🛠 Build A DIY Wind Turbine Tower - Plans Available 📄
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2019
- 3 kW wind turbine plans: renewablesystemstechnology.co...
Part 7 of the Reaper wind turbine series: in this video I build the tower for the new turbine. It consists of 30ft of 2.5" schedule 40 pipe, nearly 400ft of 3/16" galvanized aircraft cable attached with 3/8" turnbuckles and quick links, and four 600lb concrete ground anchors.
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3 kW wind turbine plans: renewablesystemstechnology.com/3-kw-wind-turbine.html
Awesome build James. You are a huge inspiration to anyone becoming energy self-reliant. Thank you for leading us forward.
As always another great video, Still love the fact you dont need to talk to get the point across.
And the normal speed with puppy pet, have me a good laugh.
Keep them coming I personally always enjoy
the final piece of off grid hardware strongly self built. Just awesome!
EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!
Truly Excellent!!!
And thank you for not not ruining it by putting music to it!!!
Nice job
What a lovely dog
Damn nice DIY fabrication, install AND VIDEO... KUDOS! Keep on rolling... THANKS FOR SHARING!
Well done!
At first I was like where's the snow? LoL, then I see it. Not to much accumulation. I plan on hoping to eliminate guys on my tower build and also it will be in sections to be ready to disassemble. When I sell my home. Good thinking on how to incorporate slip ring, but worried on shortage though. Good job James!!
Awesome build, I some similar stuff but like only 2.5metres up
Hey James! happy new year. nice simple tower set up. i may try a similar tower set up and leave the gin pole off when i set up the new house with all the off grid equipment. looking forward to the next video, have fun SD.
Thanks SD, happy new year!!
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Hi James ....can I know from where you got the music .....thanks
Oooooo cant wait 😀
Super ... ! :)
cool super!!!
Jeez God, dude - anything you CAN'T DO??? Sure hope you suck at cooking...
Great vid.
Sound effects always crack me up.
Великолепно!!!
Looking nice. :D iam always excited to see a new video on the wind turbine :D
Are the concrete blocks not a little to small when the turbine is on top? I would imagine the force of the wind on the blades to pull quite hard on those cables.
Thanks! The concrete ground anchors measure 18"x30", which is ~4.4 cubic feet. Concrete weighs ~150lb/cubic foot, so each anchor weighs around 650lb. That's around the same weight as my free floating back deck, which is what my last turbine rested on and was anchored to (as well as the roof). 0 problems, even during Hurricane Aurthur a few years back. Well, other than a vibration transmitting through the roof of the house and keeping me up on windy nights - that's why the new tower is attached to the utility shed instead lol. It would have to be one heck of a wind to pull those anchors up and out of the ground, I think. Especially after the disturbed soil around the perimeter settles and really locks them in place. It would take much more force than the 3 kWp that the turbine will produce at furling moment (when it turns out of the wind). To put it in perspective, my 3kW e-bike does good to get my skinny 160lb self over a 50 degree incline at full power. Some micro turbine installations simply use large screw augers or duckbill anchors, but I don't have the depth to use those. The tower base is also 6" thick, and reinforced properly with 1/2" re-bar, which is actually stronger than most garage floor slabs that are typically only 4" thick w/ wire mesh reinforcement. The tower and turbine together weigh just under 200lb, 1/20th the weight of an average vehicle. The cables have a breaking strength of 4500 lbs too.
We wait with great tension for the remaimning parts....
Looks very strong. I think you don't need the bracket on your gable. The guy wires are much stronger, and I think you will get sound and vibration transmitted into your shed.
Thanks! Bracket? You mean the turnbuckles? They're necessary for tightening the cables up properly, hand-taught isn't sufficient for a turbine this size. The quick links are also just that - 'quick' links, so I don't have to unbolt the clips to lower the tower for servicing when needed. The thimble in the cable loop also serves to keep the cable from kinking. Kinked cables are weak cables and prone to fail, whereas the thimble won't fail - it's a time proven method. I don't think the batteries will mind about a vibrations in the shed ;) Thanks for watching!
@@JamesBiggar The support bracket that holds the mast to the corner of your shed roof - I think you could remove it. Your shed might act like the body of a guitar and make noise. You seem to know what you're doing ;) I'm really impressed by the sophistication of your latest build. Beyond my abilities, but really interesting to see.
Ah yes, I see what you're saying. I read 'gable' as 'cable' lol. You're absolutely right, it will cause some noise in the shed. I would remove it, but there's a joint in the tower at that location which needs to be supported, I couldn't justify the cost for four more guys.
