Recent content by Averagesupernova

I hate to sound like this, but if you have to ask you shouldn't be messing with it. 400 volts is a bit much to be playing with. - That's like asking what the smallest bucket you can use to carry stuff. How much stuff do you need to carry? Do you see why my opinion of don't mess with it makes...

@Baluncore so what's your point? There's no end to analysis if willing to put in the effort.

Other than the title of this thread and the fact that there is a quite clear image of the device I'm not sure of anything else the OP has said or expects other than a defined input and output.

Well of course. That's what I've tried to say all along and I've explained that additional component groups are required to get to a fully functional continuously variable transmission and they do exist. Of course they are not lossless as nothing is. - This thread has turned into a train wreck...

I'm not sure what the idea actually is. I don't think the OP ever said specifically that the way to achieve varying speed is to apply braking in one place or another. That has been implied by other posters. I've found the OP's posts somewhat confusing and the video showed virtually nothing...

That was my point.

We can apply a braking force to part of a differential to control output speed. This is equivalent to using a series resistor as a voltage regulator. It only works with a constant load.

Look at what the OP has defined as the input and output of the setup in question. What differentials are or aren't supposed to do is irrelevant. We have been given a combination of gears, etc. and the input and output defined. That's what we have to work with.

As he defined it, the input and output are the differential carriers. My thoughts are that it outputs whatever is input, no matter what. - He said: I then replied in post #10 explaining my position which has remained unchanged. He then replies: So which is it? In one post he claims it was...

That is no CVT. Apparently it is still disagreed on just how it will behave but it is most definitely not a CVT. Applying power on one input and allowing a different part to slip by a varying amount to get a varying speed out does not qualify it to be a CVT. I can do that with belts, a clutch...

Define "works".

Fair enough. I'll know that 10 * 10 = 100 while someone else can count up 10 sets of 10 and come to the same answer. This sort of thing is that familiar to me. I gave an example of why it is that familiar. ;)

Fine. Replace the yellow/black gear pairs in the OP with sets of roller chains and sprockets. Same ratio as the gears. Do you think this actually changes anything except the direction of rotation? It will now be even closer. It's silly to say it's an analogy.

Does no one have a comment on my observation that the scenario the OP has posted is identical to a pair of automotive rear axles rolling along?

The input and output will always be the same. Saying they aren't is like saying that 1 + 1 = 2 except when it doesn't. - My example of the automotive differentials should explain why the differential carrier speeds have to be the same no matter what.