"HerHusband" wrote in message
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Alvin,
I live near an Amish community. They are required to use lights on
their horse drawn buggies at night. They use 12V marine batteries
which last about 7 to 10 hours. Then they have the non-Amish
neighbors charge them, or use a gas generator. I was talking to one
of them and he said he would like to connect a car alternator to the
wheels.
I don't know much about the Amish, but I thought the idea was to avoid
modern technology? Couldn't they use lanterns as was done before
electrical
lights were available?
Otherwise, I'd start with a switch to more efficient lighting so the
battery lasts longer.
I don't know if they still make them, but once upon a time you could get
lights for bicycles that were powered by a little generator that ran on
the
top of the bike tire. Seems like it would be easy to adapt to a buggy.
Otherwise, maybe you could install a small gas powered generator? A hybrid
buggy?
But it seems like it's getting away from the Amish ideals to me?
Anthony
I donno. Why don't you go to Amish.com and ask them.
http://www.amish.com/
Jim
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Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?