I’ve been working in the electronics industry for over 40 years, and I’ve never seen a rotary technology that was so effective.
Ive seen lots of rotary technology, but they all seem to come down to one thing: the use of a rotating element. In the rotary tech that Ive seen lately, the rotating element is not the rotor, but the arm. The idea with the arm is that it makes it easier to turn. So in a word, its about moving the element, not rotating it. It does not move the rotor.
Rotary technology, although it has existed on a small scale for a long time, has never managed to become a commercial product. Thats because it is not as effective as it could be. We have all seen pictures of rotary drives that show the rotating element in the center of the drive, but the end user does not need to rotate the element.
In Rotary technology, the rotor is the rotating element. The idea is that the rotor makes it easier to turn the arm. The rotor is a simple hollow cylinder, and the end user doesn’t need to rotate it.
To the average consumer, the idea of a rotary drive might be a fun and inexpensive way to turn a motor. But the main issue, that the end user wont need to rotate the rotor, is that every time the rotor breaks down, it is quite expensive to replace. The average consumer simply doesnt have the money to take the time to build a rotary drive.
The rotor is a hollow cylinder. In the case of a windmill, it is usually made of wood and not metal. That creates a lot of problems because wood is a very brittle material, and thus a rotor with a wooden end user would have a very hard time making it long enough to make that end user rotate. The rotor is made of two pieces: the bottom piece with a rounded end, and the top which is a flat piece.
One of the problems with rotary technology is that it only works when the drive is rotating. Otherwise, it just comes apart. So if you don’t want to play with a rotary drive that just breaks apart, you might need to use a motor to rotate.
The issue with rotary technology is that if you try to drive it with a motor, you have to have a lot of horsepower (to rotate the rotor) to get it to work.
When you use a motor it’s like putting a rocket on the moon and not turning on the rocket. If you make the rocket on the moon, you don’t have enough horsepower to turn it off.