I never knew or understood until now that people could build or replace parts of a wheel. I always had thrown away my bicycle wheel when it went bad and I end up buying a whole new wheel with the free wheel (freewheel) or cassette as well. Now I know that four basic components of a bicycle wheel (Rim, Spokes & Nipples, Hub and Freewheel or Cassette) can be replace rather than discarding the whole wheel. :) Excellent explanatory & demonstration video! Thank you for posting this excellent explanatory & demonstration video! :)
Thanks, great video and easy to understand. I like the fast forward and the stopping and showing close moments. Now this looks so easy ... let´s do it myself :) Thank you for the effort of putting this together.
VERY GOOD VIDEO The hub used here IS the generator guys !!! The generator is in the hub, you will notice a power plug coming out of it. When you buy this type of generator, you have no choice but to rebuild your wheel from the spokes to the rims !!!! This video also applies to building a wheel from a regular hub (non-generator) !!!!!
Haha! The comments here are amazing! The world is full of such bright people! Personally I was expecting you to build a nuclear power plant inside a bicycle wheel, and was a little disappointed that you didn't. Was it because plutonium is hard to find? But anyway, since I am also installing a generator hub in my bike wheel, it was a very useful video! Thanks!
man that is so tedious probably gonna eat 1 whole day time just to install n tensioning the spokes not to mention centering but all in all this is the only tutorial ive found so far so thnx for this
messed up at first did a lot of adjusting till i get it right this stuff hard to master and yes took me a whole day finishing one wheelset its friggin insane
This was great. I was looking at power generating hubs but had no idea if I had to buy a new wheel with one pre-installed or if I could add it to my existing wheel. This vid allowed me to understand hub replacement and boosted my confidence to attempt it myself. How about doing one for a conversion to an internal gear rear hub (+ whatever is needed overall) ?
Hi Dan, There's so much going on inside an internally geared rear hub (see Sheldon Brown's excellent explanation: sheldonbrown.com/internal-gears.html) that there's simply no room for all the mechanical components involved in a dynamo hub. Best to leave power transmission to the rear hub and electricity generation to the front.
I think Dan might have meant converting a derailleur bike to an internally geared hub. The process of building the wheel is the same, Dan. Converting the bike introduces more variables. Shimano gear hubs require a few additional small parts which are included with some models but not others. I think all Sturmey hubs come with their small parts. Then of course you'll need a cable and a shifter, and you'll need to route the shift cable. Routing may require some creativity if the frame was made with a derailleur in mind.
too bad guys, I was glued to my monitor, learned a great deal, just until that last scene :) You use a tool, to check the tension of the spokes, what exactly is that? Does it have a measuring dial, or what exactly and how exactly do you check the tension? do you have a link to the manufacturer of that device?
Thank you very much for the practical info.Do you know,the bike is a very important part of my life,I ride it 5 to 6 hours a day,sometimes I ride it even in my dreams. The only thing that makes me really afraid and worried of death is;-Am I going to find a good bike there in that other world to ride it 6 hours a day or not?If not,well,that would be a real hell to me.
The Tension Turbine Inc can be googled. The Tension Turbine is patented. A 24 inch turbine will produce no more than about 15 watts. A 525 foot Tension Turbine will power a small city.
Didn't you lace your key (first) trailing spoke into the spoke hole on the lower (opposite) side of the rim? That seems to be the opposite of what I read from Sheldon Brown.
Will this thing produce enough power to charge the batteries on an electric bike? For $400 I want to do more than just have a light on the front of my bike.
I think the biggest problem here is , how to connect the wire from the generator hub to the parts of bicycle lights or other things...? Do you have any other videos..? thanks.!
I am planning to use my bike soon enough for delivery with Doordash and Uber Eats. I might want a generator bike wheel to recharge my battery packs. My bike was bought at $675 in 2014 and has none of it. I'd like to upgrade my bike to recharge battery packs that I mount on the back of it. Because it will keep my phone charged and my vape batteries charged.
