Free Electricity!!!🚴DIY BICYCLE POWERED🚴 GENERATOR
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- This video shows you how to make free electricity using a diy bicycle powered generator. The generator can be a treadmill motor or alternator or similar. Once you build this generator, you can charge a battery and use to power lots of things like lights, computer, a tv, charge your phone etc.
It also a great workout because you can charge something a create resistance on the motor. need more of a challenge, power something big!
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Make free electricity with an adjustable pedal powered generator. This video shows you an easy DIY bicycle generator.
This folds up (it's portable) after each use and can be used for camping, off grid, cabins, charge your computer, cell phone, electronics etc. This people powered generator creates all the green renewable energy that you can sweat out! This is also great for kids science projects to show how electricity works.
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It's not free, it expends children.
You'd need to make more children which is hard work.
2 birds, one stone - kids exercise & facilitate your Margs? You're a dang hero!🤣
Nice work! I am planing to replace my car battery and will probably use the old one to make a bike generator :)
love it! Thank you for sharing/making video!
I think I just bought this exact bike stand and looked at the resistant thing and had the exact same thought as you lmao. I don't have any of these parts but I'm gonna replicate it, and since I plan to use it frequently I might try a whole battery bank. Thanks for this! Five years ago and still helpful
Very useful and efficient
I must say that is awesome.
I've been thinking about the charge controller idea myself now I know it works well beforehand
Same, I've come to appreciate one from a cheap solar setup and this seemed like a natural progression for building a generator project but it's really nice to see that guess confirmed
Super cool. 💥 💥 💥
Hey, I'm glad that this is becoming a thing... I retired for my 40th Birthday present to me. From the ratrace....not life.
What did you do to retire so young?
@@sethmcbay5501 cut out the middle man and trusted in my self...plumbing contractors often charge in excess of $100/hr...for 9 years I made pretty good money to create a debt free life, built my house, vehicle, and instead of making money, now I make change. I now do the things I feel are best for humanity and environment...it doesn't pay as well yet,but my foundation is strong.
Impressive! Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
To have solarcontroller is goos idea BUT if you use Mppt controller you get out lot more =)
Hey just curious how long do you have to pedal to fully charge that 12 volt battery
Cool now I can make my own Gooble Box lol, #RicknMorty reference
Will a different motor put out more power and thus increase the efficiency?
I was wandering why no one added a charge controller which made it best to regulate the power ..you the men ,great minds think alike great job
Awesome
I need to make a set up like this next time the power goes out because of a hurricane
Sub done.
I want to know how much time it takes to charge up 200kva battery?
How long would it take for example to chargeup 5 car batteries?
For people unfamiliar with this how could we get more precise info, like what type of battery to use how to plug it etc
Love this idea. I am going to have my Vocational Math 2 students work on a design this year. If we get something that really works we will be selling our kits through Youth Entrepreneurs (Empowered) Market this school year.
This is NOT new! invented in Australia 1927
let me know how much electricity can it generate , would love to explore Entrepreneurship for me too
@@tabkanade Typical bike generators only output 100 watts of power. It would take *10 hours* of peddling to save perhaps 15 to 30 cents of electricity (depending on your kWh rates). For some odd reason, this question keeps getting ignored. If you buy $100 worth of gadgets to make this, you need to peddle the bike for 3333 hours just to break even, assuming your electricity is EXPENSIVE ($0.30 per kWh). You're looking at peddling 8 hours per day for 416 days straight... 😂
Awesome video champ!!! I like this more than other designs I've researched
Thanks The Khatum
Pretty Cool! I have heard of this before but this is the first time I have seen how it works. Thank You! Just found your channel & will subscribe.
Awesome. Glad you found it helpful
COOL!! I'm designing on-grid system for my apartment using a couple of battery and an "Automatic dual power controller" connected into a public network . I would like to know how many time for recharge completely your battery with a generator like yours and average speed on your bike ?
a bike takes awhile to charge a battery. It really make you appreciate the electricity that you are consuming. Not sure on average speed but with my setup i am using the lowest gear. anything else is not worth it if battery does not have a load. If you put a load on the battery while riding it will make a large difference in what you are able to do as far as speed.
Hey mate im gonna try to build this a a little side project. I just need to ask WHat kind of wiring did you use? Thanks!
I use a stranded copper wire similar to speaker wire.
