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Jim M
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Hi all.
I have a pet project of mine I have been occasionally taking off the back burner for years. The recent hike in Electrical costs has really cheesed me off and has re-flourished my ambition for this project.
It is a self contained generator. I know the very idea of it exposes me to ridicule but I thought about it many years ago when I was reading a Popular Science mag and it had a segment on perpetual motion generators.
I will state now that my project is NOT perpetual motion, but could be considered perpetual process.
Think clock work… I will give a general overview.
My hopes are for someone to critique it and tell me if I am missing something, because at this point the project seems to me to be valid.
The project is basically a large mass suspended on a chain fall that falls governed by a large escapement. The mass would drive a gear system to run a generator.
The mass would continue to fall until it reaches full stroke (the bottom) and then be rewound by a DC powered winch.
The fall of the mass would be very slow and the mass itself very heavy to power the gear system and provide both the required RPM and Toque to run the generator.
During the rewind cycle a second unit would work in series to cover the voltage loss from the first unit’s generator voltage drop.
Together both machines could continue to function and provide constant electricity and trickle charge a DC system in parallel to work the DC winches for the rewind cycles.
I actually have a majority of the parts required to assemble a prototype, but I am hesitant to sink any serious money into it.
I am weak on the applications of the physics of this unit. I have been out of school for many years. But I do know that the mechanics are really simple and work out.
I do have some suspicions around the escapement, but I have designed a rather smooth operating escapement that I think will minimize the slap in the gear train. Also installing the escapement very near to the mass’s chain fall (within the gear system) will minimize the slap effect. (Effectively bleeding it out over the tolerance of the gear mesh throughout the rest of the gear system.)
Any criticism on the theory of this?
Thanks
Jim
I have a pet project of mine I have been occasionally taking off the back burner for years. The recent hike in Electrical costs has really cheesed me off and has re-flourished my ambition for this project.
It is a self contained generator. I know the very idea of it exposes me to ridicule but I thought about it many years ago when I was reading a Popular Science mag and it had a segment on perpetual motion generators.
I will state now that my project is NOT perpetual motion, but could be considered perpetual process.
Think clock work… I will give a general overview.
My hopes are for someone to critique it and tell me if I am missing something, because at this point the project seems to me to be valid.
The project is basically a large mass suspended on a chain fall that falls governed by a large escapement. The mass would drive a gear system to run a generator.
The mass would continue to fall until it reaches full stroke (the bottom) and then be rewound by a DC powered winch.
The fall of the mass would be very slow and the mass itself very heavy to power the gear system and provide both the required RPM and Toque to run the generator.
During the rewind cycle a second unit would work in series to cover the voltage loss from the first unit’s generator voltage drop.
Together both machines could continue to function and provide constant electricity and trickle charge a DC system in parallel to work the DC winches for the rewind cycles.
I actually have a majority of the parts required to assemble a prototype, but I am hesitant to sink any serious money into it.
I am weak on the applications of the physics of this unit. I have been out of school for many years. But I do know that the mechanics are really simple and work out.
I do have some suspicions around the escapement, but I have designed a rather smooth operating escapement that I think will minimize the slap in the gear train. Also installing the escapement very near to the mass’s chain fall (within the gear system) will minimize the slap effect. (Effectively bleeding it out over the tolerance of the gear mesh throughout the rest of the gear system.)
Any criticism on the theory of this?
Thanks
Jim