The full step by step build tutorial is available free at: opensourcelowtech.org/wind_turbine.html Thanks for watching. If you have any questions let me know, and if you do make a turbine definitely send me some photos.
I'm quite impressed by your great tutorial at opensourcelowtechorg. Keep up the good work! Oh, BWT: the deep link in your video description pointing to your tutorial at solarflowerorg seems to be broken. Just wanted to let you know in case you want to change it.
I don't care if it works, i don't care if its over $30 dollars to build. This was a great presentation, no hideous background noise and beautiful graphics. WELL DONE......
This is the first graphic simulation that has not annoyed me... it showed actual step-by-step methods. While I watched, I was hoping you would show an actual finished turbine, and you didn't disappoint me. I also really liked the "music"... silence is indeed golden! Thanks.
One minor suggestion, if you ever render this again or to anyone building it, you should consider inverting the alternator / generator. It doesn't change any of th load on the bearings and will allow you to put a cap over it to keep the weather out.
It's an excellent presentation. One of the greatest problems with wind turbines is being able to recover more than your investment in useful energy. This has potential for people with the skills to source the materials and build it.
Robb403 energy companies fight tooth and nails to make sure the DYI and home owners, technical advantage of wind, solar and other resources fail. They prevent you from connecting to the grid which would in effect allow you sell your excess power back to the energy companies. They lobby state and the federal government making sure they control every bit of our power needs.
The problem being that the power company won't allow you to produce power into the grid without permission (you need to add equipment to your meter to make it possible too). It would actually be dangerous to just start feeding power backwards - not just to your house, but also to any line worker down the road who does not know the wires aren't completely shut off.
Congratulations! Great work and even greater you shared it to the public with so easy detailed instructions instead of just becoming rich from it. The world will be a lot better with many people like you. Bravo.
I watched the video and thought this looked unrealistic, as in, I don't have a metal break etc, but I read the instructions and I was wrong! Very good detail, video, material sourcing; I want to emphasise that word DETAIL, which is so often lacking. Great job right down to things like, 'don't cut towards your hands', a lesson so often learned the hard way! I'll be looking at more of your tutorials. It would be interesting to see a power curve, and how the projected efficiency compares with what you can actually get out of it.
If the people who says that things can't be done ruled the world, humanity would be extinguished long time ago. Don't give a damm to those comments! Great work!
Interesting and pretty ingenious design. Thank you for sharing. Also agree with other commenters--the lack of annoying, "flashy", mindless music was nice. Check out the Water's wind turbine though--allegedly the most efficient wind turbine design so far out there (it's called "Water's" because that is his last name). When I get done with some of the projects I'm working on, I'm going to design a Water's type design, using a combo of cardboard, S-glass fiberglass cloth, Titebond III glue, some carbonized cellulose nanocrystals, split bamboo, bamboo, UHMWPE cord, and foam (will try to omit the foam since it's not very eco). Not sure what kind of generation motor I plan to attach to it. Either a stepper or treadmill. Also am working on developing batteries and super capacitors for the energy storage part.
@@OpenSourceLowTech I don't know of any, which is why I said "allegedly" earlier. But the principles as he explains on his site sounds and seems sound. Robert Murray Smith made a small version of one, and despite the lack of strong wind and that he was just holding it, it worked pretty well considering. I believe he used a radiator blower fan. I don't remember what kind of motor he hooked up to it. It would be easy enough to just make one an test yourself, which is what I plan to do.
Sigh you described what has been mulling about in the brain...THANK YOU! Round about $30 too! You have tools though...like drill, tin snips, etc... I have imagination...so lets see how much it takes to manifest tools to make more tools! Your upload is MOST HELPFUL!$!
Many thanks whoever you are! I can see all the work and love you put into the details of your CAD tutorial, every detail is there! even bending the metal back and forth! I had to laugh as you even included the Alu sheets from the printing press that I have also picked up occasionally from my local scrap yard here in Bonn, Germany. Again, Thanks !
Beautiful..magnificent...is a bit challenging to build..however i have most of everything thats needed..like bicycle wheels, and chain, and a treadmill motor laying around..
Great vid. In the future you should consider using the closed captioning for instruction and other data. And measurement data, where/when applicable should be the dominent thing in the screenshot.
