After several attempts, I finally got the motor and alternator on separate batteries. The alternator is putting out -3.4 amps. I had the alternator checked two places. 1) at a parts house which said it was bad and 2) at an alternator shop which said it was good.
There are 2 wires going to...
O.k.
Perhaps I'm wrong.
I'd still like to figure out what I'm doing and what my results should be compared with what they are.
For instance:
I finally installed my ammeter and tested the setup this morning. The results are:
1) -12 amps with only the motor running...
I've been thinking about the amount of energy I could get out of my alternator's magnets and I wonder: "If the magnetizer used to magnetize the iron bars is run for X number of minutes at y strength, then is the amount of energy imparted into the magnet large or small"? Aligned with your...
Fish,
As you said: "I am certain you think your idea is not about perpetual motion, but I assure you it is."
Your assumption that I was not thinking in terms of perpetual motion is correct! However, I didn't know that what I'm attempting to do is a variation of it. I know that perpetual...
Finally, an answer that makes since.
I didn't realize that I was reducing the torque when I mounted a larger pully on the motor, trying, to turn the alternator faster. Nor that the torque should figure into the Power formula.
Humm.
I'll look at my problem from that angle and see what I...
Even though the alternator is a High Output alternator?
It just seems to me that I could turn the alternator with the motor using a 3 to 1 ratio reduction so the alternator was spinning faster than the motor and the alternator being a High Output alternator would output more that was input...
Question:
If I have a motor that drives an alternator, is it possible to get more electricity out of the alternator than I put into the motor to turn the alternator?
For example:
I have a 12 volt DC motor with an approximate 3 to1 pully/belt/pully drive from the motor to the alternator...