Wind fan charger / Wan Afifi Wan Zain, Tengku Muhammad Izzat Tengku Mahmood and Wan Muhammad Harsiff Wan Zin

• Main Authors: Wan Zain, Wan Afifi, Tengku Mahmood, Tengku Muhammad Izzat, Wan Zin, Wan Muhammad Harsiff
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Energy consumption; Renewable energy sources; Electric controllers. Rheostats. Regulators. Starters; Devices for production of electricity by direct energy conversion
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/61747/1/61747.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/61747/

Wind Fan Charger is a project that uses a concept of generating electricity that is harvested from standing fan rotation. It ultilizes natural sourse from wind energy to operate. When the fan is turned on, wind energy will rotate four blades of motor generator that are converted to an electrical energy. The motor generator produces 12 to 15 volts. The output voltages is designed for three applications; arduino input, DC voltage supply and AC voltage supply. The arduino is used to in order to display an input voltage and percentage charging progress. In order to charge gadjet like smartphone, the user can choose both option either to connect to USB port that provide DC voltage or directly plug in to AC sourse. The advantage of this project is to prevent energy waste if someone forgets to switch off the fan. Besides, it helps to reduce the electricity consumption due to charging process which uses the reusable energy from wind.