Flashlight Project: need some help please.

[jerrymrc]

You should be able to put your multimeter across the battery terminals and see what it's milliamps are, right? I'd suggest winding for 60 seconds, check the mah across the terminals, write that down, repeat until the you're close to 900?

It's been a long time since I've done electronics though.

Reading Ma needs to be in series. If you disconnect the + from the battery then insert the meter with the lead's inserted in the Ma holes and it set to Ma. + lead on the meter goes to the +lead coming from the generator and the - lead goes to the battery.

Like this.