Solar Grass Cutter With Linear Blades by Using Scotch Yoke Mechanism
Solar Grass Cutter With Linear Blades by Using Scotch Yoke Mechanism
Solar Grass Cutter With Linear Blades by Using Scotch Yoke Mechanism
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Solar Grass Cutter With Linear Blades By Using Scotch Yoke Mechanism
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ABSTRACT
A Solar grass cutter is a machine that uses sliding blades to cut a lawn at an even length. Even more
sophisticated devices are there in every field. Power consumption becomes essential for future. Solar grass
cutter is a very useful device which is very simple in construction. It is used to maintain and upkeep lawns in
gardens, schools, college’s etc. We have made some changes in the existing machine to make its application
easier at reduced cost. Our main aim in pollution control is attained through this. Unskilled operation can
operate easily and maintain the lawn very fine and uniform surface look. In our project, ―Solar grass cutter‖ is
used to cut the different grasses for the different application.
Keywords: scotch yoke mechanism, linear blades,
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Table1: COMPARISION
Sl. No SOLAR SYSTEM FUEL SYSTEM
1 Totally free from pollution Pollution is a great factor
2 No fuel consumption Fuel is the important need
3 No. of reciprocating parts are less No. of reciprocating parts are more
4 Friction is greatly reduced Frictions between the parts are high.
5 Low cast and maintenance Maintenance is difficult & costly
6 Load carrying capacity is low Load carrying capacity is high
7 Continuous ride for hours together is not Continuous ride is possible
possible
8 Ratio of speed reduction more when Speed reduction ratio is less and it does not vary
weight increases very much
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Solar panels free electrons with higher energies than the created
Batteries there must be an electric field to induce these higher
Brush less DC motor energy electrons to flow out of the semi-conductor to
Solar charger do useful work. A junction of materials, which have
Mechanism used different electrical properties, provides the electric
Circuit breaker field in most solar cells for the photon interaction in a
Blades semiconductor.
This are explained below one by one A solar cell consists of
Semi –conductor in which electron hole pairs
1.3.1SOLAR PANEL: are created by the absorption of incident solar
1.3.1.1Photovoltaic principles: radiation.
The photo- voltaic effect can be observed in Region containing a drift field for charge
nature in a variety of materials that have shown that separation.
the best performance in sunlight is the Charge collecting front and back electrodes.
semiconductors as stated above. When photons from
the sun are absorbed in a semiconductor, that create
1.3.1.2 Photovoltaic effect the n-type material through the conductor to the p-
The photo-voltaic effect can be described easily type material as shown in the figure. Here the free
for p-n junction in a semi-conductor. In an intrinsic electrons will enter the holes and become bound
semi-conductor such as silicon, each one of the four electrons thus both free electrons and holes will be
valence electrons of the material atom is tied in a removed. The flow of electrons through the external
chemical bond, and there are no free electrons at conductor constitutes an electric current, which will
absolute zero. If a piece of such a material is doped continue as long as move free electrons and holes are
on one side by a five valance electron material, such being formed by the solar radiation. This is the basis
as arsenic or phosphorus, there will be an excess of of photo-voltaic conversion that is the conversion of
electrons in that side, becoming an n-type semi- solar energy into electrical energy. The combination
conductor. of n-type and p-type semiconductors thus constitutes
The excess electrons will be practically free to a photo-voltaic cell or solar cell. All such cells some
move in the semi-conductor lattice. When a three rate direct current that can be converted into
valance electron material, such as boron dopes the alternating current it desired.
