Recent content by knightscape

I understand that resistors in parallel decreases overall resistance and I am familiar with calculating the combined resistance of them in parallel. I was talking about paralellel or series in two different places: 1. The resistors in parallel I tried were on the alternator's output line...

A fairly common number tossed around by cyclists is 150w for sustained output. I'm a fairly strong rider so I anticipate that I should be able to get that much out of my legs. I know there's drivetrain loss in the system and other limiting factors. I'm basically looking to see how much of...

Hello, this is my first post here! I am building a bicycle-driven generator using an alternator and battery (12v) pulled from a dead car. I can easily spin it up to the point where the alternator self energizes and produces output, but on a dead or low battery, the load on the alternator is so...