Way cool! Using the gooseneck and an extension with a vane on the back keeps the wheel turned into the wind. Bending the fork assembley to get rid of the rake angle so the pivot is in line with the axle helps. [grunt] Nice thing about the bike generator is that it's made to clamp onto the forks and will turn with them. Battery can be mounted to turn with the assembly too..charged and changed. [cordless power..by wheel barrow] Humm, might could suspend the whole thing from a pully in a tree top to access more wind. Considered but not tried...ganging two bike generators [6v] to get 12 v. There's room for 4 generators on a set of forks. But two would turn backwards. [is that a problem beyond wiring?] Humm, where is that old junk bike stuff...? K
At 09:07 AM 12/9/01 GMT, you wrote: >On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 09:47:49 -0500, Ode Coyote <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Has anyone ever thought to take an old bicycle wheel, front forks, bike >>light generator and some plastic jug slices for wind vanes in the spokes to >>make a wind generator out of it? > >Yup. Only I used slats from an old venetian blind (cut to length). >And a bike light generator is too small. Take the tire off and rig a >rope around a somewhat bigger generator. The only problem was keeping >it turned into the wind. > >-- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >[email protected] -or- [email protected] >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: [email protected] >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > >
