Posted by Darren (208.143.232.66) on May 20, 2003 at 09:19:32:
In Reply to: Re: Darren posted by John Collins on May 20, 2003 at 07:59:34:
: JC:- Bear in mind of course that Bessler's one-way wheel started from a stand-still and therefore did not need CF to turn.
Ahhh, but if there are weights that are not "pinned" to anything, free-floating so to speak... and CF helps these weights to "find" a beneficial postition... then after you run the wheel for a few revolutions the "free-floating" weights will be "in position" and the wheel will want to turn on it's own... but it took CF to get it into that state... and when you add more CF the weight moves into that "beneficial position" more rapidly, hence the acceleration up to top RPM. Once you reach a certain RPM the weights are trying to move at too extreme an angle and cannot get there any sooner... so the speed of the wheel is self-governed.
Darren