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Of cycling and CFL lamps

NOVEL INVENTION: The team of electrical engineering students with their innovation `Excer-Charger.'

Can an hour's exercise light up the lamps in a home? Yes, if one uses the contraption developed by a team of students of the final year B.Tech electrical engineering course at Mary Matha College of Engineering and Technology, Paliode.

What Jibi J. Kurien, A.K. Sujith, S. Harishankar and M.N. Visakh have come up with is an excer-cycle with a difference. One hour of pedalling on the machine can generate enough electricity to power all the CFL lamps in a house for three hours. In this `Excer-Charger' there is no dynamo and no alternator. Instead, the team of engineers have used a `Permanent Magnet Multiple Coil System' that converts the energy generated as a result of exercise on the machine into electricity.

According to the college authorities the team of students believes that the `Excer-Charger' has great significance in this age when power conservation has become the mantra.

The machine was developed by the team as the project for their final year of study at the college.

This is not the first time that the team has come up with an innovation. Last year they had crafted an automobile electrical tester; an instrument designed to test the efficiency of the regulator, battery, headlight and the HT coil of autorickshaws.

That is not all. According to information made available from the college, these students have also bagged jobs with Infosys during the campus placement drive held at the college this year.

G. Mahadevan

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