer to your question is yes, and yes but in a much simpler form than your mech which is ingenius, just one fixed mass, one yoyo. No need for a ratchet.