DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF

“ SEA SAW GENERATOR”

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 PREFACE
We take an opportunity to present this project report on
" A UNCONVENTIONAL SOURCE OF ENERGY USING GARDEN
AUTOMATION OF PLAY EQUIPMEMNT
"SEA SAW GENERATOR".
and put before readers some useful information regarding our project.
We have made sincere attempts and taken every care to present this
matter in precise and compact form, the language being as simple as
possible.
We are sure that the information contained in this volume would
certainly prove useful for better insight in the scope and dimension of
this project in its true perspective.
The task of completion of the project though being difficulty was made
quite simple, interesting and successful due to deep involvement and
complete dedication of our group members.
 CONSTRUCTION DWG
600

200 200 Pulley 60 mm

dia Generator Pulley 40 dia

Angle of
40 x 40 x
600 4.4 mm
section
Channel
of 70 x
40 x 4.4
mm 150
section
Shaft 20 Φ
diameters

450

900
 ABSTRACT:
An electricity generation system that has the ability to generate clean
electrical power by operation of the sea saw play equipment due to playing of the
children on the same. Mechanically capturing the power of pressing the strip of
the sea saw play equipment.
The system utilizes a modular unit that is mounted on a frame assembly. a
rack and pinion arrangement to convert the linear motion in to rotary motion is
used. Multiple pulleys of various diameters are mounted in a generator housing
that is journaled on an elongated dynamo-pulley axle. The generator housing is
releasable connected to a stationary retention plate to prevent rotation of the
generator housing.. When the child starts raising and lowering the sea saw strip
board, the ratcheting rack arm is pulled downwardly causing a drive spur gear to
rotate causing the pulley train incrementally upgrading the rpm from one pulley to
another and finally massive rpm across the flywheel and thus fly wheel shaft. An
electricity generator is mounted on the frame assembly and there is rotation
transmission structure connected to the power generation drive shaft of the
electricity generator. When the generator assembly has been sufficiently wound, a
ratchet gear assembly releases the spring housing assembly allowing it to rotate
freely to dissipate its stored energy and drive the electricity generator. This cycle
is repeated throughout the day to generate electricity when the garden is open to
[play and children’s are playing on the sea saw play equipment. A modified
electricity generation system utilizes the wave motion of a natural body of water
connecting the ratchet arm to a floating buoy.  
 INTRODUCTION
If a child is between the ages of five and ten they are
probably preparing for their first attempt at “children playing
generator “riding. This first attempt usually starts with our project
work and there are a few things we should consider manufacturing
it.
Go for the best “AUTOMATION OF PLAY GROUND” you
can afford with the best safety record. That doesn’t mean you have
to spend more money. Making a project that is the right height for
your child; if it is too tall and the seat is too high then your child will
tip over easily and become easily scared by the thought of trying
again. Think of child’s safety, first, and manufacture a
“AUTOMATION OF PLAY GROUND” that will fit him/her, now, not
one that they are going to grow into. Make sure that the seat is
stable along with a wide wheelbase. Look for the following features
when choosing a “AUTOMATION OF PLAY GROUND”.
 
 SEESAW

A seesaw (also known as a teeter-totter) is a long, narrow

board suspended in the middle so that, as one end goes up, the
other goes down.
In a playground setting, the board is balanced in the exact
center. A person sits on each end and they take turns pushing
their feet against the ground to lift their end into the air.
Playground seesaws usually have handles for the riders to grip
as they sit facing each other. One problem with the seesaw's
design is that if a heavier child allows herself to hit the ground
suddenly after jumping, or exits the seesaw at the bottom, the
lighter child may fall and be injured. For this reason, seesaws
are often mounted above a soft surface such as foam or wood
chips.
A sea saw deflection powered
electricity generation system
actuated by reciprocating human
forces
 REQUIREMENT

• at least one generator connected to an elongated rack-

pinion gearing, belt-pulley and fly wheel arrangement to
generator secondary winding axle having a front end, a rear end
and a longitudinally extending X-axis;
•

