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Step up transformers to help increase output?

I know that a step up transformer (stabilizer) increases/decreases the voltage that is received from the main electrical lines thus allowing gadgets to work properly. Keeping this in mind will the following idea work:1.You start a motor with the help of a battery,2.The motor then turns a dynamo using a strap (connected like a chain on a bicycle) 3.The dynamo produces electricity, this electricity is sent through a step up transformer, this then increases the output of power received from the dynamo.4.This increased power is then sent to a set of plugs, where devices can be plugged in to use the increased power. One permanent plug/use will be to recharge the battery or to run the motor by using a changeover switch (battery to motor ---- output from dynamo to motor)

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.this then increases the output of power received from the dynamo. Your chain of ideas is broken here. No power increase out of nothing. Sorry, the whole thing would not work.
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The dynamo produces electricity, this electricity is sent through a step up transformer, this then increases the output of power received from the dynamo. No dice. You are violating the first law of thermodynamics. If you step up voltage, you step down current. Example. You step up 10 volts AC to 100 volts AC. If you draw 1 amp of current on the 100 volt secondary, you will draw 10 amps of current on the 10 volt primary, assuming 100% efficiency.
A Step up transformer can be used to match a load to an energy source. But if the load impedance is already lower than the source impedance then a step up transformer makes the match worse and less energy is transferred, not more. A transformer is the electrical equivalent of a mechanical gear box. It changes the ratio of force to motion which may make more of the power available to miss-matched loads but it can never do better than a 1:1 match. A impedance mismatch in either direction reduces the power transferred to the load. Any motor or dynamo wastes about half the power it recieves so if power is feed back to the source, only about a quarter of the original energy is available. Power is the product of force or voltage times current or movement, and transformers, gears or levers etc only change the ratio, aka impedance and not the product aka power.
Transformers do NOT increase power, in fact they lose power through various means. A step-up transformer will increase the voltage at the expense of the current. Ignoring losses, the power out equals the power in, so if the input is 10 volts at 10 amps (100 watts) and the output is 100 volts, the current must be 1 amp to maintain the same power. What you propose is just a variation on an old idea for perpetual motion. I remember thinking of it myself as a child. You can't get more power out of a system than the power you put in. Thanks to the losses inherent in any practical system, you always get less out. It is similar to the idea of using the hydrogen and oxygen, which gets called HHO by the scammers and the gullible, to power an engine which drives the car and the alternator that recharges the battery to drive the electrolysis.etc. Same system but with even more losses built in. Read about the Laws of Thermodynamics.

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