I do know that I drive torque, while listening to my friends prattle on about horsepower.
PM motors can be tricked easily to vary output. The easiest is load resistance, you could use a circuit to control the output. Using a CVT would be interesting, considering you keep a fairly constant rpm until it maxes out at the top end.
The hybrid part would be neat but I wonder how the vee belt would like it
isn't this really not much different than what was used before alternators ? fixed magnet generators . wouldn't it be easier to go back in time and see how the various companies back then used to control voltage output , rather than try to reinvent the wheel ?
Quote from: burnt_servo on November 11, 2009, 12:41:20 pmisn't this really not much different than what was used before alternators ? fixed magnet generators . wouldn't it be easier to go back in time and see how the various companies back then used to control voltage output , rather than try to reinvent the wheel ?hmmm you might be on to something! thanks for the input edit: after some reading, the generator's use electro magnets as well to generate the magnetic field??? hmmm...