Gungatim
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Hi all, new here but have been reading a Lot of info on lighting, but I am surprised nobody has solved this little challenge yet (despite promises). In looking at how other similar machines handle this, I noticed a few things. Cushman's from the '50's had multiple stator's on the engine, one for tail lights, one for headlights, etc. Going through my Briggs manual for modern engines, I see they just add extra pickups whenever needed, to charge a battery, another if the mower has lights, etc. Why not do the same with these little HT motors? Ordinarily it would be easy to do with a flywheel, just add another one arund it, but on these the space is pretty limited. So, if we could machine an extention to fit onto the crank, and mount another coil pickup around that with an extention between the cover and engine (maybe plywood or something) we could get a decent amount of power to run lights or charge, etc. Seems like we could get a chinese supplier to make an add-on kit for this pretty cheaply.
Any machinists on here interested in prototyping this?
Any machinists on here interested in prototyping this?