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Modifying Car alternator
By guruji, Section Newbies Posted on Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 12:08:53 PM MST
Modifying alternator

Hi guys I saw on youtube a guy modyfied a car alternator by removing the turning coil with two speaker magnets.
Is this not the most easy and efficient one to acquire a wind generator than building one from scratch as it is said in work force?
Thanks

Modifying Car alternator | 4 comments (4 topical)

Re: Modifying Car alternator (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by tanner0441 on Wed Nov 04, 2009 at 12:53:53 PM MST

Speaker magnets have their poles end to end not round the perimeter I would be very skeptical as to its efficiency.

I messed with alternators for nearly 12 months and decided it was a waste of time, I even tried re winding them, they need to turn too fast to do anything useful.

Read on here about car alternators even the commercialy modified ones, also the back bearing is normally a bush and wear out quite quickly.

Brian.

Re: Modifying Car alternator (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by hiker on Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 04:20:34 PM MST

try a truck alt--big bearings -- front and back--bigger lams for more wire..
this one has 42 winds outer coils-maybe #18 wire..[picts at photobucket-cant upload here !!!!!!!!!]
inner coils are 50 winds--lighter gauge wire..
two three phases--9 and 12 combo--two sets of nine coils--12 mags[24acually]
4 rects--2 per for each set of nine coils--
with just the one set of nine i could light up a 50watt bulb-about 8 volts..turning by hand..
should make for a nice little alt........will post story when done--maybe-cant seem
to upload any picts here.............
http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/hiker_07/
WILD IN ALASKA
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Re: Modifying Car alternator (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by hiker on Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 04:46:06 PM MST

hmmm........did i just compromize my photobucket site?????
oh well-picts are all stored away...............
WILD IN ALASKA
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Re: Modifying Car alternator (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by kurt on Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 09:43:18 AM MST

no you did not comramise your gallery on photobucket people can look at it but they cannot change it or mess with it it is password protected and you did not give out the password. anytime you link a picture from one of those sites a person can trace it back to your home gallery anyway if they want..... but they cannot hurt nothing by doing that just look at your pictures.

http://www.reresource.org/

IRC
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