My son took a look at the brakes on the Venture
last night, had a pretty good area cleared around
the shed for him, that was about 10PM.
Couple of hrs. later it had snowed 2 inches...
swept the back steps off...this morning there is
about 4 or 5 inches to clear off...as Ghurd's
words it can't ....can't snow snow snow forever
forever forever echo in my mind.
I guess my next step is to find how much torque
is required to spin a 30volt Ametek up to 12volt
cut in....the old rope around a drum with weight
thing.
I guess I'll spend most of today just tinkering
around at the kitchen table....snowing and
blowing about 15 mph. today....a Lenz turbine
big enough to put out 100 watts at this windspeed
is what I want to build.
In the meantime restarting an exercise regeime
..like a few minutes at a time for the legs...
then a few minutes with the arms on the pedgenerator
brought a 12v 5amp/hr up from 12 to 13v altho'
I suspect this one has lost some capacity and
maybe checking and cycling thru a few times will
probably improve it's performance luckily this is
the worst of the 8 that I have....interesting
exercise for me ....so while it improves my
health it further helps my hobby.