Wind power turbine homemade made in Quebec, Canada

[MrPLASTERM66]

I think that you must install the machine very tall that you can and far of the roof and trees .

[thra5herxb12s]

How does this spin fast enough. An alternator needs to be spinning at thousands of revs...

[Solar4Living]

This is A great video on how simple it is to create your own energy...

[Mrinfoone]

how do you stop the wires from getting tangled when it turns?

[indibry]

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[windturbinesinc]

It's nice that you can actually create your own wind turbine out from your creativity and skills. You're smart in doing this. With our dilemma in the high usage of electricity in the world, having wind turbines to make use the power of the wind is a brilliant idea. Wind energy is clean and free. We can simply take advantage on it as often as we want. We can enjoy free electricity through wind turbines for a long time.

[brickmason26]

the rear fin is not large enough



[thundergod989]

a quelle vitesse qu'on voit 1000W? ca commence a tourner a quelle vitesse de vent?

[techdavey1000]

Suggest that you put a hole in the tail to take a boathook. Looks a nice machine.

[grahamlocklin]

Would you share your plans?

[n0morehate]

salut :)

thats a very good idea

i never thought to use an alternator to produce electricity :)

merci

[Avataryoutuification]

btw ppl, thats 1080Watts. 12 x 90.

1080Watts/Hour isn't it?

[Jochen754]

nice :D

[tj007razor]

"DC current"

Direct Current current?

[larryllix]

@knowledgemonger You won't weasel out of this one.

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"There is no way energy can be produced by motion of magnetic poles".

is what you posted. twist and turn like a weasel but it remains intact.

[GRATZIANI2002]

..i think that's crap!.. 1000 watts!...not in best dream!

[Jpressman8]

What are you used to energize the field of the Alternator? With a car alternator you need a 12v to energize the field.

[CeleronS1]

Hi, well I don't understand how you are gearing that car alternator. Can you show that in photos?

[Thubbadubba]

@CeleronS1 " I don't understand how you are gearing that car alternator"

I have seen car engines instantly stopped when a full 12-14v was applied to the field. Knowing this, it seems to me that you can suck all of the power it can produce out of a wind-turbine, within its design rpm, using an alternator. I wonder how close to the original max field strength the neodium magnet mod can produce?

[utkua]

lose the music

[ProjetLESE]

Salut chummy, as-tu les plans de ton éolienne et la liste des composantes ? Ton éolienne, tu la branches pas directement sur un appareil électrique, tu dois sûrement stocker ton énergie dans des accumulateurs (batteries) ?

J'ai le projet de faire un générateur d'électricité à pédale, si jamais tu veux qu'on en parle, ça va me faire plaisir de discuter avec toi.

[Quadhardcore]

what i think about "that".....too much time and no friends and no other hobbies....get a life...thats what i think =)

[joe18370]

how do you make the pivot,so it turns with the wind

[Fraggle24]

Next time you go to a hardware store. Ask to have a look at a weather vein.. It's pretty much built the same way. Stick some spinning propellers on the beak of the rooster and there you have it : ) Wish I had the few extra dollars myself to play around with building one of these myself.

[ripadisc]

do you have any kind of braking system on it if the wind gets too strong ?

[Freshbott2]

They have a gearing system so that the blade wont spin any faster but it will produce more electricity. Like how in a car, the same RPM in a higher gear lets you go faster, just reversed.

[frosty883]

for the low low price of 49.99 right?

scammer.

[sidebarr7]

I got plans for one now and I would like to know more before I dive in and waste money,Geenenergy Today,,,Get back to me,,Thanks

[tripsodo]

salut ton alternateur la tu transformer en ac avant ou tu la simplement foutu apres tes hellice et sa tournais asser vite pour produire, car tout le monde dit quil faut les convertir en ac

[PsycoMaxter]

Elle a jamais été terminée, il faut éffectivement transformer le courant en AC 120v, on peut utiliser un ondulateur. Il faut également modifier l'alternateur pour produire a vitesse réduite (12 à 16 volts stabilisé)

[brown55061]

Cool looking but does it put out decent voltage? I hear car alternators need over 2300 RPMs to make significant power, UNLESS you use a pulley to double the RPMs on the alternator. Looks smurfin cool!

[pekeloco]

hey my friend, where you put the car alternator?

[GreenEngineer07]

Nice looking turbine well done!

