autogyro's Transmission Concept

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autogyro
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noname wrote:
autogyro wrote:today they let the computer's do it for them.
Ideas are no longer any use, it has to be math.
one could say paintings in Sistine Chapel were painted by the brush and not by Michelangelo.

computer is just a tool, it's up to engineer to make the right use of it.

and the math is the language used by engineers to describe and communicate their ideas.

I agree there is lack of creativeness in our world but I would not blame computers. it's our irrational "economy" and monetary system which made invention (other than creative accounting) useless.

regards
You have explained my point perfectly, although you missed the point, which is why.
Michelangelo used 'anything' he could lay his hands on to achieve the best result, not just a paint brush.
If computers had been available they would probably have prevented him working.

RH1300S
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Hmmm - three posts to answer the easy questions ;)

mike
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xxChrisxx wrote:
mike wrote:i think autogyro mean that engineering is lacking creativity these days, and since math is a knowledge and creativity is more important than knowledge.

autogyro means that all he has in an interesting idea that he claim is absolutely awsome, all we have to do is try and work out how and if it works for him, so that he can believe himself and patent this system and perhaps build it in real life.
I'd have to disagree really. The fact that engineering is no longer a 'suck it and see' discipline like it was back in the day is progress, not a bad thing. Fact is in the modern era only 'ideas' that have true merit are developed does not mean a lack of creativity.

Simulation and virtual prototyping had seen the traditional prototype off for the most part. You can have ideas and skeches all you want, back in the day you'd have to make it to see if it works. Now rigoruos feasibility studies and simulations are run BEFORE seeing if its worth making.

It's been common knowledge that professional engineers have ALWAYS needed incredibly high mathematics skills. The only people I have experienced who call themselves 'engineers', that actively distrust people who apply a scientific approach to development as opposed to a practical approach, are all old time served machinists who for some reason don't want call themselves a machinist.

They have the attitude that becuase 'them academics with their bloody compOOOters' can't operate a machine and make it themselves they don't know squat. When infact the two jobs are complimentary to each other.

At the end of the day, for autogyro's 'idea' (if it indeed exists, of which there is no proof what so ever) to be made by ANYONE, it'll go through the hands of the man with the calculator first.

All I am asking for is, don't make --- up. Unless you have figures to justify the fantasitc claims that the device has better efficiency, it's all just hot air from an old blowhard. If you claim somthing is awsome to a room full of engineers, they ARE going to ask you why, and the ARE going to ask you to prove it. If you continually dodge their questions and deflect they ARE going to call bullshit on you.

Autogyro has demonstrated NOTHING with regards to his 'idea', no proof, no figures, not even a coherent description. If you don't want to duscuss it, why bring it up all the time?

/thread right there as that was a post contraing epic truths.

big quote but im just try to make autogyro sound reasonable......
it is by no means my opinion but it seems autogyro is a bit late on his design....
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4719&hilit=NuVinci&start=15

its only under 5 kgs with 97% efficiency beat that....
its 1 shaft on 1 bearing fits into a 4in cube with no gears

bazanaius
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Building computers is very far removed from using a computer to design something else.

I can't see why CFD couldn't be used to investigate the lotus 88, or anything else you wish to analyse. Most of these programs are custom made for whatever application you wish to use them in, and often the methods used are quite creative... If anything, it's particularly impressive as direct simulation is not possible and so people use quite abstract ideas to utilise computers to their advantage, before gathering the data and interpreting it to see if it does what they want. This is very much the computer working for them, not the other way around. The fact that you feel limited by computers simply suggests you don't know how to use them in the way that you want - this isn't necessarily a problem tbh, as everyone works in their own ways. I'd personally maximise the number of tools at my disposal, rather than limiting myself to either a fag packet or a pc - why not use both?

We are yet to see whether CFD can be used alone to design aerodynamics, but I would point out that the CFD is still being calibrated with windtunnels - it is just that the windtunnel is not being used for development work directly.

Why would computers have prevented him working? He was obviously a dedicated individual, and exceptionally talented to boot - any reason why if he wanted to use a paintbrush he wouldn't? Once again, you seem to think that the computer controls people - in actual fact it is up to the individual to use the computer. I'd suggest they would be just as unimaginative without it. Valuable people are those who take new technology, or ideas, and use it to their advantage in a considered way to enable them to work more efficiently, or to try new things without the hazards of 'just knocking up a nuclear reactor and hoping it works, coz it's the only way'. I can list many examples of computers saving time, money and lives:

- investigation of explosions/fires in confined spaces such as oil rigs, car parks or office buildings. Expensive to blow up lots of structures, hard to measure results without large amount of sensors. COmputer simulation is a great aird in this case.

autogyro
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mike wrote:
xxChrisxx wrote:
mike wrote:i think autogyro mean that engineering is lacking creativity these days, and since math is a knowledge and creativity is more important than knowledge.

autogyro means that all he has in an interesting idea that he claim is absolutely awsome, all we have to do is try and work out how and if it works for him, so that he can believe himself and patent this system and perhaps build it in real life.
I'd have to disagree really. The fact that engineering is no longer a 'suck it and see' discipline like it was back in the day is progress, not a bad thing. Fact is in the modern era only 'ideas' that have true merit are developed does not mean a lack of creativity.

