I am posting a topic right now as we speak, I took some pictures of the stuff I have right now and I want to put something together. The case fan idea will have to wait until I make it to the dump to go finding some. The question is, do I have to look for DC brush case fans? Or can the brushless ones be converted to output power? The circuitry built into them apparently makes it not possible for power to be generated out of the existing leads. Any ideas bro?

Oh... so AC can power leds aswell as dc???

That makes sense. Also, that site I linked to points out two different styles of VCR motor, I assume the one with more copper coils (the good one) is probably found in older vcr's and the cheaper looking one (supposedly lots of drag at high rpm's) is probably gonna be found in cheapy, but new vcr's I also see in the dump a lot. Thanks for pointing that out, or else I would have just started grabbing a whole bunch of vcr's, that'd suck if I ended up with a whole bunch of vcr's that were completely no good. Also, I got another question lemonie. I have this 6V lead acid battery I've been storing/moving around for like 4-5 years now that my uncle left behind in my house, he owned a business for a while that sold industrial electronic parts, and also chandeliers for some reason, but nothing in between :S Anyways, I have this battery that I don't think has ever been charged or used, as the terminals were clean with no sign of being plugged in (scratching), when I had got it. But no charge in it either. How in hell do I charge one of these batteries? If I make a wind turbine out of a vcr motor, would that work? Seeing as they're supposed to put out a good 6-8v at low wind speeds (according to the website). I don't have anything I can call an electronics parts shop (as far as buying strips of capacitors, resistors, leds, let alone boxes of 5 or something like that). So the question is, where should I look for diodes to rectify the output of the vcr motor? Inside the vcr? But I hate working with clipped parts off circuit boards, so I get happy when I come across parts standing high off their PCB. What do you think Lem?

Apparently the main video head motor is supposed to just pull apart? As far as the multi pins, I guess you would just have to poke around with a multimeter while it was spinning (hold the wheel against another motor or something? As far as the battery, it's a sealed lead battery, so I doubt very much I'll be able to top it up. I wish I had an ammeter but I don't. I do have a really fancy multimeter however, will that do?