Homebrew Wind power

It is very windy in Wellington ;-)
This thing has been up for a few years, it does about 50 watts flat out. It uses an old washing machine permanent magnet motor.

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• Wind
• power
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• green
• free
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• made
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[yokiniqu]

Hi there, we are a bit closer now - We are in West Melton. I have not put the machine up since we moved here, I'll go see if I can find it - and let you know the colour pairs.

[rimskykorzakov]

dumbest thing i've ever seen. u know man kind invented wheel? just in case u didn't know that

[yokiniqu]

Yes, our ancestors invented the wheel, obviously none were related to you.

[minimaddnz]

thanks, what did you use for the box that it is placed into?anything else you think that i will need to know?thanks again

[yokiniqu]

the box was made up of 5mm plate steel (mild steel). The frame of the Gentle Annie Motor is fairly lightly constructed. I felt I needed to brace the construction of the motor to makes it stronger. The floor of the box is 2x 50mm 5mm thick plates welded together. Pieces of 5mm angle welded end on for the corners and a bolt each side at the top running front to back. I then cut pieces of aluminum sheet to make the front back and sides. These were riveted in place.

[MaxSachs]

Yes that is kind of the machine motor I was referring to. Problem with regular washing machine motors is they need high rpms to generate good power. What kind of PM motor are you using to generate 50watts flat-out?

[transfusablepng]

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[ianvinify]

Hi, I am from Ashburton. I have a gentle annie motor , but I don't know which wire colors to join to do a star or delta connection. I hope you can help me. Cheers!

[sunnycheetah]

Looks like a speeding camera box,(hope it is one) but the thing seems to work nice so that's cool. Nice work, what did you made the blades from? i picked up some very large aluminum fans at a local scrapyard, i want to make a wind turbine with those. VERY COOL MACHINE!

[yokiniqu]

yep... how did you have the outputs wired together... star or delta connections?

[rob2180cdt]

at 1000 rpm a gentle annie motor can genatate 1 kw of power