1871 The Serpent Flywheel Battery
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That must be the longest period of silence in this channel’s history
Sans maniacal joyous laughter!
I dunno I remember 1 video where he walked off, left the camera running and it cut half way through another scene😂😂😂,thought he reupload it with that bit cut out.
Lol
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I appreciate the fact that. You give each episode a number …. THANK YOU. !
Absolute Amazing! Watching this spin was actually really inspiring, I have lots of work to do... Thank you for your Time, your Knowledge and your Generosity!
This video reminded me of the 'living energy machine", one of the first videos I ever saw on you-tube. It's still up with only 84 subscribers and 12 comments. There was a design I saw in a book in the 80s where ropes were attached to the tops of several tall trees. They were routed through pulleys to a flywheel. When the trees would move in the wind the ropes would pull and turn the ratcheted flywheel. If those two designs were combined with your serpentine rotor that would be quite a thing.🌬🌴🌪⚡
🤔Can you recall the title or author of the book?…
@@Sedgewise47 I'm sorry, I don't remember. It was published in the 70's, tall and thin. I got it from a library, don't have a copy. Maybe someone else can help. I remember the working part was in the center of the trees it was hooked up to. When any of the six or seven trees swayed away from it the pulling of the ropes did work. Intermittent motion from several sources converted to rotary motion. It might have been designed to pump water. It was so pre-computer, my searches on the subject haven't worked. Some other old guy might know?... The ropes didn't move very far, only a few feet, but they had considerable force.
Way more interesting than watching paint dry. Was not bored in the least while that was generating. Could have happily watched until it stopped. Love it.
Loving this serpent coil Rob. I’d often thought an old singer style rocking foot actuater would work great to charge up a battery. Easy motion lots of energy throughput
That was the thought I had last week (as I have a treadle machine) and figured someone must have already done this, and that's how I ended up subscribed to this channel.
I'm interested to see how the Serpentine Generator works with the Feather Flat Wind Turbine.
You said boring I say that is the most fascinating generator video I have ever seen.
2nd Great vid. Makes me want to convert my dead pull-start lawn mower into a genny for emergency purposes. Thx from Ontario, Canada
Loving what you're doing. Thanks to both of you - not only for the content, but for open sourcing 🙂
Hi did you notice when you added the extra bearing the reduction of vertical movement in the rotor & another great improvement 👍
This is brilliant. Well done again Rob.
Here's a thought: A fitness gym where all the treadmills and such are connected to flywheel generators, so people pay to stay healthy while creating free energy!
I love the way we have so much in common in our thinking as always great video love the Design
Please loop the staring portion and make it half an hour long. There is something really satisfying about you generally appreciating the achievement.
Loving it, I could just watch the flywheel going around and be happy with the possibility of using concrete as the flywheel formed as close as possible to shaft. Could use a lawnmower pull start unit.
Rob - an idea for you:
Tie a long pull cord to a tall tree. Harvest wind energy using one-way bearing + generator via tree swaying.
Use some form of counterweight or spring to keep cord taught around hub.
- a "free" large area structure for wind collection, capable of quite a bit of force. Poplar trees?
I joined again. Thank you very much!
So awesome how you can put the thoughts I have into actual usable technology, Robert. Love what you do. Keep it up.
Robert you are BIG thanks
Love your work, a huge thanks.
Fantastic job. You could literally use this to light a room and watch paint dry. 🤣
Just a small hit-and-miss engine to that and you got a winner
Stirling engine?
Worth the watch, every time.
Add a relay to cut the AC to the motor and you'd have a rotary uninterruptible power supply. The flywheel will keep the the motor/generator spinning once the AC is removed, providing emergency power until the flywheel spins down.
3:26 almost gave me a brown surprise in my pants. After such a long silence, *SUDDEN LAUGHTER!!*
I enjoyed the video Sir. Please make some more for us all to enjoy and learn from. Job well done matte.......
Nice...Yes, it worked very well. Thanks for sharing. DVD:)
I only started watching your videos recently. In the first one I watched you said that one of your commenters called you a giggling idiot. I've watched very closely, and you seem to be more of a happy Mr. Wizard to me. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the video. I was one of the people asking for the flywheel.. When you started showing off the rotor with feather design I immediately wondered if this pull type of flywheel generator could be pushed by the feather rotor (or multiple rotors stacked). Is there a way to push the flywheel when force is enacted on the feathers and release when there is no wind or the flywheel is spinning faster than the feather rotor. Seems like that would be a great way to get many times more work out of wind's energy.. The compactness/density of these latest projects is amazing. A decent little power source in the form factor of a large coffee can. Great work sir.
