@All,
The diagrams show how I am considering the basic forces. Since i am building, what the heck. And inertia is 90° perpendicular to the axis of rotation.
Centrifugal force is any direction in a straight line away from the axis of rotation. And linear and angular momentum, the over balanced weight is actually angular momentum.
Since gravity is a linear force, I calculate the extra potential as linear momentum and the weights when stationary as angular moment. This basically considers the wheel as a whole.
This allows for considering 2 opposing weights 20 in. from center. If the weight at 90° after TDC rolls out 1 in. and the weights are 1 lb. each, then the over balance is 1 in. lb. of torque.
And since the weight swings to a position of balance, it's force is actually 1/2 in. lb. of torque. And if this design works, then by using a standard arrangement of force and calculations, then if bigger and better is desired, there will be a basis to understand design changes.
@AB Hammer, This is how I talk wheel. In the years I have known you, you have said that you have just as much right to anything I am working on. You don't. this thread is about what I am building and not what you want it to be.
Still, you could only have known I got banned from a wood working forum if you were there. And yet you are not a wood worker and you constantly say I am wrong 100% of the time.
If you don't understand math or science, you really have nothing credible to add. After all, you have said many times that none of Bessler's drawings are runners.
If what I am building works, I think if I ask Scott nicely, he will ban you for the years long smear campaign.
Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its state of motion, including changes to its speed and direction. It is the tendency of objects to keep moving in a straight line at constant velocity.
Centrifugal force (from Latin centrum, meaning "center", and fugere, meaning "to flee") is the apparent force that draws a rotating body away from the center of rotation. It is caused by the inertia of the body.
Jim L
To simplify, CF effect is all that is really needed. Otherwise a nice picture.
P.S. It would be nice if you post a link on things I was supposed to have said. Now when you cant people will know that is a lie.