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AB Hammer

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #45 on: February 23, 2011, 12:01:55 AM »
@ All, thanks for the eye openers.

@mdmiller, could the missing component be a couple of simple stoppers? I'm not
completely sure about their current placement, but the idea should be clear.

http://img573.imageshack.us/img573/4971/gw1k.jpg

btw, how do I embed the picture into the post? just by attaching?

You need to look at this string of mine from 08. It might help you.

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=5226.0

Alan

spiralout

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #46 on: February 23, 2011, 12:21:06 AM »
You need to look at this string of mine from 08. It might help you.

Well it didn't... any other suggestions, officer gravity?

AB Hammer

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #47 on: February 23, 2011, 03:19:57 AM »
Well it didn't... any other suggestions, officer gravity?

Find another approach. ;)

Look back at old strings and you will find many of the same things over and over again. Anyone who has tried the gravity wheels have done things that have been tried before. It is unavoidable. To find a new approach is where you can find what you are trying to achieve. ;)

Alan

PS WOW I have never been called "officer gravity" before.  LOL

guruji

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #48 on: March 10, 2011, 08:30:50 PM »
Posted a vid on my last gravity wheel idea.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaOjUcPDbVU

Low-Q

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #49 on: March 20, 2011, 03:14:00 PM »
Gravity wheels are ALL about potential energy. If the weights are going as much upwards as it is going downwards, there is no point what so ever to try making a gravity wheel. All parts in a gravity wheel are ALWAYS limited within a given radius. This is the very reason why gravitywheels, regardless of its design, will never work.
Try find something else to do. Wind power, sun power, power from heat exchange. Gravity wheels will always be a dead end.

Vidar

guruji

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #50 on: March 27, 2011, 10:21:25 PM »
No gravity wheels do work if one finds the way to always unbalance one side from the other.

protech

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #51 on: March 28, 2011, 03:09:53 PM »
gravity wheels ? think half wheel only way to unbalance the process, the idea is to be lifting less weight than going down. here is a idea

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #52 on: March 28, 2011, 09:28:15 PM »
Protech good idea it seems to work did you try to build this?
Thanks

DreamThinkBuild

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #53 on: March 28, 2011, 10:28:51 PM »
Hi Protech,

Maybe replace the blocks with heavy washers? This would reduce the friction of having to flip them around corners, they will just roll over the ends.

protech

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #54 on: March 28, 2011, 10:58:09 PM »
Hi Protech,

Maybe replace the blocks with heavy washers? This would reduce the friction of having to flip them around corners, they will just roll over the ends.

the idea of the blocks with the slot are to provide a weight drop and as the shafts are all turning there is no drag. Just a rollover till it drops , But keep the idea,s coming my Idea is like a half wheel it all looks good on paper

protech

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #55 on: March 28, 2011, 11:13:12 PM »
Protech good idea it seems to work did you try to build this?
Thanks
not yet no build,
 I realized that even if it were to function well the amount of torque it would produce would be minimal like gravity wheels, unless it was the size of a 3 story building.

HOWEVER I was Serious enough to buy a milling machine though .... then I had another idea of a catch and release pendulum this is in the works. sure takes a lot of time though.

DreamThinkBuild

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #56 on: March 30, 2011, 12:53:31 AM »
Hi Protech,

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The idea of the blocks with the slot are to provide a weight drop and as the shafts are all turning there is no drag. Just a rollover till it drops.

Ok, I see. Your design is very interesting, worth testing to see if working or not.

AB Hammer

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #57 on: March 30, 2011, 01:49:44 AM »
protech

 Nice thought pattern. You will learn a lot from this build.


Alan

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #58 on: March 30, 2011, 03:24:48 PM »
please note the vector component of the force mg (weight = mass X gravity) in the slanding rope is mg cos theta , the perpendicular rope the force  is mg..

so 17 X mg cos theta = 7 x mg

please measure the angle and check

please see the attachment


quantumtangles

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Re: Easy Gravity wheel
« Reply #59 on: May 07, 2011, 05:23:32 PM »
Wow. I loved all your posts. Gravity wheels don't work but I really enjoyed reading this. Very amusing.