Pedal bike 12 volt power generator, dirt cheap, ghetto style

[aaaarrrgggghh]

my idea is to hook up 5 car generators to a back wheel via a belt

[peacelovepurplepanda]

What type of motor did you use? The year? Make? Any Ideas?? I[m trying to duplicate this design and am having trouble finding the right motor

[SamuraiClinton]

Hey dude, watch my bike videos, and put yourself in my shoes (not literally); and you'll see that the wattage required to run my headlights and car radio exhaust the output of alternators. This is why I use a marine deep cycle battery (simply because it provides good longevity, since I don't have to deal with premature wear on the rear tire, since money is scarce for me). I like charisma, I don't use gayass earbuds to listen to music. I wear a helmet since safety is my priority.

[ShadowAimai]

I wonder if you could connect several generators to it, and thus increase the energy output?

[budlight571]

Cool

[valentass88]

the best thing is that you can work out and generate energy at the same time!

[Tasawer786]

nice effort .but what we can do for making electricity that we may use a PC with the human made electricity ?

[zander181846]

@Tasawer786 Depending on your required power, a good rectifier would work. I'd say run it though a rectifier to convert to AC and connect it to an outlet for your adapter.

[baloonhead1]

Soooo stupid! Put a 25 watt bulb on that and it will light. But put a 100 watt bulb on it and tell me what the brake horsepower feels like! Then imagine what it would take to run your plasma screen TV. Ha, Ha! (one born every Minuit)

[astrialkil]

@baloonhead1 Are you sure the one with the plasma TV is'nt the one born every minute? Get off your duff and do something.

[baloonhead1]

@astrialkil Apparently you did not understand what I wrote. If you can't comprehend a logical point, Do not reply with hateful garbage! I said, "The greater the "load" the greater the "brake horsepower" (harder to pedal) What problem did you have with the physics?

[astrialkil]

@baloonhead1 It wasn't hateful nor garbage. You just seem to be missing the point that this is for EMERGENCY and not for fun, SERIOUSLY are you going to be watching TV after a tornado , hurricane, 10 foot snow fall, major riot? And you wouldn't be putting a 25 watt bulb nor a 100 watt , you would be putting a 5 watt LED bulb that puts out the equivalent of a 50 watt bulb. 50 watts isn't a lot but its enough to walk around your front room with out tripping on stuff.

[PrestoWind]

This was a very good clip

[gthcprinceofdarknss]

lol awesome way to charge your car or motorcycle battery

[Flashanimator10]

LOL human powered video

[KKHALIDful]

i am really inspired my your project but can you tell me how much energy it can make ? because i am gona make one for my school project and wana light a 100-200 watt bulb or something like this so please reply soon :)

[ugotpancaked]

ghetto?? i take that to offence

nigga

[Thepoetastro]

VERY WELL PRESENTED, WILL KEEP ME THINKING FOR SOME TIME!!!

THANX!!!

[kernzyp]

nice bike.

[ssj4goko4]

this has been done with altnaters as well. using the tire as a giant gear and a belt to get the 3000 rpm the altnator needs to start up it can genrate at lower rpms but they needs to be reved to start genrating. and you get mutch more power genrated.

[john17972]

Get it up to 1500 watts and you can power an electric heater to help heat my house in the winter time.

[kitchaki]

Good now add a diode and change the back wheel to something more heavier. Allso how many Wh does it produce?

[ertgunner]

you do realize that you can add a diode to make it way more efficient right ?

[BesidesDaniel]

Hello, Could I use a Dayton Permanent Magnet TENV Motor 1/35HP 2350RPM to do this? here are the specs..

3.80 amps @ 12 Volts DC; 1/2 Inch Long Studs, 2 5/16 Inches on Center; Body Diameter 3.2", Body Length 4 7/8", shaft 1/4" x 1"; Thermal Protection = None; TENV - Totally Enclosed Non-Ventilated; Continuous Duty; self-aligning sleeve bearings; Rotation = Reversible; 2M197 discontinued; 2m197; 2m272; 1lwk8;

[josephdupont]

You might try replacing the wheel with a ceiling fan motor and drive back your watt meter by exceeding the normal motor speed too.

