How I Built A Wind Turbine
How I Built A Wind Turbine
Read how a wind turbine was built for under US$150
wind | educationHere is the story of how Mike Davis, an astronomer in Arizona, designed and built his own
wind turbine generator spending less than US$150 and utlilising some scrap parts and items he already had.
His location is very remote and so there was no grid electricity available. With a bit of ingenuity and technical know-how he managed to put together a
wind turbine generator to charge a 12 Volt
leisure battery and give him power to run his laptop computer, shaver, to charge AA batteries etc.
Rather than trying to build his own alternator / generator, he chose to use a 30 Volt DC
Ametek PM motor purchased for just $26 from eBay (
eBay UK,
eBay USA). Such a motor can easily put out a couple of hundred watts when used as a generator.
Just the cost of the
magnets for a home made 200+ Watt alternator would have cost far in excess of $26, and it is also far cheaper than purchasing a ready made
permanent magnet alternator, so using such a motor is a great way to get started generating electricity from the wind.
His
turbine blades were home made from 6 inch PVC pipe. Again,
PVC wind turbine blades are the quickest and cheapest way to get started. He made them 24 inches long giving an overall
wind turbine diameter of over four feet.
He gives full details of the electronics he used to make his own DIY
controller. Read the full article by clicking the link below:
How I Home-Built an Electricity Producing Wind Turbine
"It was easy. You can do it too".
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