1. Product Brief Introduction
Big Pendulum is a classic large-scale extreme thrilling amusement ride and the iconic core project of major amusement parks worldwide. As a top-tier thrill equipment integrating high-altitude swinging and high-speed rotation, it is famous for its huge swing amplitude, strong weightlessness impact and shocking visual momentum. Different from ordinary single swing rides, the big pendulum combines super-large arc reciprocating swing and 360-degree cabin autorotation, bringing tourists continuous alternating feelings of overweight and weightlessness. With extremely high on-site attraction, strong passenger gathering ability and unforgettable extreme entertainment experience, it is the must-have signature project for large and medium-sized theme parks, adventure amusement areas and cultural tourism parks, greatly improving the overall grade and popularity of the venue.
Core Technical Parameters: The standard big pendulum covers an area of 18.5m×15m with a total equipment height of 15 meters. It is equipped with 24 seats for high-efficiency passenger flow turnover. The rated power is 50kW with 380V industrial voltage. The maximum swing angle can reach 120 degrees, and the cabin supports 360° free rotation. A single operation cycle is 180-240 seconds. The whole machine adopts heavy-duty integral steel structure with a total weight of about 30 tons, featuring strong wind resistance, stable operation and ultra-high safety factor. It is suitable for tourists above 1.4 meters in height, targeting young people and extreme thrill seekers.
2. Product Operation Principle
The Big Pendulum adopts mature and reliable hydraulic power drive and frequency conversion linkage control system, composed of heavy-duty fixed base, main support arm, large swing arm, rotary cabin, hydraulic power unit and intelligent PLC program control system. In the initial stage of operation, the frequency conversion system starts slowly and stably without jitter. The hydraulic power system pushes the swing arm to perform low-amplitude reciprocating swinging movement. As the power increases, the swing amplitude gradually rises until reaching the set maximum swing angle.
During the high-altitude swinging process, the passenger cabin independently rotates 360° at a uniform speed. The superposition of large-angle arc swinging and high-speed cabin rotation creates irregular multi-dimensional extreme movements. Tourists will experience strong weightlessness, soaring and diving thrills at high altitude, realizing the ultimate adventure experience of flying against the wind. The whole operation process is intelligently programmed, supporting free switching of gentle mode and extreme thrilling mode. The equipment adopts slow start and slow stop design, with smooth acceleration and deceleration process. After the operation ends, it automatically resets to the horizontal static state to ensure safe and orderly boarding and alighting.
3. Product Material Details
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Heavy-Duty Main Steel Structure: The base, support arm and swing arm are all made of high-strength Q345B carbon steel. The thickened integral welding base effectively lowers the center of gravity and improves overall stability and wind resistance. All key load-bearing welding joints adopt full penetration welding process and pass professional ultrasonic flaw detection to eliminate welding cracks and structural hidden dangers. The overall steel structure undergoes multi-layer anti-corrosion treatment including sandblasting rust removal, anti-rust primer and outdoor weather-resistant topcoat. It has excellent anti-ultraviolet, rainproof and high-temperature aging resistance, with an outdoor service life of more than 15 years.
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Cabin & FRP Decorative Parts: The passenger cabin and all decorative coverings are made of high-density thickened FRP fiberglass material, which is environmentally friendly, non-toxic, impact-resistant, crack-resistant and deformation-free. The surface adopts automobile-grade high-temperature baking paint and fine hand-painted technology, with bright color, strong three-dimensional sense and long-term color fastness without fading. The cabin interior adopts ergonomic integrated arc seat design, with smooth and comfortable riding posture, effectively fitting the body pressure changes during high-altitude swinging and rotation.
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Professional Safety Protection Accessories: Each seat is equipped with a pneumatic automatic locking safety pressure bar and high-strength five-point safety belt to form a dual safety protection system. The safety belt is made of high-tensile polyester fiber material, with super bearing capacity, wear resistance and anti-aging performance. All mechanical connection nodes adopt Grade 8.8 hot-dip galvanized anti-loosening bolts. The rotating bearings are high-precision industrial-grade wear-resistant parts, ensuring flexible and stable operation after long-term high-frequency swinging and rotation.
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Driving & Electrical System: The core hydraulic unit, motor and reducer adopt brand industrial-grade configurations, with stable power output, low noise and no oil leakage. The electrical system reaches IP55 waterproof and dustproof grade, equipped with national standard flame-retardant leakage-proof cables and fully sealed waterproof electrical box, which can adapt to outdoor rain, snow, strong light and high-temperature harsh environments. The intelligent PLC linkage control system has sensitive response and precise program control, supporting long-term uninterrupted commercial operation.
4. Suitable Application Scenarios
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Large & Medium-Sized Amusement Theme Parks: As the core flagship thrilling project in the park’s extreme adventure area, it matches roller coasters, speed windmills and pirate ships to build a complete high-thrill amusement cluster. Its huge momentum and super visual impact can attract a large number of young tourist groups and become the representative landmark project of the park.
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Scenic Spots & Cultural Tourism Resorts: Suitable for large scenic amusement squares and high-end resort entertainment areas. As a high-standard internet celebrity thrilling project, it breaks the single sightseeing mode of scenic spots, greatly enriches the entertainment system, improves the overall playability and tourist attraction of the scenic spot, and extends tourists’ staying time.
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Urban Tourist Parks & Comprehensive Leisure Parks: It serves as a high-grade supporting amusement project for urban key parks, filling the gap of extreme thrilling projects in urban public entertainment facilities, meeting the personalized entertainment needs of young groups, and upgrading the overall construction grade of urban parks.
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Large Commercial Tourism Complexes: It can be placed in outdoor commercial squares and tourist leisure blocks as a core popular passenger-gathering project to activate commercial atmosphere, drive pedestrian flow and secondary consumption, and enhance the comprehensive operating value of commercial venues.
