Recent content by Averagesupernova

I'm not sure what you are really asking here. If you are replying to: ...then you have missed the point.

Some things are. Some are not. - I pay most of my bills by check. Some bills I get simply say that it is due upon receipt. Some say it is due at the first of the month and it arrived in my mailbox only a few days before the first of the month. These are tactics used to get people over to direct...

I also once saw a snafu where there was a transistor that was substituted out for a different one. The pin out was different so where the leads came out on the new one meant that it needed to be rotated a third of a turn compared to what the legend on the board said. Yes, this was back in the...

Understandable. That blame can be placed on whoever wrote up the procedure. Having written assembly instructions for production workers, I would say that is a fail. - Describing things that are never referenced from a back side is different. To me clockwise and counter clockwise is just as...

Concerning clockwise vs counter clockwise: - In a previous life I did a bit of phone tech support in conjunction with being a service tech. I would have customers ask about a certain trim pot that was normal to adjust in the field at the time of installation. Based on what they would tell me...

Yep. No one needs to make sure when describing a roundabout that the direction is from the perspective of looking down onto it and not up as if being underground. I find it disturbing that anyone could possibly think teaching swimming through videos is 'good enough'.

Hmm. Interesting.

Yes. Now imagine looking up definitions of North, South, East and West only to find: At sunrise if you are facing the sun you are facing East and West is behind you while South is on the right and North is on the left. Circularity in definitions. That sort of thing seems trivial but I'd imagine...

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.