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I watched the video of the Tesla Motor in operation, and the rotation was going in the wrong direction. The video shows the weights moving downwards on the outside of the frame, and upwards on the inside.
For this machine to produce lift, the weights have to move upwards on the outside, as the frame both rotates and revolves around an external point, in the same direction. The direction of these two rotations isn't critical, as long as they're the same.
Inertial Lift can be produced with the weights moving downwards, but it's more complicated. There would have to be a phase shift in the positions of the weights when they start coming down around the outside of the extrinsic rotation. This would require a weight's spoke to be above the horizontal - by 30 degrees - when it's in the straight back position, just before it starts to come around on the outside.
I've built Lifters which operate on both of these principles, but the operation is completely different when a weight is moving down as when it's moving up.
For this machine to produce lift, the weights have to move upwards on the outside, as the frame both rotates and revolves around an external point, in the same direction. The direction of these two rotations isn't critical, as long as they're the same.
Inertial Lift can be produced with the weights moving downwards, but it's more complicated. There would have to be a phase shift in the positions of the weights when they start coming down around the outside of the extrinsic rotation. This would require a weight's spoke to be above the horizontal - by 30 degrees - when it's in the straight back position, just before it starts to come around on the outside.
I've built Lifters which operate on both of these principles, but the operation is completely different when a weight is moving down as when it's moving up.
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