Unique motor-wheels of Shkondin

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

On the very border of the Moscow region, beyond the Oka, 80 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, there is a charming "science town" Pushchino. Seriously pompous - "science city" - somehow it does not suit him, just a little more than 20 thousand inhabitants. They, however, account for as many as 9 research institutes and the Radiophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. And one inventor is Vasily Shkondin.

Where genius lurks

We are waiting for Vasily Vasilyevich in the parking lot of the Protein Institute - there he rents premises for a laboratory workshop. "Frost and sun is a wonderful day." A fresh foreign minivan appears, with Shkondin himself driving. Invites you to follow him. We drive along the winding paths of the institute and finally we park on a tiny area in front of the back of some large one-story building, reminiscent of a medium-sized workshop. We get to know each other - at first glance (and at the second too) the inventor does not at all pull on the year of birth 1941. The pre-prepared image of the "unrecognized genius" melts like a park in the wind.

We are greeted and sniffed by a medium-sized hound. It can be seen from the eyes that he is not a puppy for a long time, he is a serious companion and he is Shkondin's first surprise. The inventor claims that the dog is 22 years old. He read the distrust on my face and called the assistants as witnesses - as it turned out, he nailed to the workshop as a very small puppy in 1992, from the first day of the lease. I thought - maybe the institute is not engaged in research on the structure and functions of protein, but long ago decided the question of how to overcome old age? And Shkondin is suspiciously young and energetic …

Inside a small one, no more than 100 sq. m, a space divided into three spaces, the atmosphere of a typical motorcycle workshop. Everywhere you look - frames, wheels, a scooter and a solid three-wheeled bike. Closely … A huge antediluvian milling machine takes up a lot of space. And only looking closely, you notice that the wheels are unusual - discs are installed inside the rims, outwardly something like film boxes. Testers, magnets and some other completely unfamiliar parts prevail on desktops.

Technique on the verge of fantasy

A weighty three-seater and three-wheeled rickshaw bike, with huge soft seats, a heavy frame, wide wheels and completely devoid of any fairings designed to save fuel and energy (shoe box aerodynamics, or even worse), can overcome 14 liters of fuel without refueling 1400 km - the merit of Shkondin's motor-wheels. Consumption - 1 liter per 100 kilometers. A large and powerful motor was thrown away, a small and weak gasoline engine was installed, which is designed to compensate for mechanical losses and recharge the batteries. The dynamics are brutal. It remains to create a structure with noble shapes, originally designed for Shkondin's motor-wheels, and a revolution in the automobile industry will be inevitable.

It was possible to test in practice not the newest and most "simple" development of Vasily Vasilyevich - a bicycle with a motor in the rear wheel and several batteries. Shkondin looked at me doubtfully, at the snow and ice, switched the engine to low speed (up to 40 km / h), instructed: “The brakes are normal, do not turn the pedals. Here is the throttle, like on a motorcycle."

I perched on the saddle (minus 22 Celsius, a thick sweater and sheepskin coat are not the most comfortable clothes for "running tests" of cycling equipment) and turned the throttle handle towards myself. With difficulty, he parried the desire of the great to stand on the rear wheel and overturn the rider. From behind I hear Shkondin's scream: "Caution !!!" Desperately I brake - less than a meter is left to the brick wall … Only then I realized, realized what power is hidden in these Shkondinsky motor-wheels. I got used to it, made a few laps, dreamed - oh, I would have such a miracle - to cut across Moscow in the summer.

Vasily Vasilievich often flies on it to his dacha in the Tula region. It is not very far, a little over 30 kilometers. The advantage of his motor-wheels over all the others is not only low weight, many times long distances of runs on small and completely ordinary acid batteries (he also showed ultra-modern batteries, they will be installed on new models), but also a colossal thrust, a moment of force, expressed in newtons -meters (Nm). You don't need to pedal uphill, like on imported electric bicycles. Wheel motors for bicycles and scooters with a maximum electrical power comparable to a compact coffee grinder have a torque of up to 65 Nm - confirmed by tests at MPEI.

For information: for a gasoline internal combustion engine of a small car (the same "Zhiguli"), this figure is 70 Nm … And efficiency - 30% … For motor-wheels, the latter figure reaches the unthinkable 94% … Therefore, it is pointless to evaluate Shkondin's engines by power in watts and horsepower, and this was recognized by all experts from scientific institutes.

