“I pedaled and the house was lit”: a man from Dnipro made a bicycle generator himself

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According to the 79-year-old inventor, the bicycle generator helps in bad weather, when solar panels and windmills do not produce the required power.

Olexander Klymenko from Dnipro built a bicycle generator on his own, which can supply the home with electricity during power outages. A 79-year-old man told about the creation of the device in the report of “Suspilny”.

Dnipryanin noted that he had been working on the bicycle generator for the past two months. The development was done in his free time from work in the garden. Currently, the device is ready and capable of lighting the house.

“No gasoline, no wind, no sun is needed. He sat down in the room, put something on it so as not to scratch the floor, and slowly turned it. You watch some kind of movie on a tablet and spin it,” said Oleksandr Klymenko.

The man spent only three and a half thousand hryvnias on spare parts. The main challenge, he said, was finding a low-power generator that could be powered by regular bicycle pedals. He collected some spare parts from scrap metal in his own yard. He bought the chair at the local market for 500 hryvnias.

The report also says that the bicycle generator is not the only alternative source of energy in the Dnipro resident's home. Eight years ago, he built a windmill, and two years later installed solar panels, for which he developed a turning mechanism. However, due to bad weather, energy sources do not always produce the required power. Then a new development comes to the rescue.

“I pedaled for 15-20 minutes — and the house was lit for at least 3 hours. But household appliances are powered by other alternative sources,” says the inventor.