12 Volt Charging

"John Miller" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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Randy Gross wrote:
It's not Perpetual Motion. There are two sources of power here.

Well, there's the error. There two fewer sources of power than you think.

The battery is a device that stores power.
The alternator is a device that converts power.
Neither is a source of power.
You all mean energy, not power, right? Ratch

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Ratch wrote:

You all mean energy, not power, right? Ratch
You bet. Under the circumstances, it seemed that it would be less confusing
to the original poster to correct only one error at a time.

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On Sun, 23 May 2004 00:59:40 -0400, Randy Gross <rgwg99@acsplus.com>
wrote:


This alternator is hand built with two banks of 3 phase windings. The
rotor has 16 permanent magnets separated on a two 8 pole disk. This is
the power source and, along with the battery, are consumable. I am
simply trying to arrange it to where they work together to produce the
result I want and stay within the law. Each one of these devices
produces power, one has to be charged, the other rotated to produce. My
problem is the handshake.
The alternator does not _produce_ power or energy, it only _converts_
the mechanical energy that drives it into electrical energy, and it
does that with less than 100 % efficiency, regardless of how fancy you
make it, or how many sets of windings it has. The total power out of
the alternator will always be less than the power required to drive
it.



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