Vertical Wind Turbine

more details at http://berezin.com/jeff

This is my first attempt at a wind turbine. It is a lawn ornament at the moment (no power generation). I will follow this up with a video on construction details and power generation.

Notable is that this cost less than $100 in materials so far and that the largest part of this turbine is recycled materials (the PVC drums previously held Balsamic Vinegar from Italy).

Also, this was turning pretty well in a very light wind.

Axle: 3 inch PVC piping from Home Depot
Bearings: 5 inch lazy suzan from Lowes.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• vawt
• savonius
• syracuse
• cny
• ny
• wind
• windpower
• diy
• environment
• gadget
• mechanics

[HISandman]

I love it! your in a great location to take advantage of wind power! I might try your design but how do you plan on harnessing the power from this windmill?

[embeddedprogrammer]

Hisandman and myztic123, Check out my part 2 of how to make the turbine to see the power generation system.

[DominickBlack]

Why a battery daisy chain when you can do a grid tie in ? I'm thinking you just keep adding these babies in rows and then add rows ontop of rows so you get action no matter what level the wind is blowing at.....Yeah, just keep adding units tell your electric bill disaperes alltogether...

[embeddedprogrammer]

Good point. I want to try a grid tied setup eventually, but I am going to try 12 volt first. The grid tie electronics cost around a grand (USD) and I am trying to keep this accessible to those with little dollars.

[techforumz]

I made one from a plastic lawn ornement and costs nothing (made it from basically junk). I've got the output, but there isn't enough power for anything. Gets about 10-20mA, no idea about volts. I used the eject motor from an old CD-ROM drive.

[embeddedprogrammer]

Maybe you could run some LEDs?

[Hoodwinker88]

Electro magnets power up woot!

[dwc1964]

Imagine a stack of these running up the corner of a high-rise office building in any big city's downtown - with the "wind-tunnel" effect all those buildings create. How much power could be generated that way? Enough to power such a building entirely? Even to feed some back to the grid? Even if not, it'd be something, and the wind is free.

[brucecohen69]

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[scismgenie]

The bigger the coil the more resistance to the spin, due to magnetic field. So you need MORE torque for more amps.

[roadtoadie3]

i have absolutely no experience with wind turbines so should this be a good start?

What is the simplest way this can produce electricity?

[TonyToca30]

Good Job! I'll get my extension cord!

[onedayillpay]

could you have that thing turn a alternator to charge some car batteries

[HISandman]

ah yes, I did see the second part after I asked my question. The gears are nice but out of the ball park for me.. I may try something else along the lines of a belt or something.