Power Generation through Pedaling

It is known that the supply of fossil fuels are inadequate and their usage as energy source cause environmental degradation, besides as the world population increases the energy demand is also increasing day by day, this leads to search for new renewable energy sources. Clean and ecological friendly power is requested far and wide today. The main objective of this paper is to utilizing the human energy that is lost in pedaling, and transforms it into a useful form that is electricity. In this work a low cost pedal power generator is fabricated for pedal power generation. For this a single phase induction motor is converted to single phase 4-pole alternator by changing its parameter. The output of alternator which is AC is converted DC using the Bridge rectifier. In order to reject the harmonic components a capacitor filter is used. As an application the rectified output is used for battery charging. The paper explains in detail the method using car alternator to generate power. A detailed analysis of using pedal power is also presented.