Ignatz Flying Pendulum
Uploader Comments (rpartos)
All Comments (8)
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It is pretty amazing that it only requires one moving shaft. Everything else that moves is string. I wonder if you had 4 rods for the pendulum to wrap around if you could slow the motion down even more?
I was thinking that this might be a good mechanism to drive a tracking mechanism for parabolic solar cookers which need to track the sun to work well.
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Any details on construction? More info.....
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good
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this is how grandfather clocks work and all automatic clocks in a similar design just no weight but a spring its the core of all clocks.
dam that shit is nice
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Well, unless you keep winding it. It is an escapement mechanism after all.
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Please, see my video Chinese(?) Clock. Do you know something more about it's origin?
BenVanDeWaal
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ah, i see, so it stops eventually, still a great invention though.. :)
Does this thing use any form of electic, or does it power itself?
alexioco 4 years ago
it uses a fishing weight suspended on a thread wound around the little drum at the bottom.
rpartos 4 years ago