generator tips » Electric Motor to Motor, can they self run?

There is a idea floating around the internet about self running two motors that are connected together. This is just a Demo of two 12v Dc PM electric motors connected together with a small flywheel between them, the idea on the net is one motor acts as a drive motor and the other as a generator when spun up the claims are the two motors can run each other like a closed loop can this work? This video is just a basic experiment and explanation, I don't go into detail and there are many factors involved. I have a small flywheel in the middle of the two motors to address kinetic energy, I know it's not balanced very well and it's crudely built. This is just a simple experiment good for a kids science fair project can show motor to generator AC to DC current, etc. This is only low voltage. Don't forget about the laws of Physics, conservation of energy -Energy can be neither created nor destroyed but can only change form. It's quite clear that it doesn't work! The more power the generator generates, the more power it takes to drive it. Energy is wasted as heat in the bearings and frictional forces in the commutator, as well as heat in the coils. I find it quite funny how people think this would work, but it's an interesting idea even if it is wrong! Great video. add a few car batteries to bank the stored power and add some giant home made capacitors on top of what you have and it would work but you couldn't tell where the power is coming from. you would have to add some diodes to direct the flow of current and you would get more loss other than friction and coil heat. to try and gain the loss of input to output is like cutting a number like 1 in 1/2 and finding the end to get zero. it won't work so you have to add a new factor to upset the balance to gain plus on the end output. other than fuel you could gear it but than you lose torque. you could loop water in a conductive pipe with gravity and have magnets pushed by water that would work but to get the magnets to loop would be the challeng

the only reason it failed is cus your breaking the circuit if you want it self running just cut input power from a external source while the wiring remains unbroken and will allow the chance of it self running! your second mistake is that you wouldnt run a load from it directly, always charge batteries with it and use an inverter to make 230 volts ac! simple then run long term tests with it for consumption etc! use multiple batteries along with solar panels and youl have a full scale project that could save money time, lives! your third mistake is you need to use good capacitors :) Thank you!! That was the finest demonstration proving everything i learned in engineering school is true! WOW ! The laws of thermodynamics dont change on Al Gores stovetop, they only change in the minds of tree hugging climate change liberals who beleive in free energe!!! Hint to all liberals....Reality bites!

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