On Friday, March 22, 2024 at 6:55:19 PM UTC-5 Max S wrote: A dyno hub puts out a nominal 3 Watts. If you ride it for an hour, that's 3 watt-hours worth of electricity. Let's say it gets split between the light and your phone. If you ride continuously for 10 hours, that's about 30 watt-hours. Let's say half is used to power the light, half to power the phone...
I probably read the same long, nerdy article as Johnny A, and I think you’ll actually get less than half of that going to the phone (or whatever else you plugged in). That’s why I set up my system to be one or the other. And, as Jason said, you actually can damage your phone because of the variable power output. I set up my system primarily so I can charge a power bank if needed … hopefully as I’m coasting down a nice long mountain descent where I can convert all that potential energy into stored electrons. I also like the idea of being able to power the lights from the battery instead of the generator when I’m on a long climb. Every watt counts :-) But day in, day out, I like having the lights “always on” running off the generator. Ted Durant Milwaukee, WI USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a8d5507e-0b0f-40b3-8e4a-4e20f7fa9c24n%40googlegroups.com.
