Treadmill Motor Wind Generator Turbine Steel Banded Blades

[tjinga2u1]

got a converter you can turn that 12DC volts into 120AC and have it outlet formatted.Have it hooked to a battery you could run a PC on it (maybe)

[PleasureTV]

You might want to rewind your stator with thiner wire and more turns.You can do it yourself with little patience.

[belgrademachine]

That should be right but this wind generator only hit 12 volts in strong gusts and didn't go much over that. It seems that the treadmill motors are best geared up rather than direct drive.

[PezunaProducciones]

Try changing the motor. I got a 180 VDC 4700 RPM from an old tradmill. Thats 26 RPM to make 1 V, which is very good.

[helloman1976]

How much power is it putting out? How many amps?

[belgrademachine]

@helloman1976 It is running free with no load in the video and reached about 6 volts at one point. What you can't see is the house upwind about 8 feet away so its not a straight line wind. I did test the motor in a drill press and got the following: 4.45volts, 4.3amps @ 255rpm, 8.7volts, 9.5amps @ 500rpm and 13.75volts, 14.8 amps @ 850rpm.

[VWRabbitdiesel]

@belgrademachine 14.8 amps @ 850rpm good luck hitting 850RPM

[masyn92]

@VWRabbitdiesel

They make these things called gears, they do this wonderful thing that makes something spinning slow, spin something else multiple times faster!

Amazing, isn't it?

[VWRabbitdiesel]

@belgrademachine Nice so you have to spin that thing @600 RPM to charge?

[ripadisc]

nice job man

[belgrademachine]

@ripadisc

Thank you