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Re: A new perspective on Overbalanced Wheel
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The box that contains the swinging weight & the ball, calls it either compartment or quarter or section.
When the ball roll inward/outward thus increasing torque force to one side, the wheel has to balance by raising the next ball up, or the wheel raise up one quarter/compartment.
Notice the process of balancing doesn't cause the wheel to make one big complete revolution, rather only raise one quarter up or revolve a small degree.
And by increasing the number of quarters/compartments, multiple balls will be rolling inward/outward at the same time;
- with one ball rolling more than half-way down,
- another only half-way,
- another just start to roll down;
which results in the wheel raising the quarters up simultaneously. From the eye-witness/onlooker's perspective, it would give them the impression of the wheel doing a big rotation, but actually the wheel is only revolving small degrees spontaneously.
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A person can walk with ease when he is not doing any work.
But when the person is carrying a heavy load, he will end up walking slow with difficulty.
When a person is turning a hand-crank generator, but the generator is not powering any appliances, he will find it easy to rotate it.
But when the generator is powering some appliances, he will find resistance turning the hand-crank.
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As the core concept of the wheel rotation is based on having one side of torque force higher than the other, the leftover after subtracting the torque force from both sides will determine the energy output or useful power (which will be very small).
And that energy output will affect the rotation speed of the wheel. When the output is not being used, the wheel will rotate normally. But when using the output to carry some load, the wheel will rotate more slowly.
But as long as the work done (carrying the load) does not exceed the energy output, meaning the torque force on one side is still heavier (but much lesser than before) than the other side, the wheel will still continue to rotate.
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Due to the output energy obtained by subtracting the torque force from both sides of the wheel, will be very small.... so it's not going to be the "holy grail of energy" like what some believe, but rather it's more of the "missing pieces" of renewable energy.
Solar energy
- have sunlight, have output; no sunlight, no output
Wind energy
- have wind, have output; no wind, no output
Hydropower
- limited reservoirs
Perpetual energy
- low output, so most of the time it will be storing up its energy
- when solar & wind energy is low, then releasing its stored output
The role of overbalanced wheel will probably be catered more of a support to solar & wind energy, fill up the cons of solar & wind, making the renewable family more complete.
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Using the lever concept employed by the wheel design to lift up a load.
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Since the output of the lever (or the wheel), after subtracting both sides of torque force, is going to be weak, it's better to keep the workload as close to the fulcrum as possible.
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When lifting up a heavy load, can utilize methods like compound pulley or gearing box etc to lessen the workload of the lever (or wheel).
Utilizing the compound pulley (or other similar techniques),
(a) the wheel uses less output to lift up the heavy load
- without pulley and the load is too heavy, the wheel will not be able to lift it up
- using the pulley, it will be able to
(b) the wheel will take longer to lift up the load
- without the pulley, the wheel might take minutes to lift a load up to a certain altitude
- using the pulley, it might take hours to reach the altitude
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How to increase the overall output efficiency of the overbalanced wheel?
Learn from the solar & wind energy,
(a) build bigger
- one good feature of overbalanced wheel is its potential to be able to construct bigger.
(b) build more, build a lot more
- and since the structure of the wheel isn't complicated (just weights & wheels etc), can collaborate with Waste Management, using recycled waste products as the raw materials for the wheel construction, thus contributing to waste reduction.
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When the wheel is rotating, there will come other factors that may serve some unique functions.
Due to the inertia of heavy ball, these balls tend not to roll down instantly under normal condition;
but during the rotation of the wheel,
(a) some balls will experience a push which will speed up their rolling down action
(b) some balls will further delay their rolling down, and this phenomenon can uniquely function as a speed regulation to control the rotation of the wheel
(c) some balls might even result not acting on the wheel, or the wheel will experience near zero torque from some of the balls
But all the features occur during the rotation can only be considered a bonus, as when the wheel is doing work, the rotation will slow down, so most of the rotating features will end up having little use.
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A pendulum, when drop from its displaced position, will swing and past through its equilibrium position, then swing back.
