[TheForge] Generators

[Charle B Vincent]

I was almost ready to call bullshit on this one, trying to figure out 
how much current might be produced even with the gearing etc, when I 
decided it was worth a trip to the garage to test it out.  I clamped my 
antique half inch  Mall drill in a vise,  chucked a short crank in the 
drill and hooked my vintage Simpson multimeter to the outlet, locked the 
trigger on and watched the meter.  Moderate energy cranking it produced  
half a volt and five milliamps ( twisting the chuck by hand would barely 
register and not for any aprecialble time).    My generator test and 
calibration unit's flash  ( bout thirty fuve years old ) puts out six 
volts and about a hundred times or more that amperage.  Lantern 
batteries are rated at 12ah, but you are not going to pull 12 amps out 
of them at any one time.    Low voltage and amperage, but it might 
actually have a chance with the generator running, though not sure what 
the advantage is over a battery, and I think it would still be 
magnetizing the wrong windings.

Charles


qualityrepairs at bellsouth.net wrote:

>take an old fashioned electric drill, no vari-speed, and plug it into the outlet with the generator running and the breaker turned on.  hold the drill trigger on and turn the drill chuck backwards.  This will generate enough power to energize the field without opening the generator and having to find positive and negative, etc. 
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