• Winding means for winding said at least one generator using

the reciprocating accurate rotational motion of a pinion that is
being intermittently rotated from a static position by the linear
tangential force of the rack shaft
•
an electrical generator having a power generation drive shaft;
• Transmission means for transferring stored energy that is in
said at least one generator after having been properly wound, to
said power generation drive shaft of said electricity generator to
produce electrical current; and
SEA SAW GENERATOR
 WORKING

The playing child forces and our daily routine work,

exercise games and play tricks powered electricity
generation system utilizes an electricity generation
module having an elongated ratcheting arm extending
laterally there from. The sea saw is a wooden strip
equally balanced in a line contact element at its center
point of balance. The children’s who are to play used to
sit on the exteme sides of the strip on either side of the
balancing line contact post. Irrespective of equal weight
of the playing children on the either side the child used to
elevate the strip by having jerk developed itself by the
child by raising his own weight up and down by pushing
the foot jerk on the ground. This makes the strip along
with the children to elevate on either side. More and more
elevation causes more and more fun to the riding
children.
 GENERAL PRINCIPLE

• The rotary motion of bearing shaft is magnified by

selection of proper gearing mechanism i.e. big gear rotates
smaller gear.
• This will increase speed of small gear shaft.
• By using belt & pulley arrangement rpm is again
increased.
• Also we use heavy flywheel to store energy & serve
when needed to dynamo.
• Children playing on SEA SAW GENERATOR generate a
manual rotary motion.
 Working of see-saw generator:

 • While playing, the see-saw performs the oscillating motion.

 • The connecting rod joins the end of the oscillating see-saw
with the crank.
 • The mechanism works as the crank rotates.
 • The rotating motion of the crank is transferred to the gear
mechanism by means of shaft.
 • The gear mechanism enhances the speed.
 • The gear system output is fed to the flywheel, which stores
the energy.
 This energy is supplied to the dynamo when needed.
 ABOUT OUR CREATION:
 It is electro-mechanical energy generating machine. This
machine converts reciprocating motion in to rotary motion.
The rotational power is stored in flywheel & flywheel rotates
dynamo, which generates electricity.
 Here first important point is how we get reciprocating motion,
which is prime input in the system.
 A "generator" and "motor" is essentially the same thing: what
you call it depends on whether electricity is going into the unit
or coming out of it. A generator produces electricity. In a
generator, something causes the shaft and armature to spin.
An electric current is generated, as shown in the picture
(lighting bolt).Lots of things can be used to make a shaft spin
- a pinwheel, a crank, a bicycle, a water wheel, a diesel engine,
or even a jet engine. They're of different sizes but it's the same
general idea. It doesn't matter what's used to spin the shaft -
the electricity that's produced is the same.
 Flywheel energy storage
There have been a number of experiments using
flywheel energy storage in electric vehicles. The flywheels
store energy as rotation, which is converted to electricity
via a generator, which then drives the wheel motors. It
might seem odd to convert rotational energy to electrical
energy, only to convert it back again to rotate the vehicle's
drive wheels, but in fact it is a necessary step: In order to
hold a useful amount of energy, flywheels need to spin
extremely fast, and an electric generator is usually a more
practical converter for this high speed rotational energy
than a mechanical gearing system would be.
TRANSMISSION OF SYSTEM
GENERATOR
 FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE

Flywheel Energy Storage (FES) works by accelerating a rotor to a very

high speed and maintaining the energy in the system as inertial energy.
Commercially available FES systems are used for small
uninterruptible power systems. The rotors normally operate at 4000
RPM or less and are made of metal. Advanced flywheels are made of
high strength carbon-composite filaments that spin at speeds from
20,000-100,000 RPM in a vacuum enclosure. Magnetic bearings are
necessary as speeds increase to reduce the friction present when
using conventional mechanical bearings. Quick charging is done in
less than 15 minutes. Long lifetimes of most flywheels, plus high
energy densities (~ 130 Wh/kg) and large maximum power outputs are
positive attributes. The energy efficiency (ratio of energy out per
energy in) of flywheels can be as high as 90%. Since FES can store and
release power quickly, they have found a niche providing pulsed power
 METHODOLOGY
  we selected SEA SAW power generator means the “Energy in motion when it is
suddenly applied with a sort of obstacle, then according to Newton’s law for every action
there is an equal and opposite reaction. Utilization of this reaction is the basic reason
behind the selection of this project work.”
AVAILABLE ENERGY OF THE PLAYING CHILD TO APPLY IMPACT FORCE ON THE
SEA SAW BOARD STRIPFLEXIBLE STAIR CASE STEP ALONG WITH THE TRAIN OF
GEAR AND PULLEYS AND GENERATOR SYSTEMPOWER GENERTAED IN TERMA OF
GLOWING BULB OR CHARGING BATTERY

