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Electrical generators for lazy dummies
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Dear all,
I have been looking in vain now for a source that explains in a
slightly patronizing non-caffeine manner (the dummy part) the very
fundamentals of calculating electrical generators - i.e. the formulas
that let me know how many windings of what material will result in
what voltage, and so on - all the way to a small simple functional
hobby generator (possibly powered by having my neighbours dog run in
circles in the backyard).
What I am looking for are the basic formulas and how they interconnect
that allows me to model in an excel sheet the different ways to build
a small-scale generator without actually having to build it (the lazy
bit).
I am not an electrical engineer and have read the first chapters in
Giblisco's Electricity and Electronics.
Pew!
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| phil-news-nospam@ipal.net 2008-02-27, 1:25 pm |
| On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:55:07 -0800 (PST) Nick <nicholas.obody@gmail.com> wrote:
| I have been looking in vain now for a source that explains in a
| slightly patronizing non-caffeine manner (the dummy part) the very
| fundamentals of calculating electrical generators - i.e. the formulas
| that let me know how many windings of what material will result in
| what voltage, and so on - all the way to a small simple functional
| hobby generator (possibly powered by having my neighbours dog run in
| circles in the backyard).
Gone are the days of using squirrels/gerbils/hamster on a belt track.
Don't they use oxen walking in a circle in some other countries? So
now we get dogs to do that by dangling the unused squirrel in front
of them?
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