Are they making more SamuelA’s now?
To simulate the treadmill, where the treadmill speed > wheel speed, the sun gear (the treadmill in this analogy) will spin using whatever, it doesn’t really matter, but if it helps imagine an electric motor spinning it. This will cause the planet gear to somewhat rotate but mostly revolve around the sun gear. Putting a little force on the axle attached to the planet gear will allow you to move the planet gear around the sun gear regardless of the rotation speed of the sun/planet gears. Placing these gears on a bar that can freely rotate around its center will split any force placed on the planet gear’s axle causing the speed increase to appear on the sun and planet gears nearly simultaneously.
I’m trying to find a free physics simulator where I can illustrate this, mainly to make sure I’m not missing something due to a huge blind spot.
This is in response to the airplane on a treadmill thread in Cecil’s forum. The guy seems legitimate and I have no idea WTF he’s trying to do to that poor airplane, but shit, it’s worth watching/reading. Well, not so much reading.