@@live.life.simple. Thanks!
get a grid tie inverter and try running it back to the grid
Hello, could you please specify which kind of motor you used, I just couldn't find one that looks like that
I used a treadmill motor
Is your charge controller an mppt controller? This kind of controller would increase resistance if you were pedaling to fast and decrease resistance if you are pedaling to slow. The idea being that there is a sweet spot where you produce the most watts. As you tire down or put in less effort, the resistance would change to keep you at your sweet spot. Add in an rpm monitor to your crank and you can get a feel for where you should be out on a ride.
I would love to see this experiment with more data!
YAR MATEY!! but without the belt on output, you can't change belts for more rotations per pedal cycle, i think with how little friction, you coulda setup a setup with considerably more output just tossing in a nice sized pulley and belt, and maybe not work as hard, maybe...
00:50 go ahead and reach thru the screen and smack the @#%# outta me. I've been thinking about just trying it like that but never did because I hadnt seen a setup that way so I just stopped considering it. here I am years later, still, with no bike generator. lol. yet. Thanks for this video. Good work
Sorry if this a stupid question but if you increased the surface area of the generator so there’s more contact points then would that increase the traction and thus increase the voltage? So if someone wanted to create even more energy would that work?
Yes it would. You can also increase the weight of the tire (however you can imagine) and that would apply more force to the generator, resulting in more power per rotation.
You can't have direct contact with the tire if using an alternator unless you don't mind trashing the tire on the alternator's grooves.
yoi could just put a gasket or bushing over it.
Amps? Watts? Joules? Something?
This is what i was thinking, to use a treadmill motor, but any dc magnet motor will work to make electricity. For best results a 240 volt dc motor has the most copper windings therefore would be the most efficient for the effort applied. Though you would probably create too high a voltage so step it down with a transformer.
Awesome video! Where at in Colorado are ya located?
We have lived all over the metro and the foothills the last 15 years. Currently we are in Parker.
Retired at 40 Nice, I am out in Elizabeth. It's good to know that innovators are still around!
Wow real close. We lived in Elizabeth about 10 years ago.
hi may i ask, do you use voltage regulator? if not then how you control the voltage flow?
Alternators have 12v regulator build in
The battery controls the voltage. This is a motor not an alternator. Motors are more efficient than an alternator. The current flow into the battery or inverter. The charge controller prevents over charging.
How much would it cost to get this setup built? Thanks for the video!
Probably around $75
@@live.life.simple. Cool design - only to power the solar charge controller it has to be hooked up the battery first that already has to have power! I just got a DC-DC buck invertor - so I get 4 amps at the lowest bicycle gear. Cool that you were able to line up the belt with your wheel using a bike stand. And you don't even have a pulley on your treadmill motor! Me neither. You're the 2nd vid (not including me) that doesn't have a pulley. congrats.
I'd love to see some numbers.
As to say time to recharge a 70% depleted battery. 24v 48v config with same test results.
Just curious if this would be efficent enough to use as a backup on an offgrid system if say a solar panel was damaged erc...
Could you skip the battery and have a more simple set up for a USB to charge a phone?
I wouldn't recommend it. Sensitive electronics need pretty specific voltage limitations and wattage requirements, e.g. USB cables of all types just run on 5V not the 12V directly like this bike system uses. You can definitely mess things up by giving them too much direct power at once and also sometimes giving them too little.
Fun video! Have a link to the generator?
I used a treadmill motor that i found in a junkyard.
@@live.life.simple. That's a great design to just have the tire wheel up against the flywheel. IIf you get a multimeter then you can get an amp reading. So with a load on your battery then you have to pedal faster to increase the voltage against the "back emf" that is the magnetic induction field creating the torque from pedaling as a generator. From the videos I've seen - people get about 2 amps generated from the bicycle. Sometimes the watts are said to be 300 watts but that's AFTER they've inverted to a higher voltage of 120 - so it's still about 2 amps. haha. I am getting 2 amps while pedaling at 50 volts - so in the 2nd highest gear. What gear are you pedaling in? (Is it an 18 gear bike)?
possible to give me the stats on that motor please? There are so many of them out there and not sure what to get or look for if you want to get something that will do a decent job
It came from a treadmill, not sure what the exact stats are.
@@live.life.simple. So it says on it "united technologies automotive" 10 treadmill motor. So when I search that - then I get a motor stating 17.2 amps at 120 voltage 7099 RPM. So basically the higher the RPM value means the lower the amp rating at a lower voltage. So you get more "back emf" at a lower voltage. So it looks like you're in highest gear on the bicycle - so that's about 50 volts probably. So your controller is at about 14 volts - so it should be inverting the voltage difference of 36 volts into more amps. So you might be getting 3 amps into your motor but probably more like 2 amps. That's what I've seen in all the vids - and the set up I have - I get 2 amps also.
