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It depends on what power you can produce and the efficiency of the equipment you use to convert that mechanical power into electrical power.

As a moderately fit 50+ cyclist, I can produce over 200 W for five or so hours, 300 W for much shorter periods, and levels around 1 kW for less than a minute.

A commonly quoted efficiency for electrical generation is 80%, but lets assume 75% efficiency to be just a little conservative.

200 W X .75 = 150 W

300 W X .75 = 225 W

If it's just for 15 minutes, we can take the higher figure. 15 minutes is .25 hours, so we have

225 W X .25 h = 56.25 Wh

So that would run a 100 W load for half an hour, provided the remaining parts of the system were 90% efficient.

A mobileMobile phone battery capacitycapacities vary. Some are advertised at over 2000 mAh, and given a voltage of 3.7 V, that's

2 Ah X 3.7 V = 7.4 Wh

On these figures that 15 minutes of pedaling would charge a mobile phone seven times.

One limitation will be the efficiency of conversion of the electrical power from one voltage to another.

It depends on what power you can produce and the efficiency of the equipment you use to convert that mechanical power into electrical power.

As a moderately fit 50+ cyclist, I can produce over 200 W for five or so hours, 300 W for much shorter periods, and levels around 1 kW for less than a minute.

A commonly quoted efficiency for electrical generation is 80%, but lets assume 75% efficiency to be just a little conservative.

200 W X .75 = 150 W

300 W X .75 = 225 W

If it's just for 15 minutes, we can take the higher figure. 15 minutes is .25 hours, so we have

225 W X .25 = 56.25 Wh

So that would run a 100 W load for half an hour, provided the remaining parts of the system were 90% efficient.

A mobile phone battery capacity vary. Some are advertised at over 2000 mAh, and given a voltage of 3.7 V, that's

2 Ah X 3.7 V = 7.4 Wh

On these figures that 15 minutes of pedaling would charge a mobile phone seven times.

One limitation will be the conversion of the electrical power from one voltage to another.

It depends on what power you can produce and the efficiency of the equipment you use to convert that mechanical power into electrical power.

As a moderately fit 50+ cyclist, I can produce over 200 W for five or so hours, 300 W for much shorter periods, and levels around 1 kW for less than a minute.

A commonly quoted efficiency for electrical generation is 80%, but lets assume 75% efficiency to be just a little conservative.

200 W X .75 = 150 W

300 W X .75 = 225 W

If it's just for 15 minutes, we can take the higher figure. 15 minutes is .25 hours, so we have

225 W X .25 h = 56.25 Wh

So that would run a 100 W load for half an hour, provided the remaining parts of the system were 90% efficient.

Mobile phone battery capacities vary. Some are advertised at over 2000 mAh, and given a voltage of 3.7 V, that's

2 Ah X 3.7 V = 7.4 Wh

On these figures that 15 minutes of pedaling would charge a mobile phone seven times.

One limitation will be the efficiency of conversion of the electrical power from one voltage to another.

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andy256
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It depends on what power you can produce and the efficiency of the equipment you use to convert that mechanical power into electrical power.

As a moderately fit 50+ cyclist, I can produce over 200 W for five or so hours, 300 W for much shorter periods, and levels around 1 kW for less than a minute.

A commonly quoted efficiency for electrical generation is 80%, but lets assume 75% efficiency to be just a little conservative.

200 W X .75 = 150 W

300 W X .75 = 225 W

If it's just for 15 minutes, we can take the higher figure. 15 minutes is .25 hours, so we have

225 W X .25 = 56.25 Wh

So that would run a 100 W load for half an hour, provided the remaining parts of the system were 90% efficient.

A mobile phone battery capacity vary. Some are advertised at over 2000 mAh, and given a voltage of 3.7 V, that's

2 Ah X 3.7 V = 7.4 Wh

On these figures that 15 minutes of pedaling would charge a mobile phone seven times.

One limitation will be the conversion of the electrical power from one voltage to another.