I think you will have trouble getting enough power out of a magnet and coil. I was curious about this, so I built a test setup. For a coil I used the coil that drives a pendulum in quartz clocks. These coils are wound from exceptionally thin wire and so have a very high number of turns. I rectified it with a common bridge, filtered it with 220 ufd, and put a load on it. I was spinning a neodymium magnet at 3,000 RPM. I had to reduce the load to 10K before I got more than 5 volts. 10K at 6 volts is just 0.6 mA. I think you'll never get to 30 mA without quite a large coil and magnet. -- Bryan Mumford Santa Barbara, California http://www.bmumford.com -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics