Navigator: Regarding my new mechanism with the same parts, you asked
It doesn't have to be. Actually, I haven't changed anything except the distance between the two pivots on the sling arm. Now the sling arm changes directions with the rotation, and it changes its angle. But it doesn't flip around on one side.
This will work for something. The only time the seesawing has to momentarily stop is if you want thrust.
The dimmer controls what part and how much of the sine wave is connected to the load. It usually allows the voltage to rise to a certain point before turning on. In this way it regulates the watts.
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My thought was instead of the spring, loop the rope over a pulley and connect it to the opposite side. Then put the fulcrum in the middle of the frame so it can "seesaw". The pulley at the top would need to have the same diameter as the distance between the connecting points of the rope on the frame. The pulley would be connected to the shaft by another one-way bearing. On the other end of the shaft would be a smaller pulley that connected directly to the generator or the output shaft, not sure which would be better???
What is the dimmer switch controlling, the voltage, watts, combination???
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