other side of the same piece, there will be deficiency The photo-voltaic effect can be observed in
of electrons leading to a p-type semi-conductor. This almost any junction of material that have different
deficiency is expressed in terms of excess of holes electrical characteristics, but the best performance to
free to move in the lattice. Such a piece of semi- date has been from cells using semiconductor
conductor with one side of the p-type and the other, material especially all of the solar cells used for both
of the n-type is called p-n junction. In this junction space and terrestrial applications have been made of
after the protons are absorbed, the free electrons of the semiconductor silicon. Future cells may use such
the n-side will tends to flow to the p-side, and the materials as the semiconductors like Gallium
holes of the p-side will tend to flow to the n-region to arsenate, copper sulphate cad sulphide etc. The
compensate for their respective deficiencies. This device used to utilize the photovoltaic effect is
diffusion will create an electric field from the n- solar cell.
region to the p-region. This field will increase until it
reaches equilibrium for voltage, the sum of the
diffusion potentials for holes and electrons. If
electrical contacts the connected through an external
electrical conductor, the free electrons will flow from
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1.3.1.3 SPECFICATIONS: less than one kilowatt. Batteries seem to be the only
Array size : 67×60cm technically and economically available storage
Maximum Power : 50W means. Since both the photo- voltaic system and
Maximum Voltage : 12V batteries are high in capital costs, it is necessary that
Maximum Current : 2.9A the overall system be optimized with respect to
No of modules :1 available energy and local demand pattern. To be
Type : Poly crystalline economically attractive the storage of solar electricity
requires a battery with following particular
1.3.2 BATTERY: combination of properties:
The batteries are used as a storage device for (1) Low cost
solar energy which can be further converted into (2) Long life
electrical energy. The only exceptions are isolated (3) High reliability
sunshine load such as irrigation pumps or drinking (4) High overall efficiency
water supplies for storage, for small units with output
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1.3.3.1 Theory of DC motor speed control: down and heat up, and you will just get an average
The speed controller works by varying the glow of 50 Watts. This is how lamp dimmers work,
average voltage sent to the motor. It could do this by and the same principle is used by speed controllers to
simply adjusting the voltage sent to the motor, but drive a motor. When the switch is closed, the motor
this is quite inefficient to do. A better way is to sees 12 Volts, and when it is open it sees 0 Volts. If
switch the motor's supply on and off very quickly. If the switch is open for the same amount of time as it is
the switching is fast enough, the motor doesn't notice closed, the motor will see an average of 6 Volts, and
it, it only notices the average effect. will run more slowly accordingly.
When we watch a film in the cinema, or the As the amount of time that the voltage is time that it
television, what you are actually seeing is a series of is off, the average speed of the motor increases.
fixed pictures, which change rapidly enough that This on-off switching is performed by power
your eyes just see the average effect - movement. MOSFETs. A MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-
Your brain fills in the gaps to give an average effect. Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) is a device
Now imagine a light bulb with a switch. When you that can turn very large currents on and off under the
close the switch, the bulb goes on and is at full control of a low signal level voltage.
brightness, say 100 Watts. When you open the switch The time that it takes a motor to speed up and slow
it goes off (0 Watts). Now if you close the switch for down under switching conditions is dependent on the
a fraction of a second, and then open it for the same inertia of the rotor (basically how heavy it is), and
amount of time, the filament won't have time to cool how much friction and load torque there is.
The graph below shows the speed of a motor that is being turned on and off fairly slowly:
We can see that the average speed is around 150, The regulator sits between the array of panels, the
although it varies quite a bit. If the supply voltage is batteries, and the equipment or loads.
switched fast enough, it won’t have time to change By monitoring the voltage of battery, the
speed much, and the speed will be quite steady. This regulator prevents overcharging or over discharging.
is the principle of switch mode speed control. Thus Regulators used in solar applications should be
the speed is set by PWM – Pulse Width Modulation. connected in series: they disconnect the array of
panels from the battery to avoid overcharging, and
1.3.4 SOLAR CHARGER: they disconnect the battery from the load to avoid
The power charge regulator is also known as over discharging. The connection and disconnection
charge controller, voltage regulator, charge-discharge is done by means of switches which can be of two
controller or charge-discharge and load controller. types: electromechanical (relays) or solid state
(bipolar transistor).
