Re: Hub Dynamos - How do they do that?

On Sun, 27 May 2007 23:23:32 +0100 someone who may be John Halliwell
<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote this:-

What's inside the hub

Much the same as in any dynamo, magnets and coils.

and what happens when you switch it off?

There is no external circuit for the electricity to pass along and
so it doesn't.


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