10' diameter wind turbine construction

10' diameter wind turbine construction


Homebrew 10' Wind Turbine construction




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Everything here is pretty much correct, and you can build a successful, reliable and quiet 10 foot diameter wind turbine from the free information on these pages.

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We have made numerous postings on our Discussion Board about things we do differently from this wind turbine design now, and our book Homebrew Wind Power goes into much more detail about all aspects of building wind turbines from scratch, including revisions to this page. The new blog for our book, HomebrewWind.com, is where you'll find our latest updates, thoughts, corrections of errors in the book, rants, raves, CAD drawings, videos, and random bits about building wind turbines.





This page serves as an index of pages that detail how we build a 10' diameter wind turbine. The machine is of a simple design, largely based on Hugh Piggott's designs. It features and axial flux 3 phase alternator. It should be fairly efficient in low winds (producing perhaps in the ballpark of 100 watts in low 10mph winds) and it should produce around 700 watts in winds of 25mph, at which time the machine should begin to furl. Peak power we see from this machine is about twice that (1500 watts) although I don't believe the alternator can withstand that for long. It makes for a nice, quiet low wind machine. Below are links to different stages of the project.



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Metal Work Part 1: On this page we build the main chassis for the machine.


Metal Work Part 2: On this page we fabricate the tail boom.


Coil Winder: This page details construction of the coil winder.


Stator mold: Details of the mold in which we cast the stator.


Stator: Detail of winding the coils and casting the stator.


Magnet Rotors: Building the magnet rotors.


Alternator Assembly: Assembling the alternator


Wind turbine blades: How to carve the blades


Blade assembly: How to assemble the blades


Rectifier: How to build the 3 phase rectifier


Towers: An older page with thoughts about towers and some ideas





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