My nitecore charger for my 18650 batteries needs 9V, and most dynohubs only generate 6V... If you vape at 150 watts and 1 set of batteries is not enough for a work day, then just bring an extra set of batteries to work. I vape the Aegis Legend (like i saw you had in a video), and it lasts me the entire day when i vape at 64 watts. If you bring a pod to work (i have the "smoant pasito" rebuildable pod, and it is actually pretty decent), then you can charge it with a regular battery bank, and if you have one with 2 outputs, you can charge your phone and pod simultaneously...
Simple stuff,don't know why people think there is some sort of black magic to it? Maybe it's because of people tensioning the spokes by ear and matching the tone when pinged? Always built my own. My jig is an old pair of forks and a couple of pointers and a digital calliper. Tension gauge was bought second hand from aircraft industry.
Where is the generator? - is a FAQ in all the comments. Well, a dynamo, which they are building in that wheel, is an electric generator. But, you will be disappointed when you try to turn that wheel with the axle in your hands! It is g e n e r a t i n g a lot of resistance - also at daylight ... - and your wheel will stop turning very soon. It is a brake on your bike. Then look out for a road racing bike of someone and give it's wheel a turn. You will see.
cantitoe road i know that this vid is old but, what kind of out put dose it have ?(volts or watts). i would like to run a 12v light system, both front and back as well as turn singles (sp?) would there be enough power??
No information about the price of the generator hub (US$150) or the wheel (US$400); but, if you didn't want to add the expense of a 6-volt battery to power your bicycle's headlight and taillight, I'd guess that this is a solution to your problem. Then, too, this generator wouldn't store any power. If your bicycle isn't moving, no power, and, thus, no headlight and no taillight, unless one adds a 6-volt battery. I'm not certain as to why anyone wants to spend $150 just to charge up a 6-volt battery while riding their bicycle, if it's only to power up the headlight and taillight. This looks like a lot of expense and work for what a rechargeable battery pack could do.
Kevin Engele+ yes that would be a great idea however he's not building a wheel for a turbine, he's building a wheel for a bicycle, it's a dynamo hub, it generates electricity when your rolling down the road to power lights & such, so to install a dynamo hub your rim needs to be dismantled removing your standard hub and then rebuilt using the dynamo generator hub
Before buying this stuff, take a look here: www.cyclingabout.com/best-dynamo-usb-chargers-bicycle-touring-bikepacking/ Excerpt: -------------------------------------------------- "Example One: 2.5-Watts (12.5km/h on the Cinq Plug5 Plus) Once a 3-watt dynamo hub has been converted from AC to DC the output will translate to roughly 5V and 0.5A, which for an hour of riding is 500mAh. Charging a 5000mAh battery will, therefore, equate to 10 hours of riding. However, when we factor in the small losses in the charging circuitry, we lose around 20% of the total generated power. Adding the 20% extra ride time (10 hours + (10 hours x 0.2)) and we’re looking at 12 hours of riding to fill the battery from scratch. Example Two: 4-Watts (17km/h on the Cinq Plug5 Plus) If we use fancy circuitry to boost the output power to 4-watts (5V and 0.8A), we can fill a 5000mAh battery in 6.25 hours of riding. When we account for the ~20% losses in the charging circuitry, this results in 7.5 hours of riding to theoretically fill the battery from scratch." ------------------------------------------------- This was not as good as i was expecting, so i will definitely have to do some "circus tricks" and use a GPS that uses AA batteries (which i can get almost anywhere. Phones drains a LOT more power), and a camera that uses AA batteries. That way i can leave my phone turned off most of the time. I would think a 15-20watt solar panel will be better alternative for me (both options would be ideal, but the dynohub seems a bit complicated and expensive). I will mostly just use my phone to upload a few pictures to FB, so i will mostly "need" power to watch some videos on my smart-glasses (a 7000mah battery bank would last about 8 hours of video time, if i take into account the 20% power loss, like in the example above)... Im guessing a 15-20W solar panel should have me covered, and if it is not fully enough, it will not be something important i need it for anyway...
A more accurate title would be "How to install a dynamo hub that you bought from us". These misleading titles on YT are almost as bad as being Rick-Rolled.
