Sunday, April 29, 2007

Weight system


Weight Mechanism, originally uploaded by powersdale.

This is equivalent to the weights which provide the energy for grandfather clocks. This weight is raised by a hand crank to near the top of the light house. The force of the weight causes the mechanism to turm rotates the lens of the lighthouse. Over a period of hours, the potential energy of the weight is used to turn the lens.

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