Cycling Charger Thingy

Posted on Mon 21st, September 2009

• #1

LaLiLuLeLo

So, I'll be touring sometime during the middle of 2010.

Cycle = Electricity = Power

I noticed that the fella, James Bowthorpe (Congrats to him for his recent achievement) had a little DIY charger going on, I think he mentioned that it was in the Hub, and a cable run from it to a big nice DIY battery, with all sorts of ports.

The only thing I have found is chargers that keep your bike light lit up the more you cycle, but some people have rewired these things to create them.

Does anyone have any experience with anything like this? I'd like to construct one similar, but not as big. Enough to charge things I need overnight/day, Camera Battery/Phone and maybe some other bits.
• #2

TheBrick(Tommy)

It can be done it's not cheap though. You'll need a dyno hub plus something like this ...

http://www.bumm.de/index-e.html?docu/361e.htm

http://bikehugger.com/2009/09/biologic-freecharge-video.html

http://bikehugger.com/2009/09/charge-your-ipod-with-your-bik.html

some DIY ones online too. Otherwise it's a solar panel which have variable reports You seem to need to be in a very sunny place like Saudi.
• #3

TheBrick(Tommy)

These are two DIY ones I found when I looked into it but decided it was too expensive just to charge a phone.

http://www.mark-ju.net/bike_ride/equipment/charger.htm

and

http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/?o=3Tzut&doc_id=3295&v=3B&term=dynohub&context=all

just found this too

http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/bike_charger/

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