I HAVE BEEN HOOKED ON THIS CONCEPT EVER SINCE I SAW A BICYCLE GENERATOR CREATED BY THAT GUY WHO MADE BILLIONS OFF THE 5 HOUR ENERGY DRINK. I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO HEAR THAT HIS CONCEPT WENT TO MARKET FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC. I STUMBLED UPON YOUR VIDEO LOOKING FOR THAT. QUESTION? COULD YOUR SETUP BE ADAPTED TO THE ELLIPTICAL BIKE? I HAVE LOST MOBILITY I ONE OF MY KNEES AND CANT CYCLE WITH BOTH LEGS BUT WOULD TO ADAPT AN ELIPTICAL TO ONE OF THESE DIY GENERATORS.
is it true that only 100w energy can be generated this way?
Yes, that's right! The best case scenario is about 100 watts. So you're looking at *10 hours* of peddling to save between 15 to 30 cents depending on what you pay per kWh. Interesting that nobody has been get a straight answer when they ask that question.
Hi what power rating is your motor ie hp and vdc ty
Or the exact model please
Wait ….. so can I charge a jackery ? With a bike ????
Now my kids can watch a dvd at the end of a cloudy week ! Thank you
Where did you get the spinning motor with the wheel
from ?
loos like he got it from a 'broken" or unused treadmill.
@@Mike_Greene Thank you
Add a flywheel so that all the human powered gains don’t fade quickly.
We process lactic acid pretty fast.
A little break and we are right back on it.
Have you tried to make one with a flywheel? I would be interested to see it.
if you see a design on youtube, could you share it and tag me? I'm dying to see this too
I know its severely late to reply but if you hook up a spare bicycle tire up, fill the tires tube to 75% with water than finish it off with air, you can make yourself a cheap an easy flywheel
Hi Retired at 40,
I watched this video with my daughter (age 5 and 1/2) as part of her homeschooling about electricity. Truly an excellent video you made here -- very educational. Do you have a Twitter account?
How's your family doing during this interesting and challenging time? Do you have what you need?
I wish you and your family prosperous, long lives,
Trip Seibold
No Twitter. We are doing well and I hope you and your family are doing well.
@@live.life.simple. invented in Australia 1927. If you hook a 24V battery into an inverter and use a 24V alternator you generate 240V system, same applies to the US 110V system....duck easy!
What type of treadmill motor did you use?
I purchased a random one from ebay. Most all treadmill motors will work as long as it is permanent magnet.
@@live.life.simple. You have inspired me to tear apart the one I got for free on craigslist...hopefully the motor/generator is good I like your simple design thanks.
Hello! Super tool! How can I buy something like this ?
All stationary bicycles should have this built in. If you are going to be pedaling a stationary bike, it might as well be generating usable electricity.
Agreed. at least be able to charge your cell phone or device while riding
@@live.life.simple. Hello, what are the parameters for setting the charge controller ?
does that destroy the bike tires?
no more than concrete does
Pedal harder kids! Mommy need a margarita too! XD
So theres a couple of things i would like to ask.
1 what is the amp/ wattage outputs of this.
2 is this safe for 12v set ups and
3 do you have links to the products used? Thank you
i am not sure what the wattage is, it would depend on what you were using for a generator
it should be fine on 12v as long as you run it through a charge controller
generator can be a treadmill motor or alternator or similar
here is the link for the bike stand amzn.to/2U4AnBJ
here is a similar charge controller amzn.to/3b1KrBM
I'm showing a 4.5 amp charging current digital read out on the DC-DC buck converter I'm using with the treadmill motor while I ride the bicycle - thanks! th-cam.com/video/oPUniOsn_HA/w-d-xo.html charging a 12 volt 31 amp-hour battery/inverter
how long it takes to charge the battery full??
depends on what voltage you are starting with, if there is a load etc.
I don't get it, what difference does it make if you use a solar charge controller or not?
regulates the voltage going in and does not let voltage come out of the battery
@@live.life.simple. Forgive my ignorance, what is the benefit of steady voltage?
How much electricity does it make?
The best case scenario is 100 watts of output from a bike generator. That means it would take *10 hours* of peddling to save between 15 to 30 cents on your electricity bill (depending on what you pay per kWh). Interesting that this question keeps coming up but is never answered. So if you buy $100 worth of stuff to make this, you need to peddle that bike for 3333 hours just to break even, assuming your electricity is EXPENSIVE ($0.30 per kWh). You would need to peddle 8 hours per day for 416 days straight... 😂
Replace the rear wheel with a giant sprocket
Now that you've had this for a while. how long does it take to charge things?
