Build Your Own Wind Turbine

Here is a bunch of happy wind turbine builders with their freshly made wind turbine - doesn't it look good?  First job this morning was to remove the rotors from the mould and they came out well, no problems, they just need a little cleaning up to remove some excess resin from the back of the rotors.Then we began to assemble the blades, setting them on a workbench to measure the blade tip distances. The setting out happened quite quickly and was not too tricky. After this the blade assembly was drilled through on the drill press. All three blades…

The turbine is nearly finished and ready to go. We got the blades finished today and ready to assemble tomorrow. The first thing that we did today is take the stator out of the mould and it looks great.

We got a lot of work done on the stator today and still managed to do a bit with the blades as well.Here is Eddie getting to grips with the copper wireAlan and Eddie prepare the rotor mouldPatrick and Willie soldering the statorThe blades are in various stages of of preparation, work on the back of the blades has started with just the aerofoil shape needing to be finished

Today we did lots of work with steel and got the frame started, the flat part of the backs of all three blades was done and a start made on the leading edge on one of the blades, we also made one mould for the magnet rotors.Hugh brought along his kelly kettle to show us, it had the water hot with just a couple of handfulls of ceder shavings, learn more about these kettles here We cut the axle shaft and welded it to a 10mm plate, this plate we will drill and bolt to the frame, it is then…