I like to tinker as it is called, turning one thing into another, or improving it, or adding on to it; have been this way all my life.
Now that I am semi retired and medically disabled, I have extra time, really too much extra time; boy I never in my life I’d say that.
My question is this: If I were to take a 10 speed bike, disconnect the front brake cable and remove the brake pads but leave the caliper assembly where it is. Then attach magnets on the rim area that the brake pads use to touch, about ½” apart from each other with the positive end on the magnets facing out all the way around the rim on both sides; then place a coil of wire on each of the two areas that held the brake pads and adjust them close to the magnets, and began to ride the bike, would it generate D.C. electric current; and if I alternated the magnets on the rim one positive, then one negative, would it be generating A.C. current?
I do under the principal of how electricity is generated, and what basically what A/C & D/C is, but I had stated, would it be a crude way to generate power? Please no long egg head detailed answers, just a simple yes or no would do. Thanks for any answer that may be provided.
Thanks Ben! LOL! The question was just to clear the fog in my head. I have something much bigger that I’ll be working on, an idea I have since I was a kid over 50 years ago but until recently and after seeing something that solved one major flaw in my device; [technical advancements and all] I didn’t pursue it but will now. What I saw open a door that was sealed shut for so many years and got the rusty gears in my head turning. Thanks again, if all works out, you’ll get a big mention.

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