FLYWHEEL

FLYWHEEL

• Comprises a 200 x 48mm machine turned and carefully balanced flywheel weighing approximately 12Kg held by a horizontal shaft running on low friction ball-bearing races.
• A mechanical  revolution.
• Supported on a metal bracket with holes for wall mounting if required.

(Wikipedia excerpt: ..."...A flywheel [F] is a mechanical device that uses the conservation of angular momentum to store rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy proportional to the product of its moment of inertia and the square of its rotational speed. In particular, assuming the [F] moment of inertia is constant (i.e., a flywheel with fixed mass and second moment of area revolving about some fixed axis) then the stored (rotational) energy is directly associated with the square of its rotational speed.

Since a [F] serves to store mechanical energy for later use, it is natural to consider it as a kinetic energy analogue of an electrical Inductor. Once suitably abstracted, this shared principle of energy storage is described in the generalized concept of an accumulator. As with other types of accumulators, a [F] inherently smooths sufficiently small deviations in the power output of a system, thereby effectively playing the role of a low-pass filter with respect to the mechanical velocity (angular, or otherwise) of the system...)