On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 14:01 -0700, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > > That's good to know. Does the dyno put out as much power as -- ie, is > the light as bright as it would be with -- a hub dyno? Maybe I ought > to get a tab brazed onto my commuter and onto the grocery bike. Rain > is rather exotic around these parts, anyway.
3 v 6 w is the same to a lamp regardless of whether it comes from a bottle generator or a dynamo hub. Resistance from a bottle generator is going to be more than from a dynamo hub. In addition to the real resistance, there's the psychological resistance: you hear that sound and you can just feel that resistance dragging you down. Of course, when you're not running it, there is zero additional resistance, unlike the dyno hub, which does have a very slight amt of drag when the lamp is not on. You also have to pay more mind to a bottle generator than a dyno hub, to make sure the mounting screw didn't loosen and it didn't change angle: that not only can kill your tires, it can destroy the generator in very short order. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
