Self-Running Bedini Bike!

[Elliot Gain]

Thank you for your thoughtful reply.  Yes I figure it will just be slightly more efficient and I will just keep making improvements to it.  It is a pedal assist bike so that will help.  I was thinking of attaching the magnets with gorilla glue to the rubber of the tire where it meets with the rim, dont know how well they would stay on I guess Ill find out. 
Any more comments are appreciated..
Like I said I am still working on just winding the coil and getting the Bedini circuit working, I will keep you all posted.

[Paul-R]

The essence of the Bedini SG/SSG is that it finds its own optimum speed. It is a generator which
charges batteries with radiant energy, rather than a motor.

The batteries to be charged may not deliver current whilst they are receiving it.

[Cloxxki]

I love bikes, and making them easier to pedal!

Your bike would not be pedal-assisted, unless you'd top off the (huge) batteries before leaving home on it. They would be empty when you return from a good ride I'm afraid, although the Bedini gospel implies differently.
It would be most interesting to learn if direct drive using the leverage of the outer wheel as you propose, would improse efficiency over hub-mounted engines. Open versus closed, perhaps?
In any case, and this is from a bike nut, use the rear wheel if you're going to use anything heavy. I bike with a lightweight front, feels lighter to right, more agile. Most, but not all, people are into that.

In extreme cases such as long rides with tail wind (storm) you might switch between braking on the engine, and using it to get even more speed. If you plan to overcome a big hill, better not have an empty battery and a super heavy bike before you reach summit :-)
Oh, my advise to use rear wheel drie doesn't fly if the torque you manage to crete gets out of hand. Or, you'd need to place the rear wheel way aft. Else, uncontrollable wheelies :-)

Good luck! I'd love to hear of your progress. It may well be real progress for the bicycle industry, and real money is made there, by some. A buddy of mine is product manager to one of those, and has eBikes in his portfolio.

Regards,
J

[Elliot Gain]

Just would like to reiterate that I AM NOT trying to make the bike tires into the motor, the bicycle already has a motor, not the hub type but attached with a short chain to the back tire.  What I am doing is turning the bike tires into generators to charge the a battery on the back, while using another battery to run the motor, when the power battery dies, I can switch out the batteries and start charging that one, this I am hoping would make the batteries last longer.  Now I am wondering what the best way to use the spinning wheels to generate power would be without adding to much an extra load on the motor (and me pedaling) so I figured from my research that the bedini circuit (let alone if it can self-run or not) is the best at capturing energy from spinning magnets, so can anyone who understands the bedini circuit or who knows of a good circuit to use in capturing current from passing magnets, LET ME KNOW THANKS!

[nightlife]

  You would double the torque if you use both poles of the coils. Keep that in mind when designing. Otherwise the unused pole is wasted. You can not have one pole without having the opposite and one pole can not be any stronger and or any weaker then the other. They are equal and both must be utilised to acquire the best results.