Sorry about starting a thread on a no-go topic. I honestly didn't know (I'm sort of new to this forum, didn't see any rules thread in the electrical engineering topic). I'm not really interested in making a generator. The only reason I had started to think about it was because I, being naive...
I wasn't exactly sure whether this belongs in the mechanical or electrical section.
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That was the video I saw that made me want to start a project. This would be my first, and I haven't taken physics or anything yet, so I don't know some a lot of things...