preoccupied,preoccupied wrote:I'm happy you decided to look at my post James. I wish I could understand what you are talking about but as usual none of it makes sense. Do you have a college degree in anti-communication?
If you already built it does it work!?! The long lever has the most torque when it first starts so having multiple application of that first larger torque could cause one weight to be reloaded. If you can imagine it the two moving weights from two machines might not be enough so a third machine could be added. From the first two machines the first weight would be slightly closer to being reloaded than with just the first machine and the third machine's moving weight could be enough to cause the first weight to be reloaded. If one weight can be reloaded then the machine can operate under the force of gravity. Only one weight needs to be reloaded at a time.
There is a simple build you can do to understand what I said. Build a cross lever, one arm that has levers on both ends and pivots in the middle.
Try it with the lever being perpindicular to the force of gravity, that would be the 3 & 9 o'clock positions.
Then try the lever at the 6 & 12 o'clock positions.
Both times you think you will have over balance (a weight will be further from center on one side/moveable lever), the lever will try to back spin.
Both times will be for a different reason. Understanding both helps.
After this, it gets complex.
James (aka P-Mo)