Posted by John Collins (194.164.38.41) on February 05, 2003 at 00:16:54:
In Reply to: One more Bessler Offence posted by David on February 04, 2003 at 17:28:50:
: I pointed out in my book about Bessler, that the Kassel wheel reportedly turned a 26 revolutions per minute when running free and 20 revolutions per minute under load. Obviously as it is not currently available and if you have not been able to read it you could not know this. Further more it seems to me that there would of course be a gain in speed from a position of stasis up to the point where the mass of the weights and their reaction to gravity would limit the speed, plus of course the braking action of friction/load. Remember that the wheels which were capable of only turning in one direction would spontaneously begin to turn as soon as the brake was released. They acquired full speed within two or three turns of the wheel. I went into considerable detail in the book about the differences between the two kinds of wheel and I don't wish to rehash it all here and now but suffice to say that the facts concerning both the uni-directional and the bi-directional wheels were completely complimentary to each other and produced a logical outcome.
John C.
Something else that doesn't quite sit well with me. If Bessler did what he said, he would have basically reversed the laws of equalibrium, and with each cycle of his wheel there would be a gain in potential, resulting in an increase in velocity. It was stated however his wheel ran at a consistent rpm. If he had an internal mechanism that dumped the excess gain, it would have to have been fairly sophisticated. Let's say his machine did do this. The other problem then arises that if the wheel had just enough energy to maintain its constant rpm-it would not have enough energy to maintain this rpm when a load was put on the machine, such as the raising of weights. Unless another switching type mechanism was also within the wheel, making this all very complicated and very-very sophisticated.
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