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Q. So I'm in college in Ireland and we're running a green week very soon and for fun I want to see if i could run a few electrical devices with the power of cycling. Anyone any ideas on how I could get my hands on the equipment to do that?
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You really have two choices the '12 volt route' or the '240 volt route'.
There are small kettles that run on 12v that plug into a car lighter socket - so you could charge the car battery from an old bike dynamo and run the 12v kettle from that (by propping up the back of the bike so its off the ground, or (even using a smaller sealed gel battery that could be put into e.g a saddlebag).
To use a mains 240v kettle is more tricky- but possible, here you will need a substantial car battery ( charged from the bike - maybe get hold of an old car alternator and run a pully system off the back wheel? ) and an inverter that will cope with the wattage of the kettle, most modern kettles are very high wattage but you can get 1,000 watt versions. The problem is that a 1000 watt inverter can be expensive, probably around £70 but check ebay?
These are only ideas, don't do it or mess with mains voltages if you don't know exactly what your are doing and can do it safely, better still take the advice of qualified electrician!
All the kit needed can be found on ebay
You really have two choices the '12 volt route' or the '240 volt route'.
There are small kettles that run on 12v that plug into a car lighter socket - so you could charge the car battery from an old bike dynamo and run the 12v kettle from that (by propping up the back of the bike so its off the ground, or (even using a smaller sealed gel battery that could be put into e.g a saddlebag).
To use a mains 240v kettle is more tricky- but possible, here you will need a substantial car battery ( charged from the bike - maybe get hold of an old car alternator and run a pully system off the back wheel? ) and an inverter that will cope with the wattage of the kettle, most modern kettles are very high wattage but you can get 1,000 watt versions. The problem is that a 1000 watt inverter can be expensive, probably around £70 but check ebay?
These are only ideas, don't do it or mess with mains voltages if you don't know exactly what your are doing and can do it safely, better still take the advice of qualified electrician!
All the kit needed can be found on ebay
Are there any sites about charging batteries by bicycle power for running appliances or lights in the home?
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In our area, the electricity is often interrupted. I would like to be able to charge a battery using bicycle power that would run some lights or perhaps run a toaster when this happens. Do you know of any websites that might assist me? (I'm probably using all the wrong words for a search. I have looked.)
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There used to be (and may still be) a magazine called The Mother Earth News, along with a spinoff called Lifestyle.
These magazines had lots of articles about home energy generation. I think they had one about using bicycles to generate power
See if you can find the content for these magazines by searching on their names. If nothing else, they might provide some additional search words.
There is also an old book called How to Design an Independent Power System by T. D. Paul and published in 1981. If you could get a copy, like from Alibris (it was $4.95 new), you could probably design a bicycle battery charger yourself with the info you get from reading it.
Hope this helps!
There used to be (and may still be) a magazine called The Mother Earth News, along with a spinoff called Lifestyle.
These magazines had lots of articles about home energy generation. I think they had one about using bicycles to generate power
See if you can find the content for these magazines by searching on their names. If nothing else, they might provide some additional search words.
There is also an old book called How to Design an Independent Power System by T. D. Paul and published in 1981. If you could get a copy, like from Alibris (it was $4.95 new), you could probably design a bicycle battery charger yourself with the info you get from reading it.
Hope this helps!
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