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[Joel Wright]

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 5:22 am Post subject: re: Joel Wright's Ideas

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I am adding this previous post explaining the swinging weights and the set of the angle that they travel within. One correction is the angle is 11.25 either direction and a total of 22.5
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Hi Verge Your wheel design is remarkable simular to my model that I ve been building, it is showing encourging promise.Since I realized that the angles of the toy hammer men could be important clues.{see post below}I don't have the computer equipment such as camera,s or the knowledge to use them so I can't post pictures.Imagine your posted design as a disk for mounting purposes OF CYNDRICAL WEIGHTS.If we take the moveable spokes{weights} and have them pivot half way between the hub and the rim from one end of the weight,with stops limting their movement at 22.5 in either direction from parallel.Straight up at the top of wheel the weights must swing in either direction 22.5 degrees.Imagine a logger running on top of a log.The weight must hit the stops in the middle of the weight.Think of this as hitting a hammer not with the head but as stubbing the handle against the edge of a table, the hammer(WEIGHT) wants to throw with more force this way.The stops set at 22.5 in either direction of weights parallel,total 45 degrees provide for dynamic balance around the travel of the wheel.As glorious as a peacocks tail.When I spin my as yet uncomplete wheel the weights sound like a horse clopping along the road. Leaf springs tension matched to the weight of the weights must be positioned to push or flip the cyindrical weights on its end pivot at 23.5 degrees before top dead center.The weight rest on the spring as it travels on the circular up movement, the weight of the weight compresses the spring resetting it against its previous stop,to cause its flipping movement at 23.5 degrees before top dead center.This does two things overbalances the top of the wheel and provides impact which drives the wheel.I believe the reason my wheel as of yet does'nt spin on its own is due to the fact that I don't have the proper swinging weight to fly wheel mass ratio.I think I need a ratio of 100 to 1.Fly wheel mass 100 pounds to spring loaded swinging weight mass 1 pound times eight weights.Or maybe I need the fly wheel mass more towards the rim of the wheel ,on the outside(outer side of wheel) of the spring loaded swinging weights I think its possible to have as many as 16 triangular division around the perimeter of a wheel and still have room for the weights to swing properly,but I believe that this is the design that will solve this enigma of Orffyreus.

[agor95]

Hi

How did you device project go?

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