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Here we see three 24 volt DC brushed motors connected in parallel behind a schottky diode, belt-driven by the flywheel of a belt-driven Nordic Track ACT II elliptical exercise machine. The outputs of these 3 motors, feed two 12 volt batteries connected in series with a 1000uf capacitor across the output leads to prevent feedback to the motors from the battery. This is only a test setup. I had been using buck converters but they just were not cutting it. This direct connection to the batteries, seems best thus far. More to come! What do you think the output wattage of this, is? 2 of the motor/generators are rated to 19 amps, the third to 14 amps though they are all supposedly 350 watt motors.

Electric power today costs about .03/amp hour at 120 volts to buy, but what if it were not available, what if fuels easily converted into electrical energy, ceased to be delivered to one's local region? If energy ceased to flow to the grid, a couple things would happen. One thing would be, that fuels easily converted to electricity would swiftly deplete as those to whom it is most available hoard it, use it up. Another thing would be, that since the capacitors and metals involved are useful, scavengers would dissemble the electrical grid to the point where it could not easily be re-energized. These simple occurrences could have profound impacts upon the way of life of the general population of a region. These are easily imaginable situational, environmental circumstances, wherein the real world value of electric power becomes much greater than than .03/amp-hour. Orders of magnitude greater. Solar is great when the sun is out, if you are not in the trees. Wind works if you are somewhere windy. Generators are great if you've the fuel to run them. If you had a donkey & could feed it, you could probably rig up a circular path and pole that drove a generator, then you could get electricity that way & store it. This is a triple generator that anyone can definitely run to some degree, capturing the energy. In the future it could be, that putting an hour into the elliptical would be the duty of every villager, as part of the village's approach toward security of its women children, seniors and disabled. This would enable the recharging of basic medical equipment, communications, lighting, security rig-ups, tools, stuff like that.

Would you feel like a 'slave to the machine', going all-out on an elliptical for an hour, so that you could in turn recover your own energy as electricity, to then apply toward life-critical practicalities such as communication, lighting, charging batteries for power tools? We are all of us already slave to our own survival. Would you put 4 hours into an elliptical every day, in order to live free for the other 20, and independent for all 24?