Help: Generating AC with Hand-Driven Generator

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The discussion focuses on designing a hand-driven AC generator, emphasizing the relationship between the number of coil loops and the output voltage and current. The user references Faraday's Law of Electromagnetic Induction to understand how coil loops affect energy generation. It is established that increasing the number of loops in the coil results in higher voltage but lower current output. Additionally, the user seeks guidance on storing generated energy in a battery.

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Hello

I am supposed to design a hand driven AC generator. I kinda know how to do it. You just have some sort of coil and you rotate it in a magnetic field. Thats all good but for analysis part I am required to give specific information information about no of loops of the coil and total energy out including voltage and and current stuff. So far I haven't found anything linking coil loops with voltage/current output etc. All I have managed to find, well I got it off a seminar that since more photovoltic cells => more voltage and less current. Therfore more coil loops=> more voltage and less current.
This is where I need help with. I need something that relates coil loops etc with Voltage and current output in a constant field.

Thanks
 
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kool...farady's laws...flux and stuff...coil l in mgf B etc...its all coming back...just another question on that...

If I was to store X joules of energy from it to a battery? how would I do it?
 

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