Excellent Presentation without the normal crappy music also excellent Design,Why would anyone with a normal mind complain about something shared for nothing? It Boggles my mind.Thank You
Well done! I'm always so impressed by someone, such as yourself, who comes up with something cool and also takes the time to share it with everyone by making a high quality step-by-step video and web page. Thank you, I'm going to save this and would love to make it one day. Cheers!
this is an amazing insight into the build, i just subscribed i also have built a 50 watts, 75 watts panel and 2 wind turbines on my channel successfully
Beautiful video and guide! Well done ... i do this for a living and i must say - after looking at your parts lists, IGES and STEP files - you have done an outstanding job explaining and documenting the build and the process. Very refreshing !
OpenSourceLowTech MXLinux or Linux Mint. Its as simple as installing Windows. Just go buy a new SSD Hard drive and install it. I have used Windows. Mac and now Linux. I haven’t touched my Mac in over a year. The Free software is fantastic.
Seeing it constructed without a builder all over it is so much better. Would have been helpful to see a brief display of what each material is used, such as the sheeting used, generator, etc.
Wow thank you for the post, amazing detail, as soon as I can I will be attempting to build this turbine. You don't need a massive turbine to charge a battery bank.
Good video. Suggest since inherently a vertical can never get more than 50% (usually less) of the wind force available because it fights the wind coming around from the back: that you put regular horizontal axis w vanes, to maximize the energy available. I like the slow moving (SAFER) large vanes aka Dutch windmill w perhaps 30 ft vanes that furl up in high winds, etc.
Add in a swash plate pump motor to the windmills build. The swash plate pump motor can control the speed of the blades and also be used has a breaking system to save your windmill from self destructing from high winds. 😊😉
Re-read to post i never discussed the electrical power generation only a way to control windmill speed and breaking in high winds. Yet you could design a larger support pole and line the sides with drum motors rewired into electrical power generation configurations with the swash plate pump motor operating an automatic transmission with the base being constructed to also hold organic carbon power cell banks that you can draw energy from. You could use Tesla coils for line of sight energy transmission and not have to worry about running electrical wires has well. Well that's a little more high technology is it not? 😕
That's a lot of heavy sheet metal. A lot of bending and cutting too. I would make curved channels and slide some flexible plexiglass into them. Less weight means less energy to get it turning. Might be able to add another vane or two as well, increasing the area which reduces lost air and helps overcome resistance from the returning vanes on the other side.
I’d like to see a video of the actual build. The computer build was cool, but all I kept thinking was, “Awesome! Now my Sims will have free power.” Also, I’d like to see a video of it actually functioning and the real time power output.
His actual Builds ua-cam.com/video/_z4K7w3tM3E/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/Qu203wNpFJY/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/8oe6egO0YOc/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/ZFUtDQcyOY8/v-deo.html
How thick are the aluminum / aluminium sheets supposed to be? Is there any "rule of thumb" regarding an ideal thickness? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks a lot for taking the time and effort in making these plans and the tutorial available!
0.3mm is standard for the printing plates and about perfect. Some people have made them out of galvanised steel tho, which is impressive given how much harder it is to bend and score.
seems like any sudden jerks on the blades will wreck your belt. id add much more space for it. also, a belt and generator exposed to the elements dont seem like it will last very long.
I'm now going with a slightly different configuration, will be in the upcoming updated tutorial. Alternators like hoverboard wheels are fairly weatherproofed, others like motorbike alternators not so much... probably need some kind of basic housing.
Axial wind turbines are kinda interesting, but they aren't appropriate every where. They have a difficult time self starting. This doesn't sound like a drawback, but in places where the wind is intermittent, they can stall out. Some of that can be mitigated by using a generator that can act as a motor in some situations, but electric generators that can act as electric motors often can overload, which then makes lack of high intensity wind and emergency disconnect important.
Darrieus type vertical axis turbines do indeed not self start well, but this is a Lenz2 type, which will start in practically zero wind (depending on load, obv).
There's various options, depending. Good for direct drive are SmartDrive style DD washing machine motors and electric bicycle wheels. With a belt drive system hoverboard wheels, treadmill motors, and potentially motorbike alternators. There's a list and more info in the Facebook discussion group linked in the description.
I love the bicycle wheel idea. Would be good to service the bearings, if using an old wheel. Not a difficult job. Would there be less friction if you use the original chain sprocket from the centre of the wheel to drive the alternator? This could be linked to another wheel with a larger gear, which would behave as a sort of flywheel. Beautiful video.
Wouldn't get enough revs off a sprocket to get high enough voltage to charge a battery and reduce line losses. Having the full wheel rim gives about a 12:1 gearing ratio. Flywheel would have certain advantages but I'd rather the turbine can spin up easily in changing winds.
