Does anyone know how to make a 12v fan charge a battery?
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Pretty sure you'll need some kind of alternator in there somewhere...
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Each fan motor is essentially an alternator. If you put electric current into the motor it’ll spin the axel, if you put a crank on the axel, or any other means to spin the axel that isn’t coming from the electric input, it’ll produce an electric current that goes out the same wires that are used to power the motor
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Does it have *that* much of a gain though? I know that alternators are build *explicitly* for electricity generation, but I doubt fan motors are built for a similar task.
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Radiator fan motors are more than enough to charge a phone or light or something small. I would definitely recommend that he rig a fan to an alternator though. Since it's got a pulley he could even play with ratios to increase the speed of the alt.
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