Recent content by nuncoop

Thanks guys for all the suggestions and advice! I'll keep working on it and post more questions if I have any.

I might have phrased that wrong. Ideally I'd like to use a motor like the one's found in hard disk drives, as they are compact enough for the application I will be using them in. I know that as you increase the rpm, the wattage and voltage you get out of the motor increases. What I wanted to...

When I hooked the motor up to a digital multimeter I could definitely feel the resistance. The reading on the multimeter was roughly 17 volts as I was cranking it. I then attached the leads to the nichrome wire about 1 inch apart, and although there was a significant amount of resistance, the...

Ok, I'm rather new to electronics as I've only taken a high school-level electronics class and that was several years ago. Right now I'm trying to put together a low power heater consisting of a length of nickel chromium wire and a DC or stepper motor. What I'd like to do eventually is be able...

I forgot to include the link >> http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2006/08/seaweed_the_better_capacitor.html

I found something interesting the other day. Apparently this research group over in France has developed this type of capacitor from seaweed and a biopolymer that performs better in some cases than more expensive commercial capacitors. Its fairly old news, but I haven't been able to find any...

I like to think outside the box :) I am not a physics major, nor am I particularly good at math, and that is one of the main reasons why I come on these forums. I have learned more here then anywhere else, and am very grateful for all feedback that I have received. On another note, I have been...

How about a good, preferably free 3d design tool that I can use to do up a couple diagrams :) any suggestions?

Does anybody have an idea as to what types of equations I need to use in order to figure out the energy capacity of a ring-like flywheel? Are they more or less the same as a traditional disk based flywheel?

Sorry, I just thought to include the single flywheel in my diagram. If completely assembled it should look something like a gyroscope in a box, the box being the support structure for the gyrsocope. The rings would move about freely (like in a gyroscopic) whichever way the forces are acting on...

But my idea is to incorporate the flywheel into the gimbal system itself, negating the need for a separate gimbal system needed to stabalize the gyroscopic forces.

Right, but picture these rings in a gyroscope formation. Would this not save space, allowing us to use more flywheels at a slower, safer speed?

Ok here is a quick diagram I did up not too long ago. Its rough, I'm working on a mac and I had to download a paint program which I'm not too family with (quite buggy :S).

Oops, ok, I just read up on the forum rules and discovered that I'm not allowed to post pictures. I can email it to whoever is interested in seeing it though, through attachment. The best way I can describe it is as a ring within a ring, attached in the normal gimbaled-arrangement to another...

Hehe I like that. I'll do up a quick sketch and have it up by tomorrow. How do I post pictures?