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Global Overseas Amusement Projects: The equipment complies with international amusement safety standards and can provide CE, TUV and other international certification documents. It is widely exported to Europe, America, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Africa and other regions, and is very popular in overseas large-scale professional amusement parks and carnival venues.
5. Design & Shape Features
The Big Pendulum adopts grand and atmospheric industrial dynamic design style, with strong mechanical sense and visual impact. The overall structure is stable and symmetrical, with a heavy-duty solid base, tall support arm and oversized swing arm, presenting a powerful and steady mechanical aesthetic. The circular rotary cabin is neatly structured with smooth lines, and the huge swing range forms a shocking aerial arc track during operation, which can instantly attract the attention of on-site tourists.
The product supports personalized full-theme customization. It can be designed into cool technology style, fashionable carnival style, classic industrial style and other mainstream styles. The equipment surface can be sprayed with exclusive customized colors, printed with park LOGO and creative pattern elements. The overall appearance is magnificent and highly recognizable, with strong photography and check-in attributes. It can quickly become the visual focus and iconic landmark project of the amusement venue, greatly enhancing the overall grade and competitiveness of the park.
6. Lighting & Sound System
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Full-Coverage Dynamic LED Lighting System: The whole machine is equipped with high-brightness RGB full-color professional amusement lights. The support arm, swing arm and cabin edge are fully wrapped with high-density flowing light strips. The lighting system supports multiple dynamic effects such as steady brightness, gradient color conversion, rhythmic flashing and synchronous flowing. During night operation, the high-altitude swinging and rotating equipment drives the lights to form gorgeous and changing huge arc light tracks. The shocking night light and shadow effect greatly upgrades the park’s night tour atmosphere, attracts a large number of night tourists, and improves the venue’s night operating income.
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Immersive Thrilling Sound System: Equipped with high-fidelity surround stereo speakers, built-in passionate dynamic background music, wind breaking simulation sound effects and thrilling adventure sound effects. The sound rhythm is intelligently linked with the swing amplitude and rotating speed of the equipment. The music rhythm rises and falls synchronously with the high and low swing of the pendulum, perfectly fitting the extreme flying and diving experience. The volume is clear, layered and adjustable without noise distortion. It also supports customized exclusive music and multi-language broadcast prompts, bringing tourists strong immersive extreme adventure feeling.
7. Quality Assurance
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Standardized Qualification Production: The equipment is strictly manufactured in accordance with national GB 8408-2018 amusement equipment safety standards and TSG 71-2023 special equipment safety specifications. The manufacturer holds complete special equipment production and installation qualifications. All products are equipped with official factory certificates, material inspection reports and type test reports, which can smoothly pass government annual inspection and international third-party safety certification.
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Full-Process Strict Quality Control: All steel raw materials, FRP materials, hydraulic components and electrical accessories are strictly sampled and inspected before warehousing. Every process including welding, assembly, polishing, painting and electrical wiring is checked layer by layer. Before delivery, the equipment undergoes 72 hours of continuous no-load and full-load linkage operation test. All mechanical movements, lighting sound effects and safety protection functions are fully debugged to ensure stable performance and zero hidden dangers before delivery.
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Multi-Layer Safety Redundancy Design: Equipped with hydraulic anti-fall protection, power-off emergency stop system, overload protection, swing angle limit protection, speed limit protection and anti-collision buffer device. In case of sudden power failure, abnormal operation or equipment failure, the system will automatically lock the swing arm and cabin to stop safely, ensuring the absolute safety of passengers. All safety components pass repeated fatigue tests to adapt to long-term high-intensity commercial operation.
8. After-Sales Guarantee
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One-Stop Global Full-Cycle Service: Provide free pre-sales venue survey, site layout planning and foundation construction drawing guidance. Support global door-to-door installation, commissioning and professional operator training. Provide complete English and Chinese operation manuals, daily maintenance tutorials and installation videos to ensure customers can independently operate and maintain the equipment.
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Long-Term Official Warranty: The whole machine enjoys 3-year free warranty service, and core components such as hydraulic system, motor, reducer and swing arm transmission structure are guaranteed for 5 years. During the warranty period, all non-human damaged parts are replaced free of charge with zero maintenance cost for customers.
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24-Hour Rapid Response Mechanism: Professional overseas after-sales technical team provides 24-hour online technical support. Simple equipment faults can be solved by remote guidance within 2 hours; for complex on-site faults, professional engineers can arrive at the site within 48 hours for maintenance, effectively reducing equipment downtime and operating losses.
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Adequate Original Spare Parts Supply: The factory has sufficient stock of original wearing parts including LED lights, speakers, safety belts, hydraulic accessories and connecting bolts. All spare parts can be delivered quickly within 48 hours, and a set of free wearing parts is provided when leaving the factory to ensure long-term stable operation of the equipment.
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Value-Added Customized Operation Service: Provide free later-stage equipment theme upgrading, color repainting, lighting system optimization and performance debugging. Provide professional venue operation plans and passenger flow attraction strategies to help customers improve equipment popularity and maximize long-term operating profits.
9. Product Summary
Big Pendulum is a large-scale high-thrill, high-appearance and high-value core amusement equipment. With its shocking large-angle swinging, 360° rotating compound movement, gorgeous night lighting effects and rigorous multi-layer safety protection system, it has become the ultimate favorite of extreme amusement lovers. The equipment has stable operation, strong weather resistance, large passenger capacity and low later maintenance cost, with ultra-high market recognition and return on investment. It is the best landmark upgrading project for major amusement parks, scenic spots and cultural tourism venues, and a high-quality hot-selling product for global amusement equipment investment and procurement.
