Designing a Faraday Generator Suit | Get Answers Here

[GoldenTurtle]

Hello everyone, I need help designing a Faraday Generator suit.

It's basically a bunch of small Faraday generators (the kind used in flashlights), sewn into the fabric of outer clothing and connecting to batteries to charge them.

The problem is that I have no idea what it will take to make these small generator tubes.

I'm hoping for a max diameter of an inch and a max length of 3 inches.
I plan on using simple copper wiring, neodymium magnets, and plastic tubes.

Could you guys please fill me in on some equations I need to know, and how much power a single one of these generators can produce in an hour of steady, continuous use?

Thanks.

 

[sparkey]

what is the application of this suit for? i don't see y one would want to wear a suit of generators. it seems...painful.

 

[GoldenTurtle]

what is the application of this suit for? i don't see y one would want to wear a suit of generators. it seems...painful.

It's to charge a cell phone, iPod, or multiple devices.

And they're sewn in so that they don't even touch the skin, they're embedded into gloves, boots, etc.

So are you going to HELP me or what?

 

[sparkey]

i suppose the beginning then is do you know how to build a a Faraday Disc Generator?

 

[GoldenTurtle]

They're NOT DISCS.
They're just like those rechargeable flashlight Faraday generators.

 

[sparkey]

The power generated is dependent on the size of the coil that you create and the intensity of the magnetic field.

i believe this is the formula that you may be looking for however
e = N(dΦ/dt)

 

[berkeman]

Mentor note: I had to edit this thread a bit to keep it on track.

GoldenTurtle -- sparkey is just pointing out that a suit like you propose, based on a number of induction coils responding to bounces of movement, would be bulky and heavy, and probably would not be the optimum way to harvest energy from body movements. I think this issue has been addressed elsewhere, and will see if I can find some info. You can also google something like energy harvesting from body movements...

 

[berkeman]

I googled energy harvesting body suit, and got lots of good hits. Here's the first one:

http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-01/harvesting-energy-humans

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