[otivaeey]

Man, you should wear formally (black tie) for this demonstration, old british style.

[arkivx1]

Magnets, how do they work?

[astrialkil]

@arkivx1 No one knows ! Explain how magnets work with math and you will win the Nobel peace prize !

[Gen4505]

Ever heard of diods?

[NateFosterSR]

excellent video thanks

[mickwhaa]

That's brilliant it's great when people actually do stuff, well done and the music was cool. Thumbs up!

[coachgeo]

us an old 12v hhand held drill as your generator

[bigma12]

Can you please tell me what kind of biking shoes you have? I've been looking for a good pair that look like regular shoes so I can start using my clip pedals for commuting, because I don't have enough room for an extra pair of shoes in my backpack.. Thanks for the video! I am also working on a group research project for school and your video gave us an idea of where to start!! Thanks!! :)

[73prime]

Cool song it funny! nice Generator. we where thinking of making one.

[naturalist92683]

Far Out! this old hippie loves it!

[nuclearthreat545]

I have that exact bike 0:30!!!

[Mark13vs37]

the coolest

[jamrocx]

So any motor can be used as a generator?..I thought they were wired a bit differently?

Wouldn't a real alternator/generator be more efficient than a motor..

[stevenmorookian16]

@jamrocx probably, but there not that different at all.

[jotaranch]

Stationary Marathon could give free power to the poor!

[astrialkil]

@jotaranch its not free it takes time and calories to produce this power, and you wear out your knees, hips, by working so hard day after day. There is no free lunch... the poor have trouble getting enough food, this "Arab spring" over in Egypt started out as food riots !

[stevemehne]

good thing that bike wasnt a fixie when he switched it on.

[SSparks555]

Nice, very nice. Great work.

[clubcalichad20]

HUMAN POWERED VIDEO.. Hell Yeah!!

[ascwevtry56u7yjkyuh]

Yeah that's just great until you go to fast an old lady with poodle jumps in front of you and you get hit by a bus trying to avoid it then you get robbed and someone gives you a wedgy and a wet willy stabs you and takes your wallet and your loud bike and gets hit by another bus and you end up walking home dragging this heavy bike but by then its morning and you cant ride your bike cause its to noisy when you finally get it all fixed someone shoves a stick in your spokes and you go flying great

[geyshyo]

how much time u riding away

[PERKINSPRODUCTIONS1]

Paint the stand, I can't stand it AHHHHHHHHH!

Be fine with a water wheel, but not a shiny bike.

Hey I think if you add a diode you can peddle any speed you want.

[debrainwasher]

Every free energy enthusiast is kindly invited to crank my generator. For free of course. And the employment doesn't include food.

(\_/)

+_-

[Henzzman]

It would be better to use a car alternator,because most of them are ac and they will have a rectifier bridge to let the current flow in one direction.When using a dc generator,you should have a backflow relay or something like that,to prevent battery power going to the motor.

[E58565254]

@Henzzman you cant use a car alternator unless you want to gear it down because you would have to spin the alternator in excess of 2000 rpms to even be able to generate some semblance of power to use.

[Henzzman]

@E58565254 Reconnecting the windings would raise the voltage level,thus reducing the required rpm to start producing power.

[stevenmorookian16]

@Henzzman i thought alternators only put out DC, AC would kill a battery real quick.

[Henzzman]

@stevenmorookian16 They have a rectifier inside.

[awizardalso]

utuberifyer-- I built one years ago using the old (external regulator) type alternator that had the independent field coil. Seemed like an extraordinary amount of work for the amount of power produced. I think pedal power is best suited for a drive system for short term use of a machine, like my sewing machine, or maybe a water well pump, corn sheller, bread dough machine, etc. Generating electricity just doesn't seem to be very practical.

[SgtCrom]

@awizardalso, It's not practical at all. I'm going off memory here but I think you lose something like 65% of the energy you're putting in mechanically. I like your ideas, I want to add washing machine. Those suckers use a lot of juice.