And Shkondin also boasted a motor suitable for a light helicopter or airplane. He held it in his hands - heavy, more 20 Kg … But its power, in terms of thrust, in terms of torque, is 270 Nm … By automotive standards - a modern three-liter six-cylinder engine with a capacity of over 200 h.p.! For twin-engine aircraft 4-8 seats - the very thing.

Vasily Shkondin has exhibited his technique many times around the world. Provides for testing and testing in reputable domestic and foreign institutes and laboratories. Everything that has been created by other designers and companies in this area is inferior to Shkondin's motor-wheels in all respects: with equal power, the weight is three times more, the energy consumption is twice as high, the speed is several times lower.

Vanity around the wheels

Shkondin patented his invention - the first generation wheel motor - in 1991. And since then he has been busy with its development. Today the fourth generation is ready. He keeps his know-how to himself, does not reveal all the secrets. The crooks have repeatedly tried to bypass it, they are attracted by the seeming simplicity of the design. It seems to be a minimum of details, no computer sophistication, "critical" technologies. But everything that is primitively copied (stolen) from him works, at best, like a normal electric motor.

There was a moment - a couple of successful businessmen rushed to Cyprus on a private plane (some time ago he had the opportunity to spend time there for a long time). Spun around, looked at the equipment and said - we pay any money for a couple of bicycles. No question, Shkondin sold it. A month and a half later, the same couple reappeared on the horizon, but with disgruntled faces and the claim: "We made your motor-wheels one to one, but they don't work!" Shkondin was not surprised, advised not to follow the Chinese path, but to buy a license: “When you bought it, they said, will we ride? So go for a drive ".

Abroad, entire laboratories and research teams have been trying to unravel its secrets for a long time, with solid, hundreds of employees, staffs. There were both ours and English "partners". And all as one were engaged in the fact that they attracted hundreds of millions of dollars, conducted marketing research, seduced by the apparent simplicity of the design, admired the prospects and, without having time to start serial production, out of greed, threw the inventor out of business … As a result, their copies remained ordinary fakes.

The only country where Shkondin's motor-wheels are produced is India … So "successfully" he once collaborated with a team of people from Alfa Group. Under his motor-wheels, they acquired the world's largest bicycle factory (10 thousand bicycles per day). Some of them are specially designed for the installation of motor wheels. But even here the lack of participation of the author of the invention had an effect - the motor-wheels of the Indian spill have long been inferior to his subsequent developments.

Not a perpetual motion machine

The inventor cautiously emphasizes that I am not against the modern “hydrocarbon energy structure”. And he does not advocate abandoning traditional energy sources: gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel. I suppose, also because, as an enlightened person, he understands perfectly well that the oil and gas giants, with such a formulation of the question, will crush him like a small bug. And do not forget - Shkondin invented three decades ago not a dream of mankind, not a perpetual motion machine with an efficiency higher than one (that is, capable of providing itself with energy and sharing it with the consumer), but highly efficient motor-wheels for transport and generators of electricity.

The efficiency of his inventions, of course, is unusually high, close to the coveted unit, but all the same, as Vasily Vasilyevich says, “a few amperes are not enough”. And these amperes must be replenished somewhere, with the help of the same classic internal combustion engines or storage batteries, which, when charging, consume energy not from "space", but generated at various hydroelectric power plants, nuclear power plants, thermal power plants, etc. It turns out that his case is by no means a revolutionary breakthrough into the unknown and is fully consistent with the postulates of generally accepted physical theories. Or is Mr. Shkondin darkening, hiding something?

At the exit from Pushchino in the direction of the highway to Moscow, there is a banner over the road. Not the usual protocol "Bon voyage!" (read - "the path of the tablecloth" or "get out of here, but quickly"), and the first time you meet - "Come back!".

Well, we will definitely return to the motor-wheels and generators of Shkondin. Today Shkondin's work is in demand, a large concern is preparing sites for the mass production of wheel motors and related equipment, possibly for military purposes. His workshop moves to spacious premises under 2 thousand square meters. meters. And the situation is right, statesmen of all levels are recklessly talking about the need for "modernization" and "innovation". Here are the cards in their hands.

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