Glendora Emergency Response Communications

I came across this interesting development that seems to be the ideal EmComm power supply for field emergency use; the Pull Cord Generator (PCG). Unfortunately, it isn?’t commercially available at this time. It is one of the latest efforts to convert human energy into electrical energy. It is a pull-string dynamo that can be combined with other recent technologies (e.g. gen 3 LEDs) so that 1 minute of string pulling can provide nearly 60 minutes of LED light---and the gen 3 LEDs can produce more light than a typical kerosene lantern without the associated health and fire hazards.

If you sign up for their newsletter, you can get announcements about the upcoming commercial release of this very exciting product. http://www.potenco.com/contact-us

To see and learn more about this interesting device, check out the following links:

Introduction to the Potenco power generator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2OWEAMLKBQ&feature=related

Close-up demonstration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOQAY5u6GUc&feature=related

Photo of the PCG
http://www.potenco.com/wp-content/themes/potenco/images/home/3_smaller_on_purple.jpg


By KI6GIG

Potenco

Unfortunately the man talks too fast on the video for me to really hear what he is saying.
Looks gimmicky to me. How long does it take to break the string?

same thought

I was thinking the same thing when I first saw it...there was an earlier version that was hand cranked.

But overall, it is quite interesting to see a totally off the grid-convert human energy to electricity as the underdeveloped countries have lots of folks with cell phones yet the majority have no access to electricity.

It will be interesting to see the market pricing for this item...to see if it is truly affordable in the undeveloped rural areas.

By ki6gig