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« on: April 13, 2024, 06:05:52 am »
trying all sorts of little changes and at this point the one thing I have noticed is that when using the 190g weights the system behaves a little differently than when I use more or less.
I add 30g to the output side and the nudge the system and it will slowly fall down a little bit, put it on the input side and I do not have to nudge the system at all. I have tried with my sync point moved, using CW and CCW rotation, switching the weights, so it seems that there is a preferred force direction of change, how much and why, not sure.
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« on: April 13, 2024, 04:25:47 am »
I upped the weight to 270g and things appeared to become more "normal".
Then I thought about the limiter, so I shifted the system one way and not much change then I shifted it the other way and now the output side having the extra 30g goes up, very slowly and I need to nudge things so I am thinking that what I thought was "synced" may be in the wrong place.
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« on: April 13, 2024, 04:07:49 am »
My setup needs some structural parts added but the functional parts are in place well enough for a few basic tests.
My spring scales are problematic in that I need to overload the system to get smooth readings and that drives the system out of sync so that a limiter I have in place comes into play and locks things. While it is in this condition if I pull on the output with 1200g I only need to supply 900g to the input, however if I pull on the input with 900g I only need to supply 1000g to 1050g on the output.
I changed up to dropping weights, each are 90g. When I reset so that the input and output are synced back up the input side has a very slight tendency to fall. I add another 30g to the output side and it has a small tendency to fall. If I give the system a spin it moves further one way more than the other, that is to say that the heavier side will continue to move down further than lifting it up. If I put the 30g on the input side it falls without needing to spin.
I increased the drop mass to 190g and the system seems to be balanced, no tendency to move either way. I add 30g to the output side and it drops fairly quickly, when I move the same 30g to the input side it drops very slowly and will stop moving until I give the system a little push.
Not the results I was hoping for, but not the results I was expecting. I was expecting the system to stay balanced and behave in a normal fashion.
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« on: April 12, 2024, 02:40:11 am »
I watched another attempted replication of the Skinner device and was disappointed at the test-bed. First, it was not the device that was tested and yet it was concluded that the device claims were debunked. If I have a mass sitting on that lower arm that is in a downward position and I activate the system by spinning it up that mass is going to lift upwards via whatever you wish to label the force, gyroscopic, CP, CF or whatever. That direction of force transfer is going to take the lower shaft and force it away from vertical, it is going to PUSH that shaft away and that is the wrong direction of force. This test setup has been tried many times and while the system is moving slowly the mass being lifted by an external means applied to the lower shaft will want to fall and cause rotation,, while moving slowly. If you use a smaller mass and mount it on its own shaft on the end of the lever you can still do this, so a small mass on a post attached to the end of the lower arm raised up some distance from the lever. Activate the system by spinning it up and this time the ???force is going to try and force the small mass away from the center of rotation which then applies a force down on the lower lever it is mounted on, and that tries then to PULL the shaft away from vertical. You now have 2 forces acting on the mass with both of them trying to make the mass move down and PULL the shaft away from vertical. Why would someone want to use a bent driveshaft to connect things together? Worse yet why would they also use ball joints on the driveshaft? There is no way that shaft can pass a torque, you can try and stop that shaft from spinning or try to spin it up and no torque is transferred. If then for a moment you consider a deconstructed swash plate, more precisely a 3 plate swash plate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SwashplateIf you think this through you might start to think that the lower system and upper system combined together has a feedback mechanism that forces the upper arm to rotate. The middle plate is not in alignment and that mass on that middle arm\plate is going to do what when it is spun up, which way is that force flowing? My test-bed had all of these relationships being a rather sensitive balance of forces, interactions and reactions. I could for a moment achieve an interesting result but it was very easy to loose the sync and over spin the system or take to much out or not enough,, it was very temperamental and I did not have the patience to try and work it all through. I concluded that the system would not be practical as it was shown and that as it was shown it was not setup to actually function as described. This is just my opinion of course.
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« on: April 09, 2024, 04:07:19 am »
I think I might of found the pathway that I need to interact with, it is not really the way I thought it would be.
I am printing off more slightly changed parts, I keep getting the slop and printer error and stuff a little off so I get into either a miss or a bind and keep making small changes to get each part to fit and work together, it was in going over all this so many times that I saw what might stop the system from doing what I wanted it to do, that is provide me with a 1:1.314 gain in work.
Now to print more parts and see what I see, then print more parts from there.
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« on: April 05, 2024, 06:05:00 am »
the systems are not equidistant from the shaft so I am thinking that it is the difference that is providing for this interaction, however to counter the one side adds a force into the whole system so I would need to counter each system relative to the central shaft.
