This is a regular hamster running wheel hooked up to a stepper motor I had laying around scavenged from old printers/scanners.
The Roborovski Hamster, although it is the smallest hamster existing, it is also the one who runs faster, making possible to light up the white LEDs.
I don't think a Syrian Hamster (the bigger, most common one) is able to make as much power has the Roborovski as they run much slower.
Detailed generator mounting photos at:
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/975/wheelu.jpg
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/5441/generator1.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/1830/generator2.jpg
About 3 V AC (RMS). I have to make a very low loss rectifier to do someting with it.
rjscost 1 year ago