AVAILABLE
 
FLEXIBLE STAIR POWER
ENERGY OF THE CASE STEP ALONG
PLAYING CHILD  
WITH THE TRAIN OF
GENERTAED IN
TERMA OF
TO APPLY IMPACT GEAR AND PULLEYS
FORCE ON THE AND GENERATOR GLOWING BULB
SEA SAW BOARD SYSTEM OR CHARGING
STRIP BATTERY

FIG 1: the set up flow diagram

We can install generator along with the arrangement of converting the
reciprocating motion to the rotary motion. This rotary motion is further
magnify using reciprocating motion in to rotary motion-belt & pulley drive.
The output of pulley is attached with flywheel it stored kinetic energy and
transfer to alternator which generate electricity with zero cost.
 
How can I make an electric generator from garden play
equipments? --
Generators and motors are very closely related and many
motors that contain permanent magnets can also act as
generators. If you move a permanent magnet past a coil of
wire that is part of an electric circuit, you will cause current
to flow through that coil and circuit. That's because a
changing magnetic field, such as that near a moving
magnet, is always accompanied in nature by an electric
field. While magnetic fields push on magnetic poles,
electric fields push on electric charges. With a coil of wire
near the moving magnet, the moving magnet's electric field
pushes charges through the coil and eventually through the
entire circuit.
HOW IS ELECTRICITY MEASURED?
Electricity is measured in units of power called
watts. It was named to honor James Watt, the
inventor of the steam engine. One watt is a very
small amount of power. It would require nearly
750 watts to equal one horsepower. A kilowatt
represents 1,000 watts. A kilowatt-hour (kWh) is
equal to the energy of 1,000 watts working for
one hour. The amount of electricity a power plant
generates or a customer uses over a period of
time is measured in kilowatthours (kWh).
Kilowatthours are determined by multiplying the
number of kW's required by the number of hours
of use. For example, if you use a 40-watt light
bulb 5 hours a day, you have used 200 watts of
power, or .2 kilowatthours of electrical energy
 Power transmission shafting
 Continuous mechanical power is usually transmitted along and
between rotating shafts. The transfer between shafts is
accomplished by gears, belts, chains or other similar means for
matching the torque/speed characteristics of the interconnected
shafts - eg. a car needs gears between the engine crankshaft and
drive wheel half-shafts. Matching will be examined more closely in
later chapters (Squirrel Cage Motors, V-Belt Drives, Spur Gears),
here we focus on shafts.
 Shafts rotating only at constant speed n (rev/s) are considered here,
and as shafts are usually statically determinate they may be
examined by the techniques of elementary statics. Also, since
 - Power = force ( N) ∗ linear velocity ( m/s) in translational
applications and
 - Power = torque ( Nm) ∗ angular velocity ( = 2π n rad/s) in rotational
applications,
 Pulleys-Belts to Transmit/Modify Motion
Mechanical components are used to satisfy many engineering design
functions. For example, when a mechanism includes a motor/engine for
power generation, mechanical components are used to transmit the motion
and power of the motor/engine, to other locations, to reduce speed provided
by the motor/engines, to transform the motor/engine motion to a different
form (e.g., rotary motion to oscillatory or linear motion), to actuate many
subassemblies without requiring multiple motors/engines, to change the
direction of motion, etc. In the previous section, we studied the application
of pulleys (combined with rope/cable) to lift objects. Pulleys, as lifting
devices, provide the design function of changing the direction of motion and
force. Multiple pulleys also provide mechanical advantage, even though the
friction between the pulley and rope/cable will increase as we increase the
number of pulleys.
In this subsection, we extend the use of pulleys to change the direction of
rotary motion (as opposed to linear motion to lift objects), to reduce or
increase speed, and to transmit power. To achieve these design functions, a
belt component replaces the rope or cable. The following figure illustrates
the two basic arrangements of pulleys-belts.
Motion transmission with pulleys
and belts
 COST OF ITEMS
SR NO PART NAME RATE QTY TOTAL