I never knew or understood until now that people could build or replace parts of a wheel. I always had thrown away my bicycle wheel when it went bad and I end up buying a whole new wheel with the free wheel (freewheel) or cassette as well. Now I know that four basic components of a bicycle wheel (Rim, Spokes & Nipples, Hub and Freewheel or Cassette) can be replace rather than discarding the whole wheel. :) Excellent explanatory & demonstration video! Thank you for posting this excellent explanatory & demonstration video! :)
? Do U also discard your car when a tire goes flat?
probably the best tutorial video of building a wheel....thank you
Best straight to the point Wheel Building tutorial on UA-cam hands down! Thanks.
Thanks, great video and easy to understand. I like the fast forward and the stopping and showing close moments. Now this looks so easy ... let´s do it myself :) Thank you for the effort of putting this together.
VERY GOOD VIDEO
The hub used here IS the generator guys !!! The generator is in the hub, you will notice a power plug coming out of it.
When you buy this type of generator, you have no choice but to rebuild your wheel from the spokes to the rims !!!!
This video also applies to building a wheel from a regular hub (non-generator) !!!!!
a very good overview of building a wheel! you should add some relevant tags, so people can find it.
You need to change the title of your video, to avoid more negative comments.
Still a very usefull video !!
Since a slight off centre, will create friction , loss in Energy!
its exactly what i was looking for. people are just dumb.
video very informative, behind our bikes of any kind there is much craftsmanship. 10+
Haha! The comments here are amazing! The world is full of such bright people! Personally I was expecting you to build a nuclear power plant inside a bicycle wheel, and was a little disappointed that you didn't. Was it because plutonium is hard to find? But anyway, since I am also installing a generator hub in my bike wheel, it was a very useful video! Thanks!
IT CAN GENERATE 1.21 JIGGAWATTS, MARTY!
Well done! Clarifies the mystery of spoke weaving! Thanks!
man that is so tedious probably gonna eat 1 whole day time just to install n tensioning the spokes not to mention centering but all in all this is the only tutorial ive found so far so thnx for this
messed up at first did a lot of adjusting till i get it right this stuff hard to master and yes took me a whole day finishing one wheelset its friggin insane
This was great. I was looking at power generating hubs but had no idea if I had to buy a new wheel with one pre-installed or if I could add it to my existing wheel. This vid allowed me to understand hub replacement and boosted my confidence to attempt it myself.
How about doing one for a conversion to an internal gear rear hub (+ whatever is needed overall) ?
Hi Dan, There's so much going on inside an internally geared rear hub (see Sheldon Brown's excellent explanation: sheldonbrown.com/internal-gears.html) that there's simply no room for all the mechanical components involved in a dynamo hub. Best to leave power transmission to the rear hub and electricity generation to the front.
I think Dan might have meant converting a derailleur bike to an internally geared hub. The process of building the wheel is the same, Dan. Converting the bike introduces more variables. Shimano gear hubs require a few additional small parts which are included with some models but not others. I think all Sturmey hubs come with their small parts. Then of course you'll need a cable and a shifter, and you'll need to route the shift cable. Routing may require some creativity if the frame was made with a derailleur in mind.
Thank you kindly~!
Thanks for demystifying how it should be build
Chris look pretty nervous, poor guy.. nice work this is going into the files : )
too bad guys, I was glued to my monitor, learned a great deal, just until that last scene :)
You use a tool, to check the tension of the spokes, what exactly is that? Does it have a measuring dial, or what exactly and how exactly do you check the tension? do you have a link to the manufacturer of that device?
Thank you for excellent explanation
very interesting idea. A frictionless upgrade over the old fashioned fork bike generators.
Thank you very much for the practical info.Do you know,the bike is a very important part of my life,I ride it 5 to 6 hours a day,sometimes I ride it even in my dreams.
The only thing that makes me really afraid and worried of death is;-Am I going to find a good bike there in that other world to ride it 6 hours a day or not?If not,well,that would be a real hell to me.
The Tension Turbine Inc can be googled. The Tension Turbine is patented. A 24 inch turbine will produce no more than about 15 watts. A 525 foot Tension Turbine will power a small city.
Didn't you lace your key (first) trailing spoke into the spoke hole on the lower (opposite) side of the rim? That seems to be the opposite of what I read from Sheldon Brown.
