Generator by Gerard Morin

[TinselKoala]

Here is the meter Jerard is using-the modle is quite easy to see when the video is viewed in full screen.
So he is trying to measure a DC current using a meter that reads only AC current

http://www.valuetesters.com/ideal-industries-61-766-clamp-multimeter-ac-true-rms.html

It would be sad, if it wasn't so damn hilarious. Or maybe the other way around.

[citfta]

Thanks for the info about the meter.  That explains the weird readings around the inverter.  If I remember he showed less than an amp going from the battery to the inverter.  But, he showed the inverter putting out over an amp going to the motor drive.  He is using an off the shelf inverter so the current should have been at least 10 times higher coming from the battery as going to the motor drive.

[tinman]

Thanks for the info about the meter.  That explains the weird readings around the inverter.  If I remember he showed less than an amp going from the battery to the inverter.  But, he showed the inverter putting out over an amp going to the motor drive.  He is using an off the shelf inverter so the current should have been at least 10 times higher coming from the battery as going to the motor drive.

Those stator motors he is using are/or the same as the fisher and paykel smart drive motors-i have many of them,as can be seen on a few of my youtube video's. I made a pulse motor out of one one day,just to see what would happen. I could run it at 84RPM on a 6 volt battery at around 500mA. Even at that low power,it had a lot of torque. If i use the 80 series version stator,i can light a 480watt LED light bar simply by cranking it by hand,so that little 5-10 watt LED he was driving would be no problem at all. The 80 and 100 series versions of those motors are capable.

Here is a video showing the different series motors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLzHr0Qntgo

[synchro1]

Thanks for the info about the meter.  That explains the weird readings around the inverter.  If I remember he showed less than an amp going from the battery to the inverter.  But, he showed the inverter putting out over an amp going to the motor drive.  He is using an off the shelf inverter so the current should have been at least 10 times higher coming from the battery as going to the motor drive.

Ouch! 2 amps in and 10 amps out over 11 hours equals 88 amp hours from a 12 volt deep cell battery. Enough to drain it completely and leave it as dead as a door nail. No measurement offered by Morin on the final battery voltage. A lead acid battery battery can go nearly completely dead and still show a respectable voltage reading on a meter. Ten times the power is easy to misread on a display especially if your meter was manufactured in Never-Never Land like Morin's. 

[Hoppy]

Ten times the power is easy to misread on a display especially if your meter was manufactured in Never-Never Land like Morin's.

That meter does not measure power directly either.