@steadfast
I just blew yet another $50 at lowes on black pipe... 
God... I am sooooo sick of throwing money at this thing.... 
Been there done that, lol, the funny thing is you don't have to spend all that money because you do have options, this is your machine not theirs. I know many people like to "follow" but I was never that way, I put my 1kw turbine on a 15' freestanding ABS tower which is all wrong, I wired my PM generator wrong and the flux paths of the magnets wasn't right because it wasn't the way everyone else does it. I made my own blades out of the wrong materials and people would say they would never last --- but they have and my turbine which all the self proclaimed experts here would agree is all wrong still makes it's 1Kw in every 20mph wind which comes around.
I think there is a great deal of satisfaction when one creates something unique with their own two hands. I have worked in a 260Mw power plant and laid my head against a 10,000 HP gas turbine at full power and listened, I have laid my hands on an AC generator the size of your house and felt it's awe inspiring power but there is no satisfaction in this it is simply a machine. Yet every single time I hear the familiar woop-woop-woop of my hand built, home made, originally designed wind turbines I feel good. They may not be the best or the most efficient or just like the ones everyone else builds but their mine, I built them and they generate power as well as anything else.
As well I have spent years studying the works of the greatest men in electrodynamics, Faraday, Ampere, hertz, Maxwell, Tesla, Steinmetz, Einstein and Feynman. I have built countless generators of every kind and one would think I have forgotten more than most here will ever know and yet I am still completely awestruck every single time a magnet moves past a simple coil and it lights up a simple LED. I would suggest to the experts here that if they do not still get this feeling they are doing something wrong, they have lost something along the way and suggest they find it. Any fool can repeat what they have read or seen and it is no more difficult to understand than when a monkey hits a big red button and receives a peanut for their effort however it is not so easy for a man to stand on his own two feet and think for themselves. To follow a dream nobody believes, to create something original and unique and state this is mine, I built this with these two hands and it is like nothing else. I do not think we need more sheep, we have plenty, we need more wolves.
“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.†-- Albert Einstein
I'm not usually one to give advice but if I did I would say do your research, research every aspect of what you need to know, then ignore it and do your own thing. The research is simply information or knowledge but it is not understanding and when you do understand in a context which applies directly to you in your own way then you will have no need for books or advice from others.
Regards
