Re: For those who believe in electricity

Am 08.04.2025 um 22:12 schrieb sms:

On 4/7/2025 5:15 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Not going below 0V is the most common way PWM is used.  However, it's
not mandatory or the only way:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation>
Note that the waveform shown goes below 0V.

Yeah, that is true, it's possible for PWM to go below zero, but that's not the way it's normally used for LED light dimming or PWM fan speed control.
 With LED bicycle lights, it's surprising that no bicycle light company has a dynamo input into their battery powered lights. Even at only 3W from the dynamo, you could power a high-end bicycle light at lower power, and you could be charging the battery during daytime rides when all you have on is the daytime running light.

"No" is a not quite correct, "extremely rare" would describe the market better.
<https://nabendynamo.de/produkte/scheinwerfer/ladelux/>
Slightly more common: a "dynamo driven power supply" produces power to a USE output, and theoretially you can route that USB power into your bikt light but with no fine-tuned optimization the output is too low to make it worthwhile in any sense.