I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll, No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go
its very easy to utilise the energy of water by making the axis horizontal because in this case a wheel with horizontal axis can catch all of the falling water and hence the speed of rotation is faster
@rohitkanaujiamoni the idea, i think , is to create an attractor , thus the axis has to be little bit off as it is this imbalance that is driving the wheel back and forth, if the axis were to be set in a perfectly horizontal way ...then the only thing that is going to happen is you will have one cup full of water...think about it.
@ethiopiawenege You're thinking horizontal wheel, vertical axis. horizontal axis would be like a conventional water wheel.
The beauty of using Cups with a constant drain rate is that you can't spin this too fast, because the imbalance between the "full" cups to the partly drained cups will decrease with rotation, thus reducing the power added to the wheel. Not important for the speed and size shown, but might be in larger versions using the same principle.
Apparently not on a water meter then x)
Farmerboy6499 1 week ago
I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round, I really love to watch them roll, No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go
Junior48210 2 weeks ago 2
its very easy to utilise the energy of water by making the axis horizontal because in this case a wheel with horizontal axis can catch all of the falling water and hence the speed of rotation is faster
rohitkanaujiamoni 4 weeks ago
@rohitkanaujiamoni the idea, i think , is to create an attractor , thus the axis has to be little bit off as it is this imbalance that is driving the wheel back and forth, if the axis were to be set in a perfectly horizontal way ...then the only thing that is going to happen is you will have one cup full of water...think about it.
ethiopiawenege 1 week ago
@ethiopiawenege You're thinking horizontal wheel, vertical axis. horizontal axis would be like a conventional water wheel.
The beauty of using Cups with a constant drain rate is that you can't spin this too fast, because the imbalance between the "full" cups to the partly drained cups will decrease with rotation, thus reducing the power added to the wheel. Not important for the speed and size shown, but might be in larger versions using the same principle.
deelkar 6 days ago
It would be interesting (if it weren't so wet) to rig some kind of sensor up to the wheel to record its motions, then graph them on a computer.
zh84 1 month ago
That's kinda depressing to watch
orangechicken28 1 month ago
a small rock in the cups will point the opposite cup at the water.
bryncomeaux 1 month ago
It's absolutely useless and therefore I like it.
MucusFelidae 3 months ago
Tip it on it's side and move the cups around to catch the water.
11ublack 5 months ago
how do make this thing with a horizontal axis?
77755roxx 1 year ago