And by bearings, did you mean super conductors, because those things spun fantastically!? I realize that the weight of the flywheel plays an important part, but still. Wow. Another fantastic video; thank you!
Excellent job, well done you!😊
Awesome 👏
Very Groovy, I love it!
great skills rob
Poor/Developing countries could really benefit from this! 😊
Excellent!
Thanks for sharing
a hit and miss motor wold work so well on this
This was oddly soothing 😁👍
Had a good power nap, this is awesome
Robert, could you reduce the friction using magnetic bearings? Thrust bearings are good but if you can levitate the rotor and even center it using magnets it might perform better. Just a thought.
Can't levitate AND have a flywheel this heavy at sametime. If you use too strong of magnets it is going to mess with the fields you are trying to use
@@DavyOneness That's exactly what i thought. Any metal flywheel within the proximity to magnets strong enough to lift it, would create eddy currents.
@@DavyOneness yes you can. The levitation fields are not 'cut' by the windings nor do they create eddy currents. Try it with a couple of old microwave or speaker magnets, the only issue is keeping them centralised. Anyway the fields can easily be shielded.
Next try is to put this machine together with your flat wind turbine. I think that two things will happen, one is the flywheel will generate a more constant speed for a longer period, two the flywheel will keep the the mechanism from running away in higher velocity winds. I also thought if you include your magnetically enhanced system, your machine would be self powered for a longer period of time.
For me, living in one of the five windiest spots in the world, this might give me some power day or night. You have gotten my creative thought juices going. I enjoy you videos immensely, some day I would like to start working on some of your ideas and mind. Thanks again.
I had another thought, to set this up to charge a bank of battery chargers for running the battery powered tools as as a collection unit(s). I have a lot of chargers. Maybe include the vibration mechanisms as well into the mix. Have a fabulous day.
Yeah I'm really leaning for the capacitor side of this where it charges up and you got back up that sounds pretty good
Thats Awesome!!
Thank you , 👍🐝🌞
"one month later"
Just a comment about flywheel generators, not far from me there was a larger older coal-fired generation station with five big steam turbine generator sets. A while ago three of the turbines were converted to natural gas and two were partially decommissioned. The two generators were retained as flywheel storage to manage the supply vs demand instead of trying to follow the demand by regulating the steam supply closely. When the demand declines the excess power is diverted to the two freewheeling generators to increase rpm. Then if the demand suddenly returns, the power stored in the spinning generators is used for immediate supply.
Robert watching flywheel spinning ASMR. :)
my idea is to place a upright wind turbine in a half tube with fin fixed on top that turns aswell, so prevents wind hitting one side...
Fascinating!!! Love it!!! Great job as always!!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Good job 👏 👍
I've just questioned all my life choices ! 😂 I can't believe how long it went for
That is the proper way to wind coils for energy production
Maybe hook the cord up to a door and every time you open the door you will have free lighting
so many ideas out there, but i cant find for Money a decient 400watt wind rainy day back up for my RV. Grunzzz . Stay Mellow Ppl´s
Great video :)
I wonder if the serpent coil would be more powerful (or more efficient too), if the “fingers” were longer, so as to catch as many magnetic lines, as they cross the face of the magnet.
you can put the flywheel on the center and double the gears and generator each side, and make it a gravity battery with some other weight, nice
A larger diameter flywheel work better as well.
Flywheel energy storage appears best situated for freqency regulation, because of how fast it can respond to changes in demand. Some data centers use it as part of their uninterrupted power supply as they can't afford any downtime and chemical batteries have a relatively short life compared to flywheel.
Brilliant, could use a battery that has been charged by solar to spin up the flywheel as it slows down using a governor type mechanism so it would be pulsed not using a great deal of energy from the run battery.
I was watching one of your videos on electrolysis. And wonder how these generators would perform at making hydrogen
I wonder if you can get it spinning fast enough with a fairly constant breeze where the fly wheel could help normalize the power being generated between gusts. I suppose anything is possible with the right conditions.
Do you remember those spinning tops that had a pushrod on top? I believe it was attached to a twisted flat bar that comverted your downward push to rotation to pwer the main body.
Stick one of those on thre andyou won't have to carry a string around with it.
¡Beautiful experience!
would the torque experienced in a lasersaber-type atmo motor be able to generate enough to power this up and keep it running?
Would it be possible to use the coil as a motor to get the generator/flywheel up to speed using stored energy, and then use wind or hydro to add to the stored energy in the flywheel for charging, similar to kite generators pulling the kite back down ready to start the charge cycle, or would the energy required to get up to a sensible charge speed be more over time than the wind could add therefore making the losses grater than the gains.