Could you do a video on how to lace a rear wheel 4 cross pattern 36 spoke?
How much power do you get and have you thought about making a wind turbine out of one?
Great for DIY project !
What I'd really like to see is how to build a regular old bike wheel. Maybe they could use a generator hub...
Will this thing produce enough power to charge the batteries on an electric bike? For $400 I want to do more than just have a light on the front of my bike.
Lovely, thank you for the detailed process
very good concept to increasing electricity power.
good lacing video. why 32 spokes and not 36 , wouldn't 36 be stronger ?
Depends on what u want. U can just get different types ´, that´s all. But the work is the same...
I think the biggest problem here is , how to connect the wire from the generator hub to the parts of bicycle lights or other things...? Do you have any other videos..? thanks.!
I am planning to use my bike soon enough for delivery with Doordash and Uber Eats. I might want a generator bike wheel to recharge my battery packs. My bike was bought at $675 in 2014 and has none of it. I'd like to upgrade my bike to recharge battery packs that I mount on the back of it. Because it will keep my phone charged and my vape batteries charged.
My nitecore charger for my 18650 batteries needs 9V, and most dynohubs only generate 6V... If you vape at 150 watts and 1 set of batteries is not enough for a work day, then just bring an extra set of batteries to work. I vape the Aegis Legend (like i saw you had in a video), and it lasts me the entire day when i vape at 64 watts.
If you bring a pod to work (i have the "smoant pasito" rebuildable pod, and it is actually pretty decent), then you can charge it with a regular battery bank, and if you have one with 2 outputs, you can charge your phone and pod simultaneously...
What is the voltage out put and amps from this generator ? I'm curious befor one would attempt this project
Simple stuff,don't know why people think there is some sort of black magic to it? Maybe it's because of people tensioning the spokes by ear and matching the tone when pinged? Always built my own. My jig is an old pair of forks and a couple of pointers and a digital calliper. Tension gauge was bought second hand from aircraft industry.
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Do you show a dynamo hub with disk??? What about centerring the hub of the wheel???
I have a rim that goes up and down I got the high out but I can't get the low out it's driving me nuts.
I want full details for my project
Very informative. Thanks!
THANKS CHRIS
Good job.
Thank for the good video and explanation. Спасибо!
Where is the generator? - is a FAQ in all the comments.
Well, a dynamo, which they are building in that wheel, is an electric generator.
But, you will be disappointed when you try to turn that wheel with the axle in your hands! It is g e n e r a t i n g a lot of resistance - also at daylight ... - and your wheel will stop turning very soon. It is a brake on your bike. Then look out for a road racing bike of someone and give it's wheel a turn. You will see.
cantitoe road i know that this vid is old but, what kind of out put dose it have ?(volts or watts). i would like to run a 12v light system, both front and back as well as turn singles (sp?) would there be enough power??
The spokesman has spoken.
That would take me a week
Excellent
Where do you hook up the wiring !? no info..................
You should explain how the generator works. This really didn't answer my questions. It's not clear that this is a generator.
Nice help
where is the generator?????
+Abdul Halim 8its the silver hub. look up bike hub motors.
No information about the price of the generator hub (US$150) or the wheel (US$400); but, if you didn't want to add the expense of a 6-volt battery to power your bicycle's headlight and taillight, I'd guess that this is a solution to your problem. Then, too, this generator wouldn't store any power. If your bicycle isn't moving, no power, and, thus, no headlight and no taillight, unless one adds a 6-volt battery.
I'm not certain as to why anyone wants to spend $150 just to charge up a 6-volt battery while riding their bicycle, if it's only to power up the headlight and taillight. This looks like a lot of expense and work for what a rechargeable battery pack could do.
Where may I get a pre assembled dynamo wheel?
How many volts it produce
nice experiments
we would like some blacksmithing
thank you.
You're saying "quarter turn increments" but you are actually doing almost half turns (!?!)
How do you connect the power cables / wire to the hub? Do you solder it?
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How many holes in that rim?
Sir i have one doubt
Couldn't you have built a better wind rotor with a radial spoke lacing pattern? Then every 2 spokes could have been a turbine blade. Just a thought.