Simulation and virtual prototyping had seen the traditional prototype off for the most part. You can have ideas and skeches all you want, back in the day you'd have to make it to see if it works. Now rigoruos feasibility studies and simulations are run BEFORE seeing if its worth making.

It's been common knowledge that professional engineers have ALWAYS needed incredibly high mathematics skills. The only people I have experienced who call themselves 'engineers', that actively distrust people who apply a scientific approach to development as opposed to a practical approach, are all old time served machinists who for some reason don't want call themselves a machinist.

They have the attitude that becuase 'them academics with their bloody compOOOters' can't operate a machine and make it themselves they don't know squat. When infact the two jobs are complimentary to each other.

At the end of the day, for autogyro's 'idea' (if it indeed exists, of which there is no proof what so ever) to be made by ANYONE, it'll go through the hands of the man with the calculator first.

All I am asking for is, don't make --- up. Unless you have figures to justify the fantasitc claims that the device has better efficiency, it's all just hot air from an old blowhard. If you claim somthing is awsome to a room full of engineers, they ARE going to ask you why, and the ARE going to ask you to prove it. If you continually dodge their questions and deflect they ARE going to call bullshit on you.

Autogyro has demonstrated NOTHING with regards to his 'idea', no proof, no figures, not even a coherent description. If you don't want to duscuss it, why bring it up all the time?

/thread right there as that was a post contraing epic truths.

big quote but im just try to make autogyro sound reasonable......
it is by no means my opinion but it seems autogyro is a bit late on his design....
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4719&hilit=NuVinci&start=15

its only under 5 kgs with 97% efficiency beat that....
its 1 shaft on 1 bearing fits into a 4in cube with no gears
Not the DeVinci toroidal transmission again mike!
It is fine in instruments and industrial application, which is why Williams are in the East selling an idea from it, along with their flywheel storage devices.
For light high performance use the toroid uses to much energy to maintain pressure on the specially formulated traction fluid.
Add those losses to your 97% and you might get near the truth.
So no it is not anything like my system.
Sorry

autogyro
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Oh yes and my ESERU has been looked at by a group of top level engineers and they have seen no reason why it should not be advanced.
The problem is available finance in the UK for, I completely agree, a 'risky' and expensive project.

bazanaius
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Have you patented the system? If this idea does what you say it does, then it could be worth a lot of money. Plus, you can patent an idea so you wouldn't have to build your prototypes.

It would also mean you could show us how it works.

autogyro
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bazanaius wrote:Have you patented the system? If this idea does what you say it does, then it could be worth a lot of money. Plus, you can patent an idea so you wouldn't have to build your prototypes.

It would also mean you could show us how it works.
If I still owned a company and I was not semi retired, I would have done much more.
I no longer travel miles and miles promoting new ideas for a British industry now run by coke using bankers in red braces.
Much prefer a bit of gardening.

bazanaius
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So no? If it does what you say it does, then those high level engineers might have already got it working - ironically it is probably in the form of a computer model that cost a fraction of your predictions for prototypes..

010010011010
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Have you patented the system?
We asked this earlier and nope he hasnt, nor has he a prototype, or a computer simulation, or any figures at all it seems other than its a 5cm cube and uses only one bearing.

All hes done is asked engineers privately if theres any reason why it wouldnt work.

So autogyro, what are you doing to get this made? you say it'll take alot of money, are you looking for any? or are you just gardening these days

xxChrisxx
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010010011010 wrote:
Have you patented the system?
We asked this earlier and nope he hasnt, nor has he a prototype, or a computer simulation, or any figures at all it seems other than its a 5cm cube and uses only one bearing.

All hes done is asked engineers privately if theres any reason why it wouldnt work.

So autogyro, what are you doing to get this made? you say it'll take alot of money, are you looking for any? or are you just gardening these days
I may as well point out that its 110mm/4inch cube, otherwise he'll just latch on to this point and ignore the rest (ie relevent part) of your post.

autogyro
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Growing my own veg, which is something I would suggest to anyone working in F1, particularly the Toyota workers and probably those at Renault.
The times they are a changing.

MinacciolMotors
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EDIT:

I'm removing all of this for my personal sake. Thanks for the input guys.
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bazanaius
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bazanaius wrote:So no? If it does what you say it does, then those high level engineers might have already got it working - ironically it is probably in the form of a computer model that cost a fraction of your predictions for prototypes..

No reply to this...

MinacciolMotors
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EDIT

I took down my picture. I am gonna keep drawn --- close to the vest now. At first it was just reverse engineering. Now its pretty well my own idea.
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