Homemade 12v Generator from Weed Eater

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  • Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
  • Just showing a homemade 12v Generator I built from a Weed Eater and a 12v automotive blower fan motor, it can charge batteries, power most 12v automotive accessories used in your cigarette lighter. I built the unit about 7 years ago it was an easy and fun built and the cost was nothing.

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  • @2587scott
    @2587scott 21 день тому

    Thank you for showing the world how to be resourceful. This video is incredibly inspiring. Thank you, Brother.

  • @scottmosher8038
    @scottmosher8038 Рік тому

    So you have a very good understanding of alternators and power that despite my trying to learn i cant figure allot out.
    Ive seen your homemade generator and its goes very well with what ive been trying to do. Ive been trying to rack my brain around how to run multiple alternators but instead of a gas powered engine i was trying to find a way to eother hook up a solar panel to a 12v permanent magnet motor to spin the multiple alternators at once. Hoping to generate more power from the nominal power source of the 12v solar or even a battery that i can use to turn multiple alternators and power a shed im trying to do wood working in.

  • @rickkrockstar
    @rickkrockstar 4 роки тому +1

    After watching this video, I made my own, I added a voltage regulator and inverter with a very quiet muffler silencer. It's super compact for camping. Thanks for the idea.👍

    • @kristianperryadams
      @kristianperryadams 4 роки тому

      But is it quiet enough? I've just got a broke shaft strimmer and was looking into making one of these mini generators from it but 25cc engines are notoriously annoying

    • @rickkrockstar
      @rickkrockstar 4 роки тому

      @@kristianperryadams with a good muffler and a box , it's slightly quieter than a trimmer.

  • @Qui-9
    @Qui-9 4 роки тому

    People, if you can't find an electronics hobby/supply store, order a high current rectifier online, or pull one from an old alternator output and check if its still good.
    Or just use an alternator to generate the power.

  • @leamyelectricinc1
    @leamyelectricinc1 9 років тому

    Nice job. Way to think outside the box.

  • @superalvacado
    @superalvacado 12 років тому

    Are you wearing plaid by chance? Maybe red and green suspenders? Love your generator, but kept expecting you to get set on fire or electrocuted. Reminded me of Red Green Show's invention clips. (That is a compliment by the way)

  • @KeystoneMotorsports
    @KeystoneMotorsports 11 років тому +2

    I had one of those Weedeaters, found it on the side of the road in somebodies trash. Got it running, worked great for about 4 hours then died. Ended up back in the trash.

  • @Bantax69
    @Bantax69 12 років тому

    Very cool! What type of diode did you use to make the current one way?

  • @mountain177
    @mountain177 12 років тому +1

    i got a question, How id you link the weed eater to the blower motor?

  • @hershhoney3443
    @hershhoney3443 8 років тому +2

    what size diode did you use

  • @g0fvt
    @g0fvt 11 років тому

    A handy little generator

  • @RockerGuy0001
    @RockerGuy0001 9 років тому +1

    That's pretty cool. Surprised it can power a 100w bulb

  • @savagenomore
    @savagenomore 12 років тому

    any info on how to wire this up, I have all the stuff but the diode, what type of diode did you use..thanks

  • @claud120
    @claud120 11 років тому +2

    Output voltage is DC,how do you control voltage when you charge a battery?

    • @Fetherko
      @Fetherko 6 років тому

      I think he turns the "idle speed screw" of the engine. A car battery should be charged at fourteen volts, but I think you could go higher voltage.

    • @Qui-9
      @Qui-9 4 роки тому

      That's a good question. The voltage would have to be set by the screw as per the comment above, but in case anything in the engine changes, too high of a voltage will damage the battery and even be hazardous because of hydrogen emission, and too low of a voltage will cause damage by sulfation over time. There would best be a voltage regulator or charge controller after setting the speed higher than in this video.

  • @hotshotharry01
    @hotshotharry01 12 років тому

    How many amps can you get out I this little gen charging a 12v battery?

  • @fairyheli2
    @fairyheli2 11 років тому +1

    In America you're lucky, everyone there seems to own gas powered tools and equipment. in England the only thing you can find in a bin or dumped is electric mowers and electric weedeaters, which are good for nothing once dead.

    • @2587scott
      @2587scott 21 день тому

      Wind turbine from the motors.

  • @thomashardin911
    @thomashardin911 12 років тому +1

    what is the amperage of the generator?

  • @terry-yz1wc
    @terry-yz1wc 10 років тому

    im looking to build one of these, out of an gas troy built weed eater. can you name the parts needed to build it?

