Homemade Electric Generator Review - Alternative Energy Use
Author: Gary Ashby
If you take some precious time out from your daily routine then you can make such a machine which can reduce a lot of your electricity bills. This can be done if you build homemade electric generator. You can make these engines very easily at home. With a very less amount of investment you can save a lot on your electricity bills.
Some of the products which you will be needing while making them are batteries, nuts, bolts, blades, turbine, middle solid core to join the blades etc. So you need to make a list of these products, and plan all the product list which is important to make them.
The basic problem lies in the process of searching for the proper source from where you can get this product. Always the ideal source will be such a shop which will offer you great variety of products at a really very cheap price. And for these, local hardware stores is the best.
The most critical path in this process is to join all the materials with one another and finally to make the engine. It will be better if you make this engine with the help of a manual guide, provided on various websites. In this manual guide you will get the complete formula of making these engines.
The cost of making an engine at home is approximately 0 or even less than that. So reduce your tension from the increasing electricity bills and get yourself the best alternative of huge electricity bills. Just get some time out from your busy schedule and build homemade electric generator.
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How can I build a homemade electric generator using simple materials found in local stores?
please provide your answers with the needed materials, a step by step explanation, and a brief scheme of the way of construction.
Why won’t my homemade electric generator work?
I put in new wires, new lightbulbs, new batteries, and everything is in top condition except it won’t work! HELP!
I put new materials and it won’t work. It is one of those ultra simple electric generators of amasci.com.
I use the battery to test the lightbulb and it works. It is made out of cardboard and a lot of wiree wrapped around it. I use a large magnet to to try and activate it but it won’t light up when I try to make it work. PLEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEE HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
I want to build a homemade electric generator, is it important if I dont use carbon brushes?
Simple ways to build a homemade electric generator?
what are some good links, or a website to find out some different ways to power a generator and a way to create a stronger powered one?
it doesnt have to be a link, but it makes it easier if there is a picture example, or easy step by step information.
How can I make a homemade electric generator to power my house?
I was thinking about buying used car batteries from the junk yard and connecting them with jumper cables then testing the connected batteries with a battery tester to see how many volts it has. I havent tried this yet so I dont know if it will work do you guys have any idea on how to make a generator so I wont have to pay for power
To make an electrical generator, you need to have a length of wound copper wire rotating inside a magnetic field (refer to elementary physics).
Gasoline/diesel/etc. generators run basically like your car’s engine, but instead of turning wheels, it uses the motion to rotate the wire inside the magnetic field, producing electricity. Remember, energy can’t be created or destroyed. The chemical potential energy in your combustible fuel is being converted to kinetic energy, which is being converted into electrical energy.
A wind turbine is more “free” in that you don’t have to go out and buy drums of oil to make your electricity. But it works on the same principle, but in this case, it’s the turbine blades catching the wind that spins the copper loop, creating electricity.
As far as your batteries go, you may be able to store it there, but to charge any battery, from AA to car, you need the correct circuit and voltage, or nothing will happen. So you probably can’t use your batteries. But if you can, all that you an do is store the potential energy there, and use it at a later time.
But if you just want to play with making a generator, try this:
First, you need to choose the energy source that you want to convert into electricity. You can use a stationary bicycle, a water wheel, wind turbine, a bored child willing to do some menial work on a set of gears, or virtually anything else with a rotating axle. You do have to choose the source, because as I said – you can’t get energy from nothing.
Take that copper wire that I talked about, and make that loop that I also talked about, but leave two ends free (you need that to form the electric circuit). The larger the number of turns in the loop, the more electricity you can generate for the same amount of rotation. Kind of like an electric pulley system, to use a bad analogy.
Take your loop, and connect it to your energy source. You need to be able to rotate the loop end-over-end, without twisting the two connecting wires about each other, because if they do, you’ll get a short circuit, and boom, it’s done. One way to successfully accomplish this is to connect one wire to the rotating axle and the other wire to a conducting “brush” that maintains contact with a second conductor.
Make sure that you’ve sufficiently supported the loop so that it’s out of the way of any moving parts of the energy source (such as your legs and the pedals if you pay a seven year old to ride a bicycle that never goes anywhere – give them one of those hand-held video games, they’ll never notice). To make sure that you get this right, you may need to reinforce your loop with plastic or another light (but sturdy) material.
Grab some magnets (permanent magnets), and arrange them around the loop so that the loop can rotate freely between them. Take care to ensure that you arrange the magnets to maximize the field strength. One good and simple method is to make the south end of one magnet face the north end of another.
Stick the two conductors on your energy source to a battery, circuit, chainsaw, whatever it is that you want to drive. Again, you need to keep your wires separate to avoid a short circuit, so you’ll need to use some kind of brush mechanism again, or whatever more clever thing that you can come up with that I haven’t considered.
Poke the kid and get him to start peddling, or release your turbine to the wind, whatever you want. The amount of energy that you get from your turbine will depend on the efficiency of its construction, materials used, and how much mechanical energy us put in to drive it and spin the turbine itself (a faster peddling kid will give you more electricity than a slower one).
Run with it. A home-built turbine is unlikely to provide your house with any really useful power, unless you’ve really taken some time, money, and thought into it (which is possible). But you might run some simple things from your standard knock-off generator, such as perhaps basement lighting, that kind of thing.
You can buy one at Sam’s Club for about $100. Trying to improvise one would cost you more and wouldn’t be as good. I assume you are referring to generate 120 volts, 60 Hertz.
Try http://theepicenter.com/tow02077.html
http://amasci.com/amateur/coilgen.html
http://www.re-energy.ca/t-i_waterbuild-1.shtml
http://www.qsl.net/ns8o/Induction_Generator.html
You don’t need brushes if your rotor has permanent magnets and you draw power from the stationary windings. The output will be AC, but of course it’s simple to convert it to DC via rectifiers. Google “homemade brushless motor”
This question would be impossible to answer unless we know more about how it is constructed. It could be something as simple as a short circuit somewhere in the device, although I question the utility of an electric generator that requires batteries to operate.