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#1360013 - 10/29/18 08:25 AM Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard [Re: derSammy]
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Hi derSammy, thanks for your reply.
Yes I agree with you, at 50 km/h is definitely much better to keep both the hands on the handlebar !!
Here below nevertheless some of my points:
A bike dynamo is a constant current source till the load is a prevalent resistive load and its value is negligible compared to the internal reactance of the dynamo; 500-600 mA is the maximum output you can get from a dynamo, even at 100 km/h on a dead short-circuit load !!
Yes I confirm: no-load voltage is something like ~1V per km/h.
A 6V-3W hub dynamo is capable of delivering 6W at 20 km/h, 10 W at 50 km/h.
Output voltage of a dynamo of course is likely to drop with load but the typical 1500 Ohm of a human body will not affect substantially this value at all.
... sometimes just a few mA can kill and that's why worldwide households electrical protection, at least against "indirect contacts", has been generally specified to be put in place through the installation of a good grounding system in combination with a 30 mA RCD-Residual Current Device.
The IEC frown plot below shows that 100 mA for 1 sec might be lethal.
Cheers

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Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard ConRAD 10/28/18 06:12 PM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard derSammy 10/28/18 09:03 PM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard ConRAD 10/29/18 08:25 AM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard derSammy 10/29/18 08:26 PM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard ConRAD 10/30/18 08:15 AM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard derSammy 10/30/18 08:44 AM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard kangaroo 10/23/19 09:50 AM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard ConRAD 02/10/20 10:57 AM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard kangaroo 05/14/20 09:43 AM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard AndreMQ 05/14/20 10:21 PM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard ConRAD 05/16/20 05:19 PM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard AndreMQ 05/16/20 07:17 PM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard ConRAD 05/20/20 07:49 PM
Re: Dynamo Voltage (possible) Hazard AndreMQ 05/21/20 05:33 AM
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