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Excellent work! Can i ask you something? How did you weld the pipes togheter? Just a simple weld and you reinforced it with the metal triangles for the cables? Or did you add another piece of pipe for strength?
Another sold Video James. Can hardly wait to see The Reaper in action. I'm in NB too. Are you fully off grid or grid tied? We have 9 acres near Sussex and want to build a small home but go fully off grid and would rather not deal with NB hydro at all. Just wondering if you've had to run into permitting issues or nonsense like that. We looking at doing a wind turbine/ panel combo since we have lots of wind here. Keep up the great work.
My house was off the grid but kept the main connection as a backup, until a couple of months ago. Atm the controllers, batt's, inverters, etc are disconnected in preparation to be moved from the house to the utility shed that the tower is attached to. I've accumulated a LOT more solar over the past couple of years and need more room for expanding - once that's all installed this coming summer then I can power the workshop too, and won't need any back up at all, be it the main, genny or otherwise.
I basically live in the woods in Pokiok Settlement, the government couldn't care less what I do on my property as long as I'm not disturbing wildlife or building a nuke or something crazy. But in a suburb, small town or city then it's a different story. In a rural area, installing a turbine and solar energy system is pretty much hassle free. No one is going to bother you unless you want to connect it to the grid, then NB Power will have some demands. But there are typically zoning laws everywhere else. If your property is located outside of Sussex, then I'd be really surprised if anyone made a fuss about you installing an offgrid wind/solar energy system. In most cases, people don't run into trouble with installations unless they're in town limits and they've pissed off a paranoid neighbour or something.
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I was going to ask if this is what the Reaper was going on, but you answered that in the description. Having a tower that you can lower pretty easily is nice in case you have any problems. As always, great video! If you're ever up for a day for a paid tour, LET ME KNOW! haha. All of your projects are amazing.
Very good solution, as always with your projects! May I ask if you have considered the use of a VAWT, for an application like yours? I have no hands on experience with wind turbines, but would like to know why you decided for a horizontal solution, as I'm considering installing a wind turbine and people tell me that HAWT makes a lot of noise. Thanks.
Thanks! Contrary to popular belief, HAWTs don't make a lot of noise. The wind is louder than most turbines. That's not to say that they don't make a sound either - HAWTs are slightly louder than VAWTs, but there's a good reason for that. Most DIY VAWTs are drag based designs, so they'll never turn faster than the wind that's moving them. For example, if the wind speed is 30 mph, then the blades on a drag based VAWT won't spin faster than 30 mph. Some VAWTs, like the Darrius type, utilize aerofoil blades that create lift. These machines are a bit more efficient, but still aren't as efficient as a lift based HAWT because the blades (though technically generating lift) still have to turn back into the wind stream to make a full rotation and thus the pitch changes and actaully generates a bit of resistance during part of it's rotation instead of a constant lift force. A HAWT blade turns up into the wind vs directly into it and its pitch never changes, so it's always creating lift throughout it's rotation. The biggest obstacle with a VAWT is the need for them to be very, very wide to optimize efficiency from them. Simply making them taller isn't near as effective. But the wider the rotor is, the bigger the footprint and the more risk there is of structural and mechanical failure. HAWTs are far more cost effective to build and install, and because they convert the downward drag force in a wind stream to a constant lift force, the blades are able to spin much faster than the wind - between 5-7 times faster in most cases. This is known as tip speed ratio. For example, if the wind speed is 30 mph and the TSR of a blade design is 7, then the blade tip will be spinning at 210 mph. When it comes to electrical generation, maintaining a high rotor speed is key for good output. Voltage is proportional to speed, so the faster the rotor can spin in a given wind speed, the better.
@@JamesBiggar Thanks! That was a fast and comprehensive reply, packing more information than I had got before searching multiple sources. Hope this may help others too. Keep up your excellent work!
@@JamesBiggar I teach
Wind Energy at a community college and that was a very good explanation!
is it boost lighting? due to more steel rope
No more than any other micro turbine installation. If it does strike, it'll simply be transferred to ground - electricity takes the path of least resistance.
Is this the finished product of the series or is this a previous build?
This tower is for the new Reaper turbine, the current build. This isn't the end of the series, just another part. Still have a charging system and a turbine to install yet. More video coming soon on mod's to the tail hinge, I came up with a better and sleeker design than a standard pipe hinge that'll just rust in a couple of months from wear. Turbine will be going up after that.