Kevin Engele+ yes that would be a great idea however he's not building a wheel for a turbine, he's building a wheel for a bicycle, it's a dynamo hub, it generates electricity when your rolling down the road to power lights & such, so to install a dynamo hub your rim needs to be dismantled removing your standard hub and then rebuilt using the dynamo generator hub
You have to say it's a bicycle repair project. It is not an electrical generator.
Exact plans and step by step instructions on Avasva.
That's pretty cool
Charge your cell phone and run a light at night
Ok.. "you build a wheel with a generator in the middle" (Nothing specialy really) Now... how you control when you use that energy that it generates?
谢谢你的视频。
The hub is the generator.......
Before buying this stuff, take a look here: www.cyclingabout.com/best-dynamo-usb-chargers-bicycle-touring-bikepacking/
Excerpt:
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"Example One: 2.5-Watts (12.5km/h on the Cinq Plug5 Plus)
Once a 3-watt dynamo hub has been converted from AC to DC the output will translate to roughly 5V and 0.5A, which for an hour of riding is 500mAh. Charging a 5000mAh battery will, therefore, equate to 10 hours of riding. However, when we factor in the small losses in the charging circuitry, we lose around 20% of the total generated power. Adding the 20% extra ride time (10 hours + (10 hours x 0.2)) and we’re looking at 12 hours of riding to fill the battery from scratch.
Example Two: 4-Watts (17km/h on the Cinq Plug5 Plus)
If we use fancy circuitry to boost the output power to 4-watts (5V and 0.8A), we can fill a 5000mAh battery in 6.25 hours of riding. When we account for the ~20% losses in the charging circuitry, this results in 7.5 hours of riding to theoretically fill the battery from scratch."
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This was not as good as i was expecting, so i will definitely have to do some "circus tricks" and use a GPS that uses AA batteries (which i can get almost anywhere. Phones drains a LOT more power), and a camera that uses AA batteries. That way i can leave my phone turned off most of the time.
I would think a 15-20watt solar panel will be better alternative for me (both options would be ideal, but the dynohub seems a bit complicated and expensive). I will mostly just use my phone to upload a few pictures to FB, so i will mostly "need" power to watch some videos on my smart-glasses (a 7000mah battery bank would last about 8 hours of video time, if i take into account the 20% power loss, like in the example above)... Im guessing a 15-20W solar panel should have me covered, and if it is not fully enough, it will not be something important i need it for anyway...
Whenever he spoke, it was about spokes
Merci
A more accurate title would be "How to install a dynamo hub that you bought from us". These misleading titles on YT are almost as bad as being Rick-Rolled.
Wear safety glasses always.
Shit happens... when you least expect it.
nice dud
3 Joule = 0.000833333 Watt hour. Not exactly useful is it?
anmd im usually strippingg wheels apart.
What is that crab?
wheel building
are these 2 people mad?
Just grab an old bike wheel and go to some other video that shows you how to attach it to a generator. THIS VIDEO DOES NOT
allways to the right? right. make that with Ryde Rims and you will be very wrong
Thank u that’ll be $80
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thought I was going to see a DIY generator build not just lace a hub that happened to be a generator.
pfft
no good wasting my time only
where is the freaking generator...thanks for wasting my time with a false title!!thumbs down...
Vega-Expert dont watch wasted dude
Haste Gedacht the silver thingy
+Vega-Expert The generator is the hub in the middle of the wheel...This is what powers your head lights, tail lights, etc.
+Vega-Expert I agree with you. this video should be named how to buy a generator or so, not how to do it
+CantitoeRoad Well then you.... didn't actually build it now did you?
Should rename it to "lacing a rim"
I see nothing wrong with this video or the title... Educate yourself on what a dynamo/generator hub is before opening you trolling mouths.
what is this CRAB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fake title. Poorly made video. Lacks detail to support video title.
wrong title...
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What ? Where is the windmill generator ? Please change the title! 👎🏼
Ha your not making a wind milll
i c no generator...
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The hub is the generator... AKA dynamo hub.
FAKE! Is not a generator
Sorry I take mine a bike shop their much faster!
No good thing
Where's the generator? Waste time and concentration
son of a bitch.
how to generator a lot of wasted time