Lego Technic Weight Driven Generator

[batlin]

Very creative stuff there. The power isn't that bad really - far more than the led needs at least!

[headshot965]

you can use a electric motor, too

it´s much easier

[stop4stuff]

yes you can... the principle is the same, but the efficiency not

[561inurface]

this vid is so interesting but i cant help but fall asleep due to the monotone narreration...

-.- ZZzzZZzzZZzz

[LordOfTheGnus]

The next step, of course, is a weight-driven car.

[evilmurderproduction]

very well done

[tractorboy8420]

who are you ... Professer Snape?? lol cool lego! i love it!

[gofojibwas]

haha yeah i half expected him to talk about bezoars

[tractorboy8420]

lol!

[SuperLuigi707]

Hahaha it really does sound like him!

[Dirtboy101]

Do you think that I could substitute the falling action with a lego vacuum powered engine?

[jessekarate08]

i always thought of something like thid but wasnt sure how to do it the right way

[dr350rider27]

lego generators are the way of the future

[Bazzabazeman]

talk a bit less monotonexD

nice construction ;-)

[stop4stuff]

Thanks...

I am who i am, and that includes my voice... boring voice... if you ever meet me you will find I am alot different to the way I sound.

[wondersax]

this is awesome! what did you use to convert the rotation into electricity?

[stop4stuff]

magnets and copper wire... there's a writeup on my website linked to in the 'more info' section (upper right of this page)

[dan819999]

awsome

[D8W2P4]

35% is about the upper limit of what a gasoline-powered engine is (However a Diesel-powered engine is around 50% and an Electric motor is around 90% by the way) so you aready beat what a gasoline-engine can make and all your useing is Lego's and wieghts.

[AlexthePanda]

Ahhh finally a way for me to use my lego's to convert my heavy set cousin into fuel! (joking aside, very nice)

[antgrav]

Wow dude you found the alternative way of making enrgy... wow you need to win a noble prize!! LOL

[stop4stuff]

tis nothing new

clocks have worked this way for centuries

in recent years, magnets have gotten stronger (for the alternator, which is old technology too)

i just put the 2 together using LEGO...

if you think about it, hydro power stations work by more or less the same principle

noble prize for this... i don't think so... maybe sometime... probably never ;)

[thedryliner]

dont have a clue what your on bout but your defo a lot smarter man than i am good work mate , cheerz

[stop4stuff]

thanks for the good words thedryliner, you should see me on a good day... jeans & t-shirt is smart ;)

[artillerywinsgain]

It's sort of like a grandfather clock.

I tend to not pay attention to the replies on any of my comments nor my e-mails.

[praling]

argh its snape!

[edmac313]

Have you discussed your idea yet with any mechanical and electrical engineers to determine how much electricty could be produced from very large weights? That would be my next step.

Ed

[stop4stuff]

there's some discussion & calcs on the Fieldlines forum, linked to in the 'About this video' info (upper right)

consider the definition of 1 Horse Power... 33,000 lb.ft./minute... if you could capture 100% energy, 4 tons dropped 1 foot in 1 hour is equivalent to about 90Whr, maybe enough to power a 20" TV... factor in the system efficiency & you could be looking at just 30Whr.

if you're thinking of going ahead with something like this, send me a message for some pointers.

[stop4stuff]

i got my pounds & kilos mixed up...

4 tons dropped in 1 hour is about 180Whr (100% efficiency)... so a realistic minimum of 60Whr would be achievable

[edmac313]

stop4stuff,

I had the same idea for a weight driven generator and found you on the net. Today's hand winches can lift as much as 8000 pounds (4 tons). I believe that with that much weight, very low friction gearing, and a high efficiency generator that is constructed much like a gyroscope, it may be possible to generate enough electricity to power a home for several days or weeks with no fuel, depending on the weight's drop length.

Ed

[manuvielum]

good job :)

[HAJS5]

If someone made that about 100 times bigger you could charge a car with it!

[TheMisterP]

all this for a LED?

[stop4stuff]

yep...

with better energy conversion efficiency than most car engines.

:)

[hhhhooolla]

sos un asco

[lassin1234]

Sorry but you sound like the Professor Snake at the Harry Potter :D

[stop4stuff]

:)

you can hear the sound (me talking)?

:):):)

[ganaloth1]

i cant even hear what your saying this vid sucks! paste this onto every lego vid dat you cant hear and sucks!

[stop4stuff]

I'm sorry that you don't have the ability to adjust your volume control... or is it that you are deaf?

Should I put subtitles in my vids for people like you?

[mavamaarten]

nope... my volume is at 100% and i just hear :

mmm mm m mss mmssmdff

[stop4stuff]

sounds ok on my PC with the volume up...

oh well, comes of trying to overlay a script on the vid i suppose... tho it's ok on my PC

[GazerGraff]

lolz 365 vids!

[MrD721]

awsome! this is what lego is about: creativety!

[100PercentJoseph]

ok, lemme get this straight, 1 cool video, 2 365 videos a year!??!?!! thats at least a video a day!

[MrD721]

lol dude there's 365 days in a year

[catboy357]

you might want to clean your lens or find a video enhancer

[stop4stuff]

lol... I use wifey's cheapo digital camera :(

You might want to remember that there's a few levels of processing to get some vids onto YouTube & the quality does degrade.

[spectrumcrumpets]

very nice, hey stop4stuff are you an engineer?

[stop4stuff]

thanks, no i'm not an engineer... just imaginative & 35 years+ playing with Lego :)

[k30000]

you have been busy. 364 videos in 1 year

[stop4stuff]

lol... i joined in sept '06.. so more like 15 months... tho if you look theres 232 vids that are the platinum medal achievements for all the single player games on PGR2 for the Xbox... most of which were added within a month or so.

:)

[k30000]

ok :)

[conor1148]

thats a video every day 0.0

[ziggyame]

This is very impressive i did make once a lego generator out of copper wire and gearing it all but it was hand power like a hand powered torch. I tested it and i got around 5-6 volts out of it. and powered a LED but was never constantly on.

[condhor]

dude thats pretty awesome, nice work

[homostraculento]

but stil a very good construction due to what it does, most of all shots or launchs something, thats original.

[homostraculento]

stop whispering man, talk like a man, i cant hear shit!

[stop4stuff]

huh... turn up ur volume!

[Redshift21]

saw something close to this on an old episode of "Tomorrows World", they used a bucket filled with rocks pulled up a tree to power a radio in an African village.

[sfmonkeyc]

I've been wanting to build a weight-driven generator and was looking for inspiration. I figured if weight can drive a grandfather's clock for a week, why not a generator with the proper gearing and weight.

YOU did it! With LEGO! Amazing!

[andymc17]

the dude sounds like alan rickman

[MistarX]

Outstanding.

[TTRzermatt]

cool nice1 stop4stuff