"The Power In These Flywheels Scares The Pants Off Me" | Savage Builds

Should’ve wound it up to max rpm and cut it loose.

So, you mean to tell me that there was no better way to mount this other than two saw horses and ratchet tie down?

Mounting this thing with those tiny straps is insane. Especially for some engineers. The whole thing should be anchored to the ground and the axle should be welded to the rack.

THERE ARE PEOPLE BORN TO BE ENGINEERS. IF NASA DOES NOT HAVE THE TOP ENGINEERS, YOU WON'T FIND A BETTER ENGINEER ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET. YOU CAN NOT HAVE STUFF BREAKING DOWN ON MARS.

Dude, they will run down the block

Still waiting

What! They Didn't let it go????

Those things aren't flat. You can see the edges wobbling. They should be forged and machined. Not laser cut from some steel sheet ....

Hah! This might be the first vehicle ever to move AFTER you hit the brakes.

What’s the friggen point of this

Why breaks instead of a clutch? Just curious.

It's funny how big of a fail this was.

❤

Reminds me of the Tesla Turbine, which works using flat, circular plates just millimetres apart. It's so efficient we haven't yet invented materials strong enough to make a full sized one.

I know this was a few years back but did they think to balance the flywheels as well?

Spinning a fidget spinner with an air nozzle creates an air siren :)

Yeah. It gets wierd at high speed .

If it was mounted to the floor it might reduce some of the side wiggle

With so many well balanced large flywheels available in old agriculture equipment, it seems beyond odd to make something as clunky as these.

Has Adam never fired up a Johnny Popper? Tiny motor huge flywheel to get power for work.

"My day job: I work for a place called Jet Propulsion Labratories..."

Ya know, in case you haven't heard of it...

😂

Get some suspenders

You need to apply a braking system

IF ONLY ADAM HAD EVEN A TOUCH OF MANNERS!!!

Imagine a flyweel 3 mtrs diameter, 1.5 tones spinning with 535 rpms. Fitted on an engine for a ocean going ship. Huge amount of energy stored in it. And we are passing next to it maybe 50 60 times a day, only 1 mtr away.😂😂😂

I miss Adam and Jamie from Discovery Channel.

this is AWESOME!!!

I love how excited Adam always is doing builds. His enthusiasm is contagious

I love how they just banded it down on sawhorses...

And why wasn't this rig bolted to the floor? No torque sensors, no load sensors. This is so Adam. Where's Jamie when you need him.

At work, we have three massive flywheels used as batteries, because we need all the energy accumulated in them in a moment, and the electric grid cannot provide that amount.
They are underground, in a maze-like building, so that if they go flying, they have to transverse tens of walls.

Wow.. nasa photographers were already ready to take the video of the rover descent. Great work. This is the real timed photography.

Is part 2 somewhere??

The panjandrum was a brilliant idea but that is also why the British cancelled the project. They built a few version and still couldn't control it.

I bet you could build a ufo with spinning discs, magnets and electricity and a small nuclear reactor.

Mind boggling

Where is Part two please??

Did anyone consider the gyroscopic precession on those wheels from the earth rotating? How much force would be on those wheels at 1000 rpm?

dynamic balancing should have been done on those wheels before spinning, like a car wheel

The motor guy reminds me of a garden gnome

Keep on conversing. That's the only way to find out the truth and the cure for everything

F1 used to use flywheels in their KERS, they are serious business

A heavy mass rotating at high speed is extremely powerful/dangerous.

Put some wheels on it and take it to Battlebots

Yeah,it's called mass duh.

sad we dont get to see real footage, ever, of any of these rovers landing on Mars.

Why is that?

Voyager sends back pictures from outer space.

We have much better technology than we had back then.

So why is it that we can not have a glimpse of a real rover landing on Mars?
Wouldnt it be great to see a Rover landing next to another Rover that is already there?
Without any gimmics. No sudden edits, cuts, or anything like that?
Just from way up in orbit all the way down to the surface of Mars without any edit?
Wouldn't that be great?

We can do it here on earth, in both directions. Up and down.
So why not there and have the footage be send to where ever?
Voyager is still able to send back footage, isn';t it?

When will we see an actual Rover landing, not a computer simulation?

You can see both flywheels wobble side to side, no wonder they aren't balanced!

Cement cutters!

The vibration is caused by the wheel not being balanced correctly.

Spin it up to 20000 rpm and let it go at a bus lol