[12only1]

Take the song down before wind up asks you or even worse

the way things are going. We all have broken laws on the computer. We hope they never do a one big round up on all the federal criminals

[Anubis1372]

not bad...now i try me to,but i am not sure to build from car alternator...i need least 900 rpm to produce energy and in my area i don't have power wind...

[makeSOLARPANEL]

homemade windmill will cost 100 bucks... i have full instruction how to build...if anybody need

[flynnz2009]

yes I would love to get the info how do I go about it

[ssargman]

Yea, i'm interested in the full instructions could you please let me know how can you send it to me?

[eloid777]

where can i get the plans...

[PsycoMaxter]

I'm sorry, there are no plans :S

[ynnadnnyl]

Do you have any video with more construction detail. If no. Are you planing on making one

[martin2029]

Je sais pas je trouve l eolienne tres jolie mais pourquoi est tu obliger de rectifier la course de l eolienne face au vent ?Sinon j ai vue que tu etais sur t a cheminer esque tu crois quel a asser de force pour absorber la force de l eolienne ? Si oui j aimerais s avoir le poids de l ensemble puisque j ai moi meme realiser une eolienne et que pour le moment elle est dans le sous-sol en attendent son mat :)) J ai une cheminer qui attends moi aussi :)

[wind4watts]

Well done, Smart project& fairing, trouble is auto jobs need 2Krpm to work their best, and if gearing up that much need lots torque + why no use a 230volt a.c.. Pmg's good make power from 230 rpm upwards easily obtainable from rotor but still a bit expensive.

I am making a 230v one now, 10:1 geared may need a huge high torque rotor though!.

[cafe8gateshead]

Great video but the singing is horrible man!

[PsycoMaxter]

I'm sorry but Youtube just blocked my video because the previous song was copyrighted.

[n4120p]

don't worry about faraday for now, think that your problem is avoiding the alternator torque load the prop blades to the point of stalling and the air separates in turbulence in the back side of the blade dramaticly loosing its pushing forward and hence the torque exerted on the shaft and power, you either control the field like bluesman says or build a variable pitch hub sorry no easy way out on this one, wind should almost stop behind prop, if wind blows by blades stalled check that. Ernest

[makeSOLARPANEL]

I have built 2 wind generator in 2006, each 1.5 kw, each cost me $110 to build in 2006 - i love them... I got full instruction how to make homemade wind power generator - if anyone interested......

[desertblbuesman]

car alternators could be used if geared up and field controlled by prop RPM as opposed to battery voltage which on a geared system will act as a multi purchase break and stop the machine in lower winds, but if the field was controlled by the RPM of the prop utilizing a tachometer, with this new regulator just giving the field enough voltage to keep the blades turning well, it would always give maximum output for given wind. Or so my theory goes :-)

[wind4watts]

Yes that makes a lot of sense, to keep power flowing but avoid stalling/ overloading it.

[wind4watts]

desertblbuesman Your theoretical idea is spot on similar to my own idea!, my experiments show that that is also workable.

[Thubbadubba]

@desertblbuesman "and field controlled by prop RPM as opposed to battery voltage"

Bet you could use a 555 timer in a PWM (pulse-width modulation) circuit to control the field excitation, pulse-width controled by rpm, several ways to generate a voltage proportional to prop rpm I think. If using a permanent magnet alt, maybe you could truncate the power-output sine-wave like a light dimmer switch does and be keyed to rpm. If needed, one could use a tiny control computer to taylor the response.

[collinsmetro]

wow what a piece of sh-t

[georgelfe]

Who are you and why do you say that and that way?

[Earth4Energy]

Looks great.

[kode1303]

Did you calculate/measure any effect - how many watts does it support?

[collinsmetro]

Was this a cub scout project? Certainly a man didnt make this thing.

[katchupoy01]

also try to look for windblue. they have low rpm and high rpm models. and they have the complete kits too with tlg blades.

[DANYPATAGON]

i am talking about ALTERNATORS!!, not permanent magnet wind-chargers...

[DANYPATAGON]

Did you get enought power to charge a battery, at low RPM conditions?, less than 350 RPM...

[DANYPATAGON]

Do you design an special regulator to manage field-current in order to not consume energy during wind stop???

[RaOpNa777]

cool renovable energy!!!

i´m interesting on that!!!

you rocks!!!