[Harwkins39]

Are you putting a blocking diode on this set-up so your not fighting with the motor?

[nthnjkry]

Great vid

So every gym in the world COULD be using this technology but we are paying more for electricity and gym memberships than ever before???....

[SouthCanadian]

Nifty!

[logtype47]

Can this same technology be applied to a standard car on all four wheels.

If so how can one capture and store this energy in batteries.

[longkeith]

if i did that (and being lazy i wouldn't) i would put the front wheel to the wall in case of a catastophic but potentially funny accident!

[berrypossum]

My legs hurt just watching that.

[spritemakergager]

Awesome

[kickndave21]

So now what if you hooked 2 or 3 more generators to the same wheel? would peddeling be that much more difficult or could you multiply the output with little more effort?

[ludiagsm]

nice vid :)

[wiboater4]

Nice job! At least your getting good excercise and getting something out of it at the same time.

[iv81]

how about storing the energy when going down hill and letting it help when going back up

[ProjetLESE]

If you want to avoid pedaling like crazy to store ALL energy you produce in the battery, you have to connect a bridge rectifier (or a diode), so the current will flow only from the motor to the battery

[wiredforstereo]

@ProjetLESE Since it's DC, a rectifier is not needed, just a strategically placed diode.

[leonscorpio19]

@ProjetLESE i was thinking the same thing but i'm not too versed on it. So, if he put a bridge rectifier or a diode on the system, would that mean he would actually generate more power be pedaling the same speed? 

[bulldoggrrr]

@leonscorpio19 not really " generate more power" but actually more like waste less

[leonscorpio19]

@bulldoggrrr okay, that makes sense.. thanks. i still have a bit to learn on electricity..

[questionful]

@ProjetLESE does a birdge rectifire waste energy somehow, such as in the form of heat

[astrialkil]

@questionful Yes...you never get some thing for nothing...but a bridge rectifier makes this project much more practical.

[JonahASchwartz]

@ProjetLESE i was about to say that exact same thing about the diode. "but... pedal faster than the motor and you generate power" seems like a HUGE waste of energy

[vik95170]

exellent i love it ! can you produice 100 watts ?

[awizardalso]

vik95170- Wikipedia says a normal person can generate 1.2 horsepower briefly, 0.3hp for a couple hours and 0.1hp indefinitely. 1hp = roughly 746 watts. If that's the case, we're looking at 900 watts for a minute, 220 watts for an hour or two and 75 watts continuously. That's still a lot of pedaling!

[vik95170]

thanks ! very instereting

[astrialkil]

@awizardalso You basically saying this is only good for emergency use. And only with 5 watt LED lights that produce the equivalent light of a 50 watt bulb. And maybe run a small radio. Peddle for a few hours to recharge your deep cell battery and run a little light and a radio off it.

[awizardalso]

@astrialkil By and large, it's very impractical to say the least. I'm not saying that it's useless, just that there are very few applications that make it worthwhile endeavor to pursue. If you have good imagination abilities, it shouldn't be that hard to see what is involved here and the drawbacks that come with it.

[DrunkenScar]

mmm, wrong battery, that's a starting battery you need a deep cycle battery otherwise you'll be replacing them every couple of months or so with normal use.

[joe18370]

install a diode

[aldo531]

alguien podria traducirlo al español me intereso mucho

[aldo531]

alguien podria traducirlo al español me intereso mucho

[Euph0ria74]

Would be a good idea to contact the generator to the bicycle rim instead of the rubber sidewall of the bicycle tire so you don't wear out the tire with this.

[kalebman5000]

you could simply connect a diode to stop the motor from spinning, yet you would still be able to generate power...

[sapdeis]

Reminds me of an episode of Gilligans Island were they came up with a coconut/bicycle generator to power a radio or something.

Good job Gilligan!