Seems pretty complicated ! Some years ago i built a sevonius rotor using 12 inch stove pipe, 3 levels each 2 foot high. This was mounted on a car front wheel bearing belt driving a 12 VDC alternator. It was all assembled on a 20 foot 2 inch pipe. The wings were spring loaded so they would open in a heavy wind. I used it to charge a set of heavy duty batteries ( ex telephone company) as back up for my Ham radio station. KB7NK
Great design! Do you also have a good solution for the power transformation? Most Generators like the alternator of Motorbikes produce AC. So it is not a possibility to just use a cheap MPPT solar charger to power up the batteries. Whats your solution for that?
Depends on the specifics of your setup, but some viable options are hoverboard wheels, ebike wheels, motorbike alternators, direct drive washing machine motors, and DIY from scratch. A bridge rectifier will convert from single or three phase AC to DC.
The full step by step build tutorial is available free at: opensourcelowtech.org/wind_turbine.html
Thanks for watching. If you have any questions let me know, and if you do make a turbine definitely send me some photos.
Yes - Where can you buy the motor/alternator?
I'm quite impressed by your great tutorial at opensourcelowtechorg. Keep up the good work!
Oh, BWT: the deep link in your video description pointing to your tutorial at solarflowerorg seems to be broken. Just wanted to let you know in case you want to change it.
@@beinspiredtomake Which link where?
@@OpenSourceLowTech solarflower.org/tutorial.php... redirects to solarflower homepage (first line of video description)
@@beinspiredtomake That's been updated for the new links and info.. you may be seeing an old cached version of the description for some reason?
I don't care if it works, i don't care if its over $30 dollars to build. This was a great presentation, no hideous background noise and beautiful graphics. WELL DONE......
that's what I came to say too!
Make that 3 !!! I was just logging on to ask what software package they used to make this video. It's AMAZING !!!
yeah this is the first time I have seen graphics like this premo stuff...
Anyone know what they used ?
@@SmeeUncleJoe i know it was rendered in maya.
This is the first graphic simulation that has not annoyed me... it showed actual step-by-step methods. While I watched, I was hoping you would show an actual finished turbine, and you didn't disappoint me. I also really liked the "music"... silence is indeed golden! Thanks.
Thanks!
Ditto on the music.
What John said. Thanks for uploading.
play it on slow speed and take notes guys or go to the video info section and click on the tutorial link. Pretty good video man thanks for posting it
People love to criticise I love video's of people with inventive ideas and follow the through, I watch loads and gain knowledge so thank you.
Thank you for not poisoning this video with hideous background music!
Yeah that's always annoyed me too. Especially if you need to skip around to see different parts.
A bit of narration would be nice though.
Its pretty easy to mute a video though.
Ditto!
Haha! Agreed, the video I just watched before I found this one - it was like listening to a dentist drill while trying to focus on important details.
Thanks a lot,really nice work without idiotic background music and pointless blabbering. I'm happy to see someone with a good taste.
One minor suggestion, if you ever render this again or to anyone building it, you should consider inverting the alternator / generator. It doesn't change any of th load on the bearings and will allow you to put a cap over it to keep the weather out.
I've been wondering how this could be winterized
It's an excellent presentation. One of the greatest problems with wind turbines is being able to recover more than your investment in useful energy. This has potential for people with the skills to source the materials and build it.
Robb403 energy companies fight tooth and nails to make sure the DYI and home owners, technical advantage of wind, solar and other resources fail. They prevent you from connecting to the grid which would in effect allow you sell your excess power back to the energy companies. They lobby state and the federal government making sure they control every bit of our power needs.
I don't disagree, however, you generate energy so you can use it, so... is there really that much need to sell it?
The problem being that the power company won't allow you to produce power into the grid without permission (you need to add equipment to your meter to make it possible too). It would actually be dangerous to just start feeding power backwards - not just to your house, but also to any line worker down the road who does not know the wires aren't completely shut off.
Congratulations! Great work and even greater you shared it to the public with so easy detailed instructions instead of just becoming rich from it. The world will be a lot better with many people like you. Bravo.
Open Source will change whole world 🌍 ☺
I watched the video and thought this looked unrealistic, as in, I don't have a metal break etc, but I read the instructions and I was wrong! Very good detail, video, material sourcing; I want to emphasise that word DETAIL, which is so often lacking. Great job right down to things like, 'don't cut towards your hands', a lesson so often learned the hard way! I'll be looking at more of your tutorials. It would be interesting to see a power curve, and how the projected efficiency compares with what you can actually get out of it.