1 FRAME ANGEL25X25X5mm 35/ kg 30kg 1050

2 FLYWHEEL 35/ kg 35kg 1225

3 SHAFT 55/kg 16 880

4 GEAR 8/teeth 209teeth 1672

5 PULLEY ------- 2 370

6 DYNAMO 800 1 800

7 BELT ------ 2 250

8 CHANNEL 35/ kg 1 35

9 SPRING 260 1 260

10 RACK 800 1 800

11 HANDEL 35/kg 5 175

12 NUT BOLT WASHER -------- ------- 250

13 PLY ---------- 1 350

14 FREE WHEEL 100 1 100

15 WELDING ROD 5 /pcs 25 125

16 COLOUR 300/lit 0.75 lit 225

TOTAL 8567/-
RAW MATERIAL & STANDARD MATERIAL
SR NO PART NAME
1 FRAME ANGEL25X25X5mm
2 FLYWHEEL
3 SHAFT
4 GEAR
5 PULLEY
6 DYNAMO
7 BELT
8 CHANNEL
9 SPRING
10 SHEET
11 PIPE
12 NUT BOLT WASHER
13 PLY
14 FREE WHEEL
15 WELDING ROD
16 COLOUR
 APPLICATION

1) We can vary the size of the device using the various

proportions for emergency power generation big places
like industries, cleaning purpose, spray painting.
2) The generator installed power supply can be stored in
the Battery Back up system and using Invertors can
generate A.C. current thus the generation of electricity with
zeros manufacturing running cost.
3) To operate the reciprocating compressor and thus can
be called as Kino-compressor and produce high-pressure
air.
 FUTURE MODIFICATIONS:-
We can modify it to work as water lifting pump by installing the water
compressing reciprocating hydraulic pump.
1) It can be used as compressor by coupling the rack directly to the
reciprocating piston of the air cylinder and air can be used in mines to
operate the pneumatic appliances such as drills, coal cutters, motors,
generators, pumps etc.
2) Can drive compressed air motor.
3) To operate pneumatic lifts and elevators.
4) For inflating automobile wheels-tyres in the road side by repair shops.
5) In foundry for sand blasting.
6) In pneumatic tools such as hammers, drills, pile drivers, grinders,
concrete vibrator etc.
7) For starting the IC engine.
8) To produce the air blast for industrial application.
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 ELECTRICAL MACHINE DESIGN – A.K.SAWHNEY
 Donald G. Fink and H. Wayne Beaty, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers,
Eleventh Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1978, ISBN 0-07-020974-X.
 Edwin J. Houston and Arthur Kennelly, Recent Types of Dynamo-Electric Machinery,
copyright American Technical Book Company 1897, published by P.F. Collier and Sons
New York, 1902.
• Fitzgerald/Kingsley/Kusko (Fitzgerald/Kingsley/Umans in later years), *Electric
Machinery, classic text for junior and senior electrical engineering students. Originally
published in 1952, 6th edition published in 2002. Authors still listed as
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 Lessons In Electric Circuits, Volume II { AC By Tony R. Kuphaldt Fifth Edition,
last update January 10, 2004
 Lessons In Electric Circuits, Volume I { DC By Tony R. Kuphaldt
Fifth Edition, last update January 1, 2004
1) WORKSHOP TECHNOLOGY – HAZARA CHOUDHARY
2) MACHINE DESIGN – R.S. KHURMI
3) PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY – BANGA AND SHARMA
4) PRODUCTION PLANNING AND CONTROL – BANGA AND SHARMA
5) HEAT TREATMENT – P.C. SHARMA