Conservation of energy, baby. The dyno is converting rotational energy (or angular kinetic energy) of the spinning wheel into electrical energy. And then your headlight is turning the electrical energy into light.
Hook up a battery in place of the headlight, and you've got a regenerative brake. -Randy On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 12:01:11 PM UTC-8, J Imler wrote: > > I have a couple Shimano DYNO wheels. I just noticed after several years of > riding that when you plug in the light the wheel's rotational spin velocity > decreases. Is that how it's designed? What's the cause? Thanks. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