Flywheel gen plus grandfather clock!
Oooo shiny things! 😀
I wouldve liked To see a comparison of one weight on the fly wheel to 3 how much longer does it spin and what length of time very neat design though love your videos
Could you use same pole neo magnets as bearings to reduce friction and subsequent loss of power
How do you find your way around the 'lou at night with the light bar being in the workshop.
Imagine how long it would spin with a magnetic setup so the part with the weight was floating with most of the friction removed.
Interesting indeed! =)
Robert, have you considered compressed air energy storage by means of a windmill rotating an air pump and compressing air into a large tank and releasing the air into a Gast air motor for powering fans and tools?
Me gusta mirar como el señor se emociona, es un buen trabajo me gustan mucho lo experimentos 👍🇭🇳
Could you use a pair of ring magnets to reduce the friction between the stationary and spinning parts?
Is there a video about making the coil?
So, if you are charging a supercapacitor, could you use the atmo generator or the wimshurst to charge the supercapacitor?
Hi Robert, just subscribed because I think your channel is gold. There are several alt-energy concepts I've seen around the web I want to try so am brushing up on my electronics knowledge in order to do them. About this one, I'm wondering whether you've measured the amount of electrical energy a pull like you've done amounts to and if it is less than the total energy output by the wheel, perhaps a portion of that energy could be used to give the wheel a push at regular intervals? Perhaps in an electromagnet or something similar?
What about using water from a rainwater down pipe collector to power it. You would need a bucket on a pivot that overbalances when its full dumping several kilos onto a paddle connected to the generator. The generator would spin until the bucket refilled and it wold get another push , just like a steam engine. Power the rain 😊 very handy in Wales
A hybrid system using this and compressed air/air compressor?
cool i love it ...what if you replace the bearings by suspend it with magnets to remove friction on bearings? do you think it would interfere with anything?
Have you come across Atmospheric Clocks?
They "self wind" using a barograph, there must be a way to scale them to run something like this.
Admittedly barographs can be tricky
Arthur took the 3 least furry things in the fridge and placed them on a plate and watched them intently for 2 minutes, since they made no attempt to escape he called them breakfast and ate them. (THHGTTG)
What he needs is a drink that 'tastes almost exactly unlike tea'... unfortunately Marvin got bored waiting on the flywheel stopping.
Hmmmmm.... Setup a wind turbine mechanically coupled to this sort of flywheel device through a one-way bearing (sprag clutch)... Rectify the electrical output and charge a bank of super-capacitors and/or storage batteries... size the whole system to suit your load requirement and you're in business!
It reminds me of the dendera lights
Could you try this design but horizontal on a bike to test the volts/amps you get? More weight, more weight circumference, maybe 2 or more motors in parallel
Use planetary gears and electric motor for infinite gears. Capacitor bank to store power and charge a battery
A system like this would work well for an E bike in my opinion but I'd be more than happy if you just were able to test the concept for a bike generator. It'd be hard to start the wheel spinning but once you've got it going you can seamlessly switch through gears which could potentially allow you a rudimentary control of the volt/Amp output when combined with combined with pedal speed
What about making a variable moment of inertia flywheel?
It would be interesting to know just how long it spun
FANTASTIC! 👍😎
I am right that direction of pull doesn't matter? Therefore if there was a hole in the shaft and the cord secured you could pull it and then it would re-wrap itself to be ready to pull again/ correct?
Really surprised how long that went. Isn't this a odd type of bearing? Some antifriction something or another. I'm kind of mind blown.
Nice. Better balancing less load (maybe only 1 light) and some sort of electronic matching circuit for high voltage to current converter and 1/2 hour is possible. Seems like you having real fun with 3d printing. I'm in the middle of making a multi use machine with spindles instead of belts for moving the heads. I will be able to change the head to a 3d printer, a high speed ßpindle for cnc machining or engraving / pcb milling and also a laser head for cutting wood and plastic. I'm getting fired up watching you and your 3d adventures.
Could maybe power a radio too . Remember that special torch/radio for the poor of SA ? . Torch is a flashlight.
Could use that with a gravity weight and extra cogs run for ages
One solution to bind the all! 😂
Hook this up to a hit-and-miss engine!
Hand crank flywheel generator. I like it
Could of turned your other lights off to show off the brightness
So did you get more energy out than your arm put in? I notice that you pulled the cord quite gently.
How might you attach the rope to a tree or sail, attach it to the flywheel via some system that let the rope pull and retract with the movement of the tree? Seems to me that you could generate some serious wind power that way.
I am curious about your pull cord generator, I can't seem to find it on your tinkercad profile?