Freerunner-powered bike ride

Brad Midgley bmidgley at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 02:08:25 CEST 2008


Hey

> My solution consists of a MOSFET rectifier bridge and a low-dropout
> linear voltage regulator that outputs 5 volts:
>
> http://www.iki.fi/~msmakela/electronics/dynamo5v/

a switching regulator would generate less waste heat and present less
physical resistance in the dynamo. Maybe it's negligible, but it's not
that much expense to upgrade from a linear regulator.

I have one of these http://www.dimensionengineering.com/DE-SW050.htm
that I could try once I have a hub dynamo.

-- 
Brad




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