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Solar chargers should never be connected in parallel. In order to protect the battery from gasification, the
switch opens the charging circuit when the voltage in the battery reaches its high voltage disconnects (HVD) or
cut-off set point.
The low voltage disconnects (LVD) prevents the battery from over discharging by disconnecting the load.
The most modern regulators are also able to automatically disconnect the panels during the night to avoid
discharging of the battery. They can also periodically overcharge the battery to improve their life, and they may
use a mechanism known as pulse width modulation (PWM).
Solar charger has three light indicators. The first light blinks when the batteries are charging by using solar
energy. The second light glows when the charging in the batteries is very low. The third light glows when the
batteries are fully charged and an extra load (charging) is applied on the batteries.
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The Scotch yoke (also known as slotted link mechanism) is a reciprocating motion mechanism,
converting the linear motion of a slider into rotational motion or vice versa. The piston or other reciprocating
part is directly coupled to a sliding yoke with a slot that engages a pin on the rotating part. The shape of the
motion of the piston is a pure sin wave over time given a constant rotational speed.
2.1 Applications:
This setup is most commonly used in control valve actuators in high pressure oil and gas pipelines. Although not
a common metalworking machine nowadays, crude shapers can use a Scotch yoke. Almost all those use a
Whitworth linkage, which gives a slow speed forward cutting stroke and a faster return. It has been used in
various internal combustion engines, such as the Bourke engine and many hot air engines and steam engines.
The term scotch yoke continues to be used when the slot in the yoke is shorter than the diameter of the circle
made by the crank pin. For example, the side rods of a locomotive may have scotch yokes to permit vertical
motion of intermediate driving axles.
2.2 Circuit breaker:
A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical
circuit from damage caused by overload or short circuit. Its basic function is to detect a fault condition and
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interrupt current flow. Unlike a fuse, which operates once and then must be replaced, a circuit breaker can be
reset (either manually or automatically) to resume normal operation. Circuit breakers are made in varying sizes,
from small devices that protect an individual household appliance up to large switch gear designed to
protect high voltage circuits feeding an entire city.
2.3 Blades:
A blade is that portion of a tool, weapon, or machine with an edge that is designed to cut and/or puncture, stab,
slash, chop, slice, thrust, or scrape surfaces or materials. A blade may be made from a flaking stone, such
as flint, metal (usually steel), ceramic, or other material.
Here we used two blades i.e fixed blade and sliding blade
2.3.1 Fixed blade:-the blade which has no motion is called Fixed blade. This fixed blade is welded to the frame
.And this is placed below the sliding blade.
2.3.2 Sliding blade:-This blade slide over the moving blade .This blade is connect to wheel and this is
connected to DC motor.
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CONVERTER
Solar battery load load
BATTERIES
O O O O O O O O DC
MOTOR
SWITCH
S
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Then
2πNT
P=
60
2∗π∗800 ∗T
300=
60
18000=2*π*800*T
T=3.58N-m
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P=V*I
=12*29
=348W
N=600 RPM
Then
2πNT
P=
60
2∗π∗600 ∗T
348=
60
20880=2*π*600*T
T=5.53 N-m
OBTAINING RESULTS
Torque with No Load Conditions =3.58N-M
Torque with Load Conditions =5.53 N-M
4.1 ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS
ADVANTAGES:
Compact size and portable
Easy to move from one place to another place
Operating principle is simple.
Non-skilled person also operate this machine
LIMITATIONS
Large time required to remove the grass
Manually operated
Difficult to operate in rainy seasons
APPLICATION
For cricket ground.
The football ground.
All garden
All Playground
2 DC motor 1 3000
3 Batteries 4 3600
5 Materials 8 2000
a. Square pipe=3
a. L angular =2
a. Flat plate=3
a. Mechanical switch = 1
b. Wires = 5 Meters
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c. Connections pins = 12
7 Expenses 1 600
Total 34 15000