That would depend on the draw of what you are trying to charge. I usually use this in the winter to keep my lawnmower and rv batteries charged. I run my computer from it. It takes about an hour to bring the computer and battery up to full charge. It would take much less for a cell phone or something like that. There are many variables.
Can you power something with this that is 1000 watts ?
1000 watts is a lot of power!
You'd need a big inverter, a battery with some serious amp-hour capacity, and to be willing to put in about as much work as you expect to get out of it depending on how much you want to run whatever device
Probably if you have a big enough battery, it will take a lot of effort though.
Assalamualikum,
I am from bangladesh, i want to build a paddle powered generator for my mom. She lives in village, where load shedding is excessive. To run a water motor w-746, v- 450 ... 1hp.
Will you help
I am weak in english & know nothing about these things. ...
Thanks for the video. Do you have links for the Power Inverter and DC Motor? Someone else mentioned using a treadmill motor (people throwing them away on the side of the streets), or a DC Motor Generator. Thank you.
Could you not just flip the motor round on a treadmill and ride your bike on it?
ok
Helpful video, thank you.
HOW TO BUILD A SELF POWERED POWER GENERATOR USING A MOUNTAINBIKE.
On your mountain bike put a chain wheel from a tandem onto the left side of the bottom bracket and hook a car alternator with a chain to it. Put the rear wheel on a triangle stand so it it off the ground. Next remove the disk brake on left hand side and replace it with a large cog. Now get to car alternators one behind the other and chain drive connect them to the cog where the disk brake used to be.
The one alternator at the back is powering the alternator attached to the front chainwheel and it has a emergency power cut switch…case of emergency. The second alternator at the back is generating electricity…hook it up to a battery charger and battery with a inverter to power your home.
Good video, but I think i`d like to learn how to retire by 40 more lol :-) Nice one mate Enjoy you retirement
👍appreciate it. Real estate is your ticket!
About how long does it take to charge a car battery using this? Some kind of ROUGH estimate please. Other replies you've kinda said "it depends." Would like at least some idea, to know if this is worth the effort. I'm a seasoned hardcore rider so an hour or two is nothing to me if it would charge a 12V.
So that depends on your battery's actual capacity, which is why explaining this gets so into detail, I'd guess that's why he's not trying to go all electricity 101 in the comments. "A car battery" can mean a pretty wide variety of things. Does "charge" to you in this case mean fully charge it, or charge it enough to get a useful start out of a car so the alternator can do the rest? What voltage do you need for the things you're trying to run? To answer your applied questions requires taking all that into account, and then there's the fact that pedalers and their speeds aren't equal, bicycles aren't equal, gear ratio relative to the size of the alternator you adapt it with will make a big difference ... So yeah, it's just not as simple as being able to give you an idea of whether an hour or two of pedaling would charge whatever 12V you want to do stuff with. I hope that's helpful somehow as a starting point for looking into the math on it for your own situation!
Looks like your Retired at 40 group didn't like me posting about bike generators. They asked me to post else where. How Rude! lol.
Hey Brian! Do you still use this? Thanks for all that you do for us out here as well. 😁👏🌱❤
I wonder if there's a way to mine bitcoin with this generator, though that would look absolutely ridiculous lol! Bunch of sweaty dudes biking their ass off, causing chaos in the blockchain 😂
using your child's energy to make a margarita lol????
😀
did this man just use his two children to mix him a cocktail? fucking genius
Gotta put that youth energy to work!
Hi, I am 11 and I am highly interested to fit my racing bike this way. Would you please then send me the procedure to sarije87@hotmail.com? Many thanks, Sara
Initial response: Got this bike for my friend. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxUiL0GnyDjP32RJdd660sP8mZk4CRLTCJ Delivery was fast. And the friend was surprised I would order it when she had never suggested she wanted anything but the pedal bike she had. She has now ridden the bike two times and gives it a 10 and says it is very fun. We have some hills in our town that are very challenging to climb on a typical bike. But tonight she went up with the pedal assist and loved it. I was way behind on my standard bike, huffing and puffing. Now she is no longer lagging behind me. This thing is powerful enough that a person could go around town without any pedaling. She likes to get some exercise so on flat ground she hits the red button to turn off pedal assist and only uses the twist throttle when she's in a tough spot. The bike looks good. It is really a very nice bike for the friend. Now for me, when I get an electric bike, I'm twice her size and will be looking for a bigger watt motor and battery. But this one is just wonderful for my friend. I am happy with this purchase.