[Stoves] Experiences Using a Hand Crank Generator for Fan Stoves

[AJH]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:11:06 -0800, Charlie Sellers wrote:

>See: http://www.bioenergylists.org/en/sellershandcrankpower 

I decided to investigate this a bit more and dismantled a redundant cd
drive. It yielded 2 two wire motors of the type Charlie describes, one
for positioning the laser and one for the door/tray. The actual
platter motor is on its own printed circuit board with an 8 wire
ribbon connecter, I cannot see how to make this latter generate
electricity.

The first two are the sort I remember from toy cars

I then took apart a hand cranked 3 led torch. Its generator was the
same size and very similar to the two from the cd drive. This torch
has a failed cell, so it only lit when cranked. It's a lithium ion
3.6V button cell that costs GBP450 to replace, the whole torch costs
less!

Although these drives may be a rich resource for small generators I
still have reservations and favour the thermo-electric generator
approach.

AJH