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Thank you! The wheel is not vertical but horizontal but that should still get me pretty much the answer I need.

Dr.D All I am asking for is the basic math to figure out if I push down with 3000 lbs on a wheel rolling down a side of an 18 degree angle how much force would be trying to move the angle sideways if there was no friction and the wheel can only go up and down. It's been 40 years since...

Oh yea. There is an old design out there that worked I could copy if I wanted to but I want to run this on solar hot water. That would take a big stirling engine to get any real power out of it. I've got a better design for a simple Minto wheel too but that would cost me about $1100 to build...

I think you misunderstood my drawing there. That larger wheel is fixed on an axle that doesn't turn. The small wheel that will be attached to the air spring which is attached to the outer 8 sided wheel frame is what will be rotating about the fixed wheel in the center as shown in the big...

This is probably obvious to the folks good with math but it's been 40 years since school for me and I was never a math wizard. I basically need a formula to figure out the picture below. 3000 lbs pushing down on an incline of 18.1 degrees - I need to know how much force would be moving the...

I suggest connecting your vent line to that elbow between V2 and V3. But instead of an elbow use a T fitting there and connect the vent line to the top of the T. That should prevent siphoning from happening while allowing the over flow function to work without any problems. Also as an extra...

For the short period of time your wanting the power changing to much smaller batteries (due to less weight) and going up in voltage is really about the only way it's going to happen. More voltage will give you the watt increase for power and using smaller batteries will solve the weight...

Glurth, I've been working on some ideas kind of in the same area you might want to look at for ideas. The page on my site is : http://www.packratworkshop.com/minipwrwater.htm I've been trying to come up with all sorts of variations on the theme of using solar heated hot water for an...

Try searching for electric scooter motors/repair parts. There are many places on the net that sell them. They come in many sizes and a smaller one would work for your description of needs. A 250-300w version would probably work well for you. These are normally brushed motors. Some even...

Your setting up a standard design for a typical turbine. Yes, I know that wire I used was small and what it is rated for. It was the only way I could to get the coils flat enough for the thin magnets to have any worthwhile affect. I wasn't suggesting you do the same. I just told you how...

It all depends on what you want to do. I've built one a couple of years ago using the same pretty much the same size and type magnets and I suggest to try a search on building wind turbines. Don't expect to get more than about 12 volts and 1 amp out of it if your using it for battery charging...

That turbine disk pump isn't going to pump air (it's not designed for air) and you can't generate enough air pressure blowing into the inlet to open that outlet spring. You could probably use compressed air at the pump inlet to make it open and allow air to flow through it but that wouldn't...

@Jim You meant that as humourous but what makes you think that they don't have last names too? "fwee-ooo" might just be from pod "ooo-eee-fwa-eee" Personally I think any animal that is smart enough to interact with others in subjects other than just eating and mating probably does...

There is a brass alloy that is slightly magnetic. It has 1-2% of iron in it. It used to be used quite often for coating ships bottoms to prevent critters from attaching themselves. As far as I know it's not used anymore. It won't really stick to a magnet though other than with a real slight...

That won't work unless both turbines ran at exactly the same speed and were just alike. They will just short each other out. You can put rectifiers on each turbine before the charge controller and feed them both into it but the turbines will still tend to 'fight' each other electrically as...