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Default OT - generating electricity on a bicycle

In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
The current is reversed as it passes under a brush turning it into AC.


No Harry .. thats switched reversed polarity DC...


Well, yes. AC is generally a sine wave. Be good to see how you achieve
that with a switch. Many inverters make a pretty poor job of producing a
sine wave. ;-)

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