Comparing with the overbalanced wheel, rather than having the acceleration swinging back-and-forth of the pendulum, the rotation of the wheel is of constant RPM, so how will the ball within the wheel react?
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Due to the inertia of the ball, especially the heavy one, it will take some time before the ball can change its state of rest to motion (a.k.a rolling down). So before the ball start to roll down, the rotation of the wheel will have push (or drag, but carry would be a more appropriate word) the ball further forward, away from the center.
Depending on the rotation speed of the wheel,
the faster the rotation, the further the ball got drag forward;
the slower the rotation, the ball only got carry slightly forward.
And since the vector of the ball is pointing away from the center line (equilibrium position) when the ball is push forward by the wheel's rotation, it will contribute very little to the total torque force on the ascending side of the wheel.
But then again the balls near the equilibrium would already have very little torque force (zero torque force at equilibrium position), so it hardly make any huge different.
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When the ball rolls down along the circular rim of the wheel, it does have the effect of dragging the wheel along, thus the wheel will rotate along the same direction as the roll down ball.
But when comparing with the ball that pushes the wheel down, the force exert by the push is much greater than the drag, thus the wheel will rotate along with the push.
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A side info
When the ball rolls down, it drags the wheel along with it;
(a) for a lightweight wheel, having lower inertia, easier to rotate
(b) for a heavyweight wheel (like a flywheel), having higher inertia, much harder to rotate
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A side info
I push a light ball (lower inertia), I can easily move it.
But when I push a heavy ball (higher inertia), not so easy.
When a ball is resting on the wheel, either I push the wheel or a small weight is placed on the wheel;
(a) for a light ball (lower inertia), the wheel can rotate easily,
(b) but for a heavy ball (higher inertia), harder for the wheel to rotate.
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If I continuously supply a force to a balanced wheel, it should keep rotating faster & faster, increasing its RPM. Thus the theory that for an overbalanced wheel, its RPM would keep increasing non-stop.... until it destroys the world (funny believe)...
What if there is an mechanism within the wheel that can regulate the RPM, preventing the wheel's rotation from increasing ?
Refer to image.
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As the ball may take some time before it can start to roll down, so
- the faster the wheel rotates (higher RPM),
- the higher the ball rises (before it start to roll down),
- the more the torque force increases (as the ball is still further from the axis),
- the heavier the ascending side of the wheel becomes (or lighter on the descending side),
- which causes the wheel to slow down, thus regulating the speed
* regardless of whether a heavy ball or a light ball, both roll down at the same time.... like dropping two different mass of objects and both will reach the ground at the same time.
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With the speed regulating function, the wheel rotates in a constant RPM. And when doing work, like lifting up a load etc, the wheel can still rotate in constant RPM, but with much slower speed.
Doing work is basically adding more torque force on the ascending side, thus slowing down the wheel. But make sure after that addition of force, the total torque force on the descending side must still be larger than the ascending.
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A side knowledge
Like dropping objects of different sizes & weighs, and those objects will land at the same time;
the same can be found with balls of different sizes & weighs, roll down & reach the ground at the same time, regardless of their sizes & weighs (but it doesn't apply to all situations)
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A side knowledge
Comparing the circles (with different size & weigh) rolling down at a gradual & steep slopes, and circles falling down vertically.
Most will know objects drop down will reach the ground at the same time, but the circles rolling down the slope can also behave the same, even though the rolling circles have surface contact while another are free-falling.
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Different sizes and weighs of the circles, when rolling down a slope, may reach the ground at the same time; but that doesn't apply for all type of situations.
Comparing between center-heavy, solid & hollow circles
- center-heavy circle rolls down faster
- hollow circle rolls the slowest
- solid circle in-between
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Utilizing how the hollow, solid & center-heavy weights behave when rolling down, implement it to the swinging weights.
- with hollow swinging weight, the rolling ball takes longer to lift the weight up.
- with center-heavy swinging weight, the ball has a faster reaction to lift up the weight.
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