    • @terry-yz1wc
      @terry-yz1wc 10 років тому

      but using an altinaitor instead of sooling fan motor

  • @JoseMorales-up2rp
    @JoseMorales-up2rp 5 років тому

    Can sell to me the Generator I need to my low ride car to change the battery when my car is no tuning . Thanks

  • @richarddowner4292
    @richarddowner4292 11 років тому

    that is funny.... and that is a great idea, i have all them items. I must make the same thing just to keep in the trunk as a jumper pack haha. nice video. I subscribed. thanks....

  • @RK-nl1hn
    @RK-nl1hn 4 роки тому

    Can j have the specs from the diode?

  • @coolio8444
    @coolio8444 12 років тому

    from up north eh?

  • @TheEdiphone
    @TheEdiphone 8 років тому +3

    I love your videos for the ease of absorption of info and thorough explanations of design and operation any ideas on taking gen head from 800 watt clone/h.f. portable genset and either belt or turbine configurations as stand alone design and the issue I have is motor input shaft has that bearing needed and input stub needed for belt or any type of power transference as well as armatures position at that end now the challenge is no machine fab tools welder ect.i need the macguiver dildo to jackhammer lock pickin tool building wizard that I know you are to help me figure out a simple effective way to salvage my alcohol fuel murdered generators e85 and me smoked 4 less than 50 hrs between all and I'm trying to get some use and scavenge the heads reconfigure input to belt or compound gear set to turbine? and really I respect and am humbly grateful for your shared efforts and opinions and please any and all neg and positive input or methods of this and how could I take two matching heads head to head pully in the center and separate/combine their out puts?polarity switch one to compensate rotation reversal? this in design eliminates need for bearings with just a keyed shaft and pully at the their positions can it be done? what are the variables and methods of safely testing and operating these ive been hit by 480 220 and 110 the 110 grabs on to you the others blew me off so I really don't want to wire it wrong or combine that circuit if its not able to do and I trust your knowledge of electrical design and fab skills and sadly its a mountain man type vanishing art style or method of living you are graced to have the ability to do and its a sad bad loss of creative effort and beautiful minds achievements never to be seen cause the materials/components of which these efforts and achievements where and are made are outlawed condemned and unsaved without the past there isn't a future and you are one of the few who seem to know and create in that modality

  • @MIAH700
    @MIAH700 9 років тому

    That is bad ass!

  • @phantomcharger
    @phantomcharger 12 років тому

    very nice

  • @smallenginedude71
    @smallenginedude71 11 років тому

    Very nice I am gonna make one

  • @richarddowner4292
    @richarddowner4292 11 років тому

    its a cheap and for me i have all the parts.... free... most of all GREAT IDEA....

  • @leerose7607
    @leerose7607 10 років тому +1

    I'm not sure. But it looks like the diode is backwards.

    • @JaredHaer
      @JaredHaer 10 років тому

      What makes you think the diodes are backwards?

    • @leerose7607
      @leerose7607 10 років тому

      Just the one I can see. The silvery line should be on the other end of the diode.

    • @JaredHaer
      @JaredHaer 10 років тому +1

      If it was backwards then this wouldn't work, right? Also I did not see a circuit diagram so I am not 100% on exactly how they implemented this. What type of circuit do they use to convert the motor to a generator?

    • @leerose7607
      @leerose7607 10 років тому

      A blocking diode is used when charging batteries. It stops the flow of power only one way. I think what he had done is to put the diode on the negative wire.

    • @JaredHaer
      @JaredHaer 10 років тому +2

      I would need to know what circuit their are using and see a diagram of the circuit and know what color wires he was using for what. Again if it is backwards it wouldn't work at all.

  • @deepnarayandubey2702
    @deepnarayandubey2702 6 років тому

    Nice bhi

  • @slick5066
    @slick5066 12 років тому

    U run that to piss off the neighbours?

  • @shantelleadeline6053
    @shantelleadeline6053 6 років тому

    With Avasva plans doing something like that was easy.

  • @9102jack
    @9102jack 11 років тому

    it would only charge 6v batteries then...

  • @be.ndover
    @be.ndover 8 років тому

    now make it run off of steam

  • @raynald32
    @raynald32 11 років тому

    Fairy'that's pretty shitty man cause its fun to tinker with gas engines

  • @ytugtbk
    @ytugtbk 11 років тому

    Sad.

  • @cumminsbayou
    @cumminsbayou 12 років тому

    so could you take apart an old battery charger and find one in there

  • @cumminsbayou
    @cumminsbayou 12 років тому

    where do you get the 1 wat diode for it

  • @selador11
    @selador11 11 років тому +1

    Where do you get the diode?

  • @bobbydog65
    @bobbydog65 11 років тому

    would a 6v blower motor work?