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« on: April 05, 2024, 05:38:55 am »
just double checking things.
the lighter weight is 70g, the lighter weight is 50mm from the central shaft
the heavier weight is 90g, the heavier weight is 55mm from the central shaft
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« on: April 05, 2024, 05:23:29 am »
While I am trying to figure out how to design things I tried something silly and it has me a little confused.
I have holes in the pulleys so I can secure a string, I ran that string across the system to the other pulley and out through that hole so now I have a limited motion of no slipping.
I thought that I could use a weight for the input and output comparison, and I thought that it should go one side heavier and one side lighter to balance.
The whole thing rotates around on a central shaft and when I have the weights equidistant from that shaft the weight value is opposite of what I thought. What I have right now is 60g going down on one side of the shaft to 90g going up on the other side @the same distance of drop,,, roughly speaking. Making the system shift either direction is actually rather easy and light feeling and it seems as though the path I choose the string to take has an impact as well.
I thought that the 90g going down should lift 90g and that to balance the forces I should add to the lift side where what I seem to have is that the lift side is taking less input,, maybe I am identifying the sides backwards??
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« on: April 05, 2024, 03:20:22 am »
I will say that if I ignore the go-between part the math holds true that the if input side is a value of 1 then the output side is a value of 1.314, that is just mechanics at work.
So I am needing to test for the go-between part, which by itself is performing no added work, it is simply transferring the input to the output like a belt does for a pulley, or an idler gear,, and the like.
When the belt is not slipping it looks possible but when trying to load the belt slips and then no results to be had.
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« on: April 05, 2024, 03:11:08 am »
Made some quick parts for some quick tests.
I am using both gears and pulleys. The gears are 1:1 between systems but not to the go-between part, the pulleys are a 1:1 and connect all the gears together.
My input forces gears to move around the go-between part, that gear rotation is transferred to other gears which then rotate about the go-between part, the go-between part is the key.
Quick tests are looking very positive until the belt slips,, very annoying since now I am going to have to redesign things so that does not happen.
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« on: April 04, 2024, 03:36:10 pm »
This could be fun,,
I am printing out some test parts for the test-part that on paper shows a 1:1.314 in to out
I used pulleys on the first re-do and now I am using gears, making all those belts was a bother cause it is hard to get the tpu to fuse straight, and then to get the correct tension in it all.
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« on: March 28, 2024, 05:56:26 am »
Need to add that I have a means of adding in an internal potential, I am using rubber bands to add that potential.
I have been able to add the correct number of rubber bands so that when I hang the 90g mass on the 30mm side I can almost balance the arm, remember that the other side of the arm weighs approx. 20g so not much.
Within the range the internal potential holds, outside the range it does not.
I took the whole system off the mount and and placed the central shaft in a set of bearings and with the rubber bands in place I needed to add 45g to the 30mm side to bring that lever level, so the whole system is balanced around the axle for the lever.
I just did something silly, I mounted the bearing block in my vise and then put the lever axle into that bearing block. My spring scale weighs approx. 45g in total, the scale shows 30g when I hang it from the hook by itself. So for 180 degrees of rotation that spring scale is almost enough weight to hold the lever level, (the scale shows 30g while hanging by itself), pull on it so about about 35g is showing and this comes to a peak, so from no extra needed up to about 5g extra and then back to no extra needed. The other 180 degrees of rotation and I need to pick up on that spring scale a little bit, down to approx 25 and this is again from none needed up to a max and then back down to none needed.
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« on: March 28, 2024, 05:06:03 am »
On a 30mm arm I have hanging a 185g mass, on a 60mm arm I have hanging a 90g mass through a certain area of rotation the 90g mass picks up the 185g mass with ease, I need to add 30g to the 185g to balance things out. I changed my applied points so that they are 180 degrees across the same axle and on the same lever arm.
The complete lever arm weighs 30g and enough of the arm and parts are on the 90g side that when I weigh that side it is 20g. So this should then be close enough to being balanced. 30@210 60@110 roughly speaking is very close.
I have a range where this seems to hold and a range where it does not.
The whole system is very stiff to move but the weights on the arms move the whole system easy, so that is the internal moving parts are very stiff but the whole system is very free to rotate and move with no masses.
I am looking into a funny thing with this part of rotation relative to the direction of gravity and the relative positions of my system.
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« on: March 25, 2024, 12:36:27 pm »
this is designed to use bearings for the teeth so that the resistance created on the face is very very small.
I also did this using 2 slightly offset grooves and 2 bearings per so that one bearing was in contact with one face and the other bearing was in contact with the face on the other side, I did that so that I could make it a zero back-lash setup.
This one also works well both ways, that is turn the larger gear and it turns the smaller one or turn the smaller one and it turns the larger one, even at some steep angles
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« on: March 25, 2024, 06:16:40 am »
changed to mp4
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