Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

Ok so now I. Get to shoe hoe green I really am. Ere I doing college again I’d SLO’s do electrical engineering along with mechanical engineering.I had lots. Of mschine shop experience so I was way ahead of the gam in automation and the aero space stuff. Th internet was just starting then so ghereere many trips to yhe library. Now it just a mttrr of looking things up with this keyboard. However.

I’m severely lacking in electrical knowledge.

An easy question I suppose. But if I drive a small stepper motor with my new steamer or another power source hat is the output, if any. Sc or dc.  I have learned so far hoe to convert he stepper to a generator  and I have the rectifiers condensers and even a breadboard with a box of electrical jumper resistors even a resistor hart and a bag full of condensers. I have. Some hook up wire. A digital ulti meter box of leads a brand new soldering iron that I do know how to use even a small butan torch for brink wrap. I usd t do trailer building and repair so lights ere a steady problem that I fixed.

Now how do I measure the output of the dynamo I have andwhat Er the steppers put out or even take to drive. I saw a video where a guy ran a generator with his steanner  calculating th output and ultimately to hp. As small as it was.  I have a source for an electric clutch/brake. So it would not be hard to make a small digital scale set up to measure torqu directly. But he did iteletrically by calculation. He seemed to just lad hhisenerator reading volts an watts or MPs gradually ing more tam until his engin almost stopped.  Anyway I need some technology help.   I can do an gearing I’ll nrpeed there is a neat gearbox option for this turbine too.   It’s neat an good looking.

 So I’ll reellyappreciate any help.

Thanks byron