Need help with finding the electronic schematics

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I'm trying to find what kind of circuitry(circuit components or schematics) is used in this anemometer: http://www.nrgsystems.com/sitecore/content/Products/5966.aspx
There are a lot of details about mechanical parts but not the electronics in their website. It just says it is generating ac sine waves that's all. I want to know whats in the anemometer.

Best Answer

When you click the "Specifications" tab on that anemometer page, it specifically says

Signal type: low level AC sine wave, frequency linearly proportional to wind speed

... (more details about the output signal omitted) ...

Magnet: Indox 1, 25 mm (1 inch) diameter, 13 mm (0.5 inch) long, 4 poles

Coil: single coil, bobbin wound, 4100 turns of #40 wire, shielded for ESD protection

From those specs, it is almost certainly a fixed-coil, moving-magnet magneto -- a kind of alternator -- with the wires from the coil coming directly out. It apparently doesn't have any other "electronics" or "circuits".

It has a coil of wire, and it has a magnet spinning in the center of that coil. That's it.

They gave you details about each and every electronic part of the device -- both the coil, and the magnet. I'm a little puzzled -- Why would anyone think "they give no info about it" when their website already lists almost everything there is to know about it?

Could you give a link to a web page about something you've designed, that shows the amount of detail you think is appropriate?

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(Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alternator_1.svg ).