Posted by emphryio (157.182.42.219) on July 08, 2002 at 13:19:44:
In Reply to: Re: Bessler Observations posted by Scott Ellis on July 04, 2002 at 21:48:43:
I've reached the point where I'm not concerned with getting
the patent (and money) so much and I'm just interested in
seeing it done somehow.
I've made two wheels so far and I'm getting discouraged.
The first was just fooling around. The second needed to be
more delicate and precise than I'm capable of making. A third
I've thought of would also need be extremely delicate, and precise
and way too time consuming.
The second:
Simply find a way to apply the centrifugal force from a wheel.
Very simple idea. No need to explain further. But I can't make
it. Pins to hold the wheel's weights in certain positions in the
revolution of the wheel would be needed. The only way I can think
of using pins would take too much energy away from the wheel.
In the way I tried, the pins wouldn't work when the wheel was
spinning fast enough for centrifugal force to overtake gravity.
The third:
A basic unbalanced wheel. On the heavy side the
weights fall down into place farther away from the sum of
the moments (pivot/center). But the force of the weights
falling into place contracts a spring
(or rubber band) and catches the weight (using some sort of pin?)
with the spring staying contracted. When the weight makes it
around to the light side of the wheel. The spring is released.
The weight is pushed back somewhat towards the heavy side. Where
it is "caught" somehow by a pin or something.
Problems:
1. Finding a way for the pins to work without taking much
energy away from the wheel.
2. The side where the weights are falling down and contracting the
springs/rubber bands is the same direction that the wheel
would be spinning. Will this cause the springs to actually not
contract hardly at all? I think it wouldn't matter. The wheel
would just spin a bit slower. There would be an inbetween speed
that would be fast enough to overcome friction but slow enough
for the springs/rubber bands to still contract enough.
But I can't build it.
3. No time. Too many other things I'm interested in.
Not too mention having to work for a living.