[pivotboy63]

cool

[BORATMAKEMOVIE]

i would go to a junk yard and get an electic motor and make a chain adaptor for it and mount it on there and put the battery on the bike so that u can ride then charge and wen ur tired u can just power urself with the motor

[tamiyaclodbuster]

nice bike gt

[amerist]

Suggestion: Shouldn't it be possible to use some diodes to keep the energy from flowing out of the battery and only allow power to go into it? That way you don't have to pedal faster than the motor spins because the motor wont run when you switch it on but you can put energy into it.

[DarioAndreella]

Hah! Thought the same, I was just going to write it down until I saw your comment! That's right, I agree 100%, with a diode you could also pedal slower and use all the energy coming out of the motor. A 2nd idea could be to use a better way to connect the motor, f.ex. using a gymn bike stand with standard rolls.

[hellonearthisman]

Suggestion 2: Fill the tire with water to increase its mass. The more mass you get spinning the better.

[amerist]

To act like a flywheel, the tube would have to be filled with solid material. Fluids would only cause drag. Nice try though. You get a gold star for effort, now go finger paint with the rest of the children.

[witeflight]

amerist how can I be as smart as you?

[LuxuriousLuxembourg]

great make millions of these and ship them to africa and give people jobs. to power the rest of the world. :) or people in prison. or start a gym, and when people pedal. you can make money selling power hehehehe.

[kdc43]

24 years ago I built something similar using plywood,redwood 4 by 4, support wires for a bike stand and 4 car windshield motors mounted underneath the bike cargo carrier and my 10 speed bike. Used 2 short round pieces of wood from a dowel rod for drive wheels. I could charge a dead car battery in 20 min enough to start my van. 2 min pedaling got 5 min of TV watching time.

12-14 Volts

6-7 Amps

75-80 Watts

About 50% Efficiency.................Bad­.

[LuxuriousLuxembourg]

very nice man. 5 minutes? wow nice.

[rouketos]

awesome video!!!

[bronie12345]

automatic filling up the boost of your bike:P

replace your standard dynamo by this thing and the car battry pack :P

the more you'll cycle, the more boost you get for uphill

[AnonymousX2]

Someone should hold a contest to see who can design the best pedal/generator set up (The one that can substain the most power)

[thederector5]

i do the same thing you did...HEY ITS GREAT!!! i am now charging my 12volts battery with green power!!! and i also using inverter to get an ac volts! its amazing!! your invention is very useful!!!! more power friend!!!

[thederector5]

hey Darklinkad! that is your idea! go get your alternator from a junk truck. and see what you can get from PEDALING YOUR BIKE!!! ha ha ha! permanent magnet, and ecorenovatorDOTorg is right...

[thederector5]

this is good 4 the health and the environment.. 0% carbon emission..this is two thumbs up!! ;) but i guess you should used 12 amp. diode. forward to the 12v battery. put it in positive terminal...i hope i can help... ;)

[yurchardonnay]

how in the world is is 0% carbon emission??? both the electric motor/generator emit carbon but guess what its powered by carbon emitting Human. but not just carbon methane too!

but the rest of your comment is as you said "two thumbs up"

[thederector5]

So what is your problem? You dont have anything in your crap. Worthless worm bread.GET SOME JOB!

[thederector5]

Brainless mosquito. yurchardonnay you have a crap channel ..Just like you. ;)

[Smorkey1]

lol. I like how you used the bike to power the video camera

[DarkLinkAD]

Why not pull the alternator off of a junked truck??

[Kywdo]

Nice !

[hhhh1997]

u should use a diode

[BFMEOWNZ]

God change the song it made stop watching the bloody video!

[EcoRenovatorDOTorg]

2 words: volume control. You have the power.

[chris103193]

haha nice

[nnnnnn7678]

@EcoRenovatorDOTorg If you add magnets to make the back wheel spin by it self. Have you try that.

[tomperanteau]

@BFMEOWNZ Simple people respond to simple things.

[RoknRivr]

Well done! The music makes me laugh, too. I like your comment at the end about chargng the video camera.

[TheRealTehMeck]

Awesome!!!

this is great.

cool music too.