Well I'm starting my first serious wind project, I few weeks ago in here in PA we had a two day power outage, While I didn't really need electricity for most things. It did make writting a research paper for class the next day interseting, sat in my jeep, with a 200watt power inverter almost all night.
As for the turbine I'm planning on building two turbines using three PVC blades a large on cut from a section of 12inch dia. PVC pipe Im going to heat the leading edge and form the PVC around a pipe to form a better airfoil then I was going to wrap it in fiberglass I was going to use 6 foot blades on this one. On the smaller turbine I not going to use 8" PVC with the standard cut. I have a 30' tower I can use with the large one the smaller I'll have to figure something out. For batteries I have two 130ah deep cycles and a homemade charge controller that I used with my solar panel.
Now for the hard part, the generator I've got a collection of motors on my work bench but I have two in mind a 120volt dc pm motor from a lawn mower with a flick of the shaft I can light a flash light bulb, but when I hook up a 12v tail light bulb it gets very hard to turn if I short the leads it gets almost impossible to turn. I remember seeing this was a good thing but that might be for EVcars.
The second motor is a 24v dc pm from a electric scooter I used it for another project before and damaged the windings so Im going to rewind it problem is how, currently it has 28 turns of #21 wire on each coil was planning on going to 45-55turns of #26. Another motor I'm thinking of is a geared motor from a power wheel chair it produces 10volts at 20 rpm at the wheel with a 30:1 gear box it mean 600 motor rpm but it takes a huge amount of torqe to turn it would need a alot of blades.
So any hints or suggestions?
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