[StealthModeLondon]

Would anybody be able to tell what the advantages are in building my own alternator/dynamo compared to using a car alternator - The convenience of using a car alternator appeals greatly, Thanks.

[DANYPATAGON]

Hello, alternators are more much realible than dynamos, because rotor are much simpler and robust. But alternators have problems to charge bateries at low speed (RPM) conditions, below 300 RPM.

[StealthModeLondon]

Thanks Danypatagon

[googlespasten]

you dont know much about electronics / physics, do you? :-). A low RPM-number would be pretty easy to compensate via smaller, µC-controlled integrated circuits with tiny batteries.

[DANYPATAGON]

Yes of course, but try to charge a 50AmpHour Bat, and then let me know if you could do it. Unless you do a DC-DC converter to elevate voltaje you can not charge any respectable battery at low RPM. (Faraday Law!!!)

[googlespasten]

the faraday law has nothing to do with low currents nor the applied OHM´s law ;-)

"Unless you do (...)" -- You just disproved your own words ... great job. Nobody cares about the development-difficulty which may occur with certain circumstances like a low RPM-number, fact is: it is possible to charge a battery like this, it only will use a greater amount of time to do so.

[netsinan]

PsycoMaxter, this is very good project. I though beforehand like this project, depentend little different. If i accomplish that, i can share with you.

[collinsmetro]

Think of all the coal miners your gonna put out of work?

[slovakmath]

they are all rednecks, they would rather stay at home and play banjo anyways

[jwelsh793]

Could u do the same with water power? Making a watermill with an alternator off a small stream or river???

[PsycoMaxter]

yes

[slovakmath]

have you heard of hydroelectric power?

[slovakmath]

take that windmill down or i'll bomb that shit

[PsycoMaxter]

I'm waiting your visit

[adcomamps]

i cooed turn you in for that. i like them windmills.

[slovakmath]

it was joke

[adcomamps]

whats a joke

[slovakmath]

noun 1 a statement made or short story told in order to cause amusement. 2 a trick played for fun. 3 informal a ridiculously inadequate or inappropriate thing.

[jeep92wrangler]

get the bugs worked out, make it more cosmetically appealing, and I'll buy one.

[kenjohan]

What I think about it? Not much, really. It gives power enough to feed your percolator.

[PsycoMaxter]

I'm not sure percolator need much power :P

[johnyskywatcher]

great stuff...think i may try to build one.

[PsycoMaxter]

material : 200$ approximatly

alternator : recycled :D

[Genocide5052]

Im making one but i'm building an alternator, waiting on the magnets from Ebay!!!!! Good Video...

[cwoodups]

imaging one on every telephone pole

[guimbadriver]

hey its cool project. i like it.....

[Georgieporgie1]

it looks nice, but it can use lots of improvements

[PsycoMaxter]

You got it :P

[jasonrj8992]

so it's basically just to chop up birds?

[PsycoMaxter]

That's power nothing :( We don't finished that project but it's perfect to generate power for a little chalet. Generally that's work with battery 12 volts and the turbine is perfect to recharge.

[jasonrj8992]

wouldn't an ALTERNATOR generate AC (as in alternating current)

what does it power?

[boogyboo79]

Yes it does but a car alternator has a built in circuit that rectifies the AC to DC. Though a car alternator isn't a good thing to use cause it's designed to spin at a few thousand RPMs which you will almost never get that just off a set of blades without gearing it up several times.

[Thubbadubba]

There is a youtube video on replacing the rotor windings with a couple of large neodium magnets. One thing it does is enhance the efficiency of the setup in marginal wind. It takes several amps to charge the rotor in a stock car alternator.

If you run the alternator at higher voltage you may want to replace the existing rectifier with a setup with better diodes. Looks like a simple job. Some folks say that the stock diodes can only handle Peak Inverse Voltages of ~35v.

GeoB

[PsycoMaxter]

Dunno, my brother get his alternator from an old car. And piece was made at the school :P

[ranyerebrc]

Price turbine? US$?

[PsycoMaxter]

Sa fait partie de la politique du 20$ maximum par plan de patate :D

[Hyunk4th]

Entk, t'as pas mis tout ton budget dans la post production! :D

[raynor1212]

je pense que tu tenuyais pis tu voulais t'entrainer a faire de la post production :P