Thanks!
Currently in the process of setting up some more detailed test installs for mapping power output and maintenance.
If the people who says that things can't be done ruled the world, humanity would be extinguished long time ago. Don't give a damm to those comments! Great work!
It's because they have no to little understanding of such things.
Interesting and pretty ingenious design. Thank you for sharing. Also agree with other commenters--the lack of annoying, "flashy", mindless music was nice.
Check out the Water's wind turbine though--allegedly the most efficient wind turbine design so far out there (it's called "Water's" because that is his last name).
When I get done with some of the projects I'm working on, I'm going to design a Water's type design, using a combo of cardboard, S-glass fiberglass cloth, Titebond III glue, some carbonized cellulose nanocrystals, split bamboo, bamboo, UHMWPE cord, and foam (will try to omit the foam since it's not very eco).
Not sure what kind of generation motor I plan to attach to it. Either a stepper or treadmill. Also am working on developing batteries and super capacitors for the energy storage part.
I've seen that design mentioned here and there, but not come across any test data as such. Got a link?
@@OpenSourceLowTech I don't know of any, which is why I said "allegedly" earlier. But the principles as he explains on his site sounds and seems sound. Robert Murray Smith made a small version of one, and despite the lack of strong wind and that he was just holding it, it worked pretty well considering.
I believe he used a radiator blower fan. I don't remember what kind of motor he hooked up to it.
It would be easy enough to just make one an test yourself, which is what I plan to do.
Excellent as already commented, what a great presentation very well laid out, thank you
That's the best tutorial I've ever seen .. thanks.
Marvellous effort on the DIY platform. Great soundless tutorial, thank you
Well presented cad animations .. cool idea too for a lightweight design. Thanks for sharing ❤
Sigh you described what has been mulling about in the brain...THANK YOU!
Round about $30 too! You have tools though...like drill, tin snips, etc... I have imagination...so lets see how much it takes to manifest tools to make more tools!
Your upload is MOST HELPFUL!$!
outstanding presentation of how to build something!
That pump at the end was sickk
Excellent tutorial with well-designed CGI run-through of each step. And it doesn't take an engineer to understand how to do this. Thanks for posting!
Many thanks whoever you are! I can see all the work and love you put into the details of your CAD tutorial, every detail is there! even bending the metal back and forth! I had to laugh as you even included the Alu sheets from the printing press that I have also picked up occasionally from my local scrap yard here in Bonn, Germany. Again, Thanks !
thats the most beneficial youtube channel i have ever seen/watch indeed!
@Black Magik its from another parallel universe's english
Beautiful..magnificent...is a bit challenging to build..however i have most of everything thats needed..like bicycle wheels, and chain, and a treadmill motor laying around..
Any questions let me know.
Zig says outstanding cgi, genius behind this!!!
it takes a lot to do such a video for others. You have my respect. And for sure a subscription.
congratulations, i will try when I own a house :)
This is perfect for an architecture project (live) I am working with. Thanks a ton!
/Adam
This is the representation of Silence is Gold!
great animation. one of the best i've seen here.
Great vid. In the future you should consider using the closed captioning for instruction and other data. And measurement data, where/when applicable should be the dominent thing in the screenshot.
All right! DIYers comment with your real world build examples! Let's see how practical it really is!
Excellent Presentation without the normal crappy music also excellent Design,Why would anyone with a normal mind complain about something shared for nothing? It Boggles my mind.Thank You
I cant even begin to pretend to understand what i watched but i realky enjoied it!!
Excellent design
Yes I was looking into using motor bike alternators so please to see you have too!
They're about the best option in lower resource environments that I'm aware of, in terms of power, efficiency, availability, and ease of use.
Hoverboard wheels and direct drive washing machine motors are excellent tho, if you can get hold of one..
Well done! I'm always so impressed by someone, such as yourself, who comes up with something cool and also takes the time to share it with everyone by making a high quality step-by-step video and web page. Thank you, I'm going to save this and would love to make it one day. Cheers!
That tripple motor are insane
AWESOME Brother
HATS OFF to you
Keep that high spirit and great work going on and on
Thank you. Your video is very cool and useful. My name is Thien Hung, I am in Vietnam. Glad to be friends with you.
This is amazing. I want to make this with my son
Very clear graphics , well explained.
this is an amazing insight into the build, i just subscribed i also have built a 50 watts, 75 watts panel and 2 wind turbines on my channel successfully
Looks good. If you're on facebook we've got a bit of a community forum group going: facebook.com/groups/windturbinemakers/
This is incredible. Wish I found you sooner. Building one of these right away!
