Pedal Powered Television

Very Very nice!

Hmm... If I were pedaling to watch TV (not a bad idea by the way); would have to be an OLED TV or at least an LCD until OLED was readily available.

do you have to have a capasitor? what is it for? cant you just run directly to the 400 watt 12v inverter? great vid!

To run TVs with degaussing circuits, yes, you need either a battery or a capacitor. You don't need a 58 Farad capacitor, but you need something. The degauss circuit draws more power than you can pedal, so the voltage drops and the inverter cuts out when it kicks in.

Flat panel TVs don't have this problem (no degaussing circuit).

Plasma = more power. Perhaps you mean LCD.

1)correct
2)they are 165mm
3)????
4)gearing wastes power
5)watch again. The generator is pivoting down under it's own weight and into the drive flywheel.

thats a 27 inch tv

That's a sweet idea, but that guy was pedaling pretty fast and could not keep the capacitor charged. We saw it drop about 2 volts in about 40 seconds. I'm sure that that inverter will shutdown when the voltage gets to about 10 or 11 volts. How long can someone keep the TV on?

Hi,

The roller drive roller was slipping. Sustaining 120 watts is a workout, but on a properly adjusted PPPM it can be done. I generate at that page for 45-60 Watt-hours every morning. That would more than keep up with that TV.

Very much exercise. Bit to much for me. lol