Does anyone know of a Watt Meter that can hold a cumulative total of power generated over a number of sessions?? OR a circuit – I can make pcb and solder.
Oh – another question if anyone knows: being diabetic I like to track the calories that I burn (can relate to glucose levels). My off the shelf treadmill of course has its own manufacturers digital readout. Is ther anyway to relate the watts of electricity generated on the PedGen to mechanical watts / calories expended??
Gee
I had that same problem until my Watt Meter went haywire.
So I have a digital bike speedometer/odometer...Schwinn 8 function ? Clock, speedometer, odometer, average speed
max speed, time pedaling, trip meter.
Its hooked up to the 12" bike wheel that spins the 4 " wheel on the ECM shaft.
Pedaling at a speed of about 50 rpm of the pedal crank....I would be traveling along at an actual
speed of 3.2- 3.5mph if the wheel were to be touching the ground.
Luckily when I had the watt meter working I noticied that about 1 mile took 20 minutes of this
leisurely pedaling.....in other words 1 watt/hr. for .1 of a mile.
I pedal the equivalent of 5 miles a day about the same as if I had walked that distance
the only difference my legs and feet don't have to support my weight.
Now along with kenl has said a watt meter will do the cumlative watts but I charge a lot of
Ni Cads and every time I switched batteries ....unless I hooked up another battery before I
unhooked the prior the cumulative watts got reset to 0 .
So its easier to just use the bike digital.
On the calorie question just goggle watts to calorie, you'll find some calculators for that.Seems like it's 1 watt= 1 calorie ?......or maybe thats too easy ....hmmm
Norm.....