Loved the presentation! I’m smiling all the way but totally impractical at the budget price quoted!!! Thanx for the entertaining enlightenment!
Beautiful video and guide! Well done ... i do this for a living and i must say - after looking at your parts lists, IGES and STEP files - you have done an outstanding job explaining and documenting the build and the process.
Very refreshing !
You suck too!.
This is why I love Fusion 360
Actually is modeled in Rhino and everything else in Maya, but Fusion 360 is also very good software, yes.
@@OpenSourceLowTech I am learning fusion 360 now. Love it, but wish it was linux compatible.
I should really pick it up as well. Some day.
And yeah, 3D software compatibility is the main reason I'm still on Windows.
OpenSourceLowTech MXLinux or Linux Mint. Its as simple as installing Windows. Just go buy a new SSD Hard drive and install it.
I have used Windows. Mac and now Linux. I haven’t touched my Mac in over a year. The Free software is fantastic.
It was so interesting I forgot what I was watching it for!
Seeing it constructed without a builder all over it is so much better. Would have been helpful to see a brief display of what each material is used, such as the sheeting used, generator, etc.
Check the description for a link to the full build tutorial, with tools materials processes etc.
Very well done! beautifully executed.
$30 dollars but $2000 worth of my time. Love the video never the less
I can make a full six vane turbine on my own in about five hours from scratch, half that with precut sheets.
Great presentation !
downright amazing video! hoping to make at least one of these!
Nice to see that.
Looks so easy to build that.
Thanks.
Wow thank you for the post, amazing detail, as soon as I can I will be attempting to build this turbine. You don't need a massive turbine to charge a battery bank.
Great video and really nice animation. I wish my drill was that sharp!
MAN, now THAT is how to show a construction method. They say a pic's worth a thousand words. What do you think this animation "movie" is worth?
a book full of words or same pictures
Why the lossy chain and not directly turn the generator from the axis of the windmill?
Awesome rendering, I love the animation of the construction
Good video. Suggest since inherently a vertical can never get more than 50% (usually less) of the wind force available because it fights the wind coming around from the back: that you put regular horizontal axis w vanes, to maximize the energy available. I like the slow moving (SAFER) large vanes aka Dutch windmill w perhaps 30 ft vanes that furl up in high winds, etc.
Awesome layout work. Really creative.
Add in a swash plate pump motor to the windmills build. The swash plate pump motor can control the speed of the blades and also be used has a breaking system to save your windmill from self destructing from high winds. 😊😉
Interesting. What's the advantage of that over another type of load, like an alternator?
Re-read to post i never discussed the electrical power generation only a way to control windmill speed and breaking in high winds. Yet you could design a larger support pole and line the sides with drum motors rewired into electrical power generation configurations with the swash plate pump motor operating an automatic transmission with the base being constructed to also hold organic carbon power cell banks that you can draw energy from. You could use Tesla coils for line of sight energy transmission and not have to worry about running electrical wires has well. Well that's a little more high technology is it not? 😕
What a nice video. You just made an awesome renderization! Dude, that's great!
Muchas gracias por tan instructivo video.
hi great job ,hug from argentina !!! and thanks for make and share a beter world
Perfect video tutorial.
That's a lot of heavy sheet metal. A lot of bending and cutting too.
I would make curved channels and slide some flexible plexiglass into them. Less weight means less energy to get it turning. Might be able to add another vane or two as well, increasing the area which reduces lost air and helps overcome resistance from the returning vanes on the other side.
Vanes are 0.3mm aluminium and weigh about 500g each. Any other material other than cardboard would be heavier, especially plexiglass.
Nice animation !
Great idea!
That's actually pretty cool 😀
I’d like to see a video of the actual build. The computer build was cool, but all I kept thinking was, “Awesome! Now my Sims will have free power.”
Also, I’d like to see a video of it actually functioning and the real time power output.
www.windstuffnow.com/main/
His actual Builds
ua-cam.com/video/_z4K7w3tM3E/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/Qu203wNpFJY/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/8oe6egO0YOc/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/ZFUtDQcyOY8/v-deo.html
How thick are the aluminum / aluminium sheets supposed to be?
Is there any "rule of thumb" regarding an ideal thickness?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks a lot for taking the time and effort in making these plans and the tutorial available!
0.3mm is standard for the printing plates and about perfect. Some people have made them out of galvanised steel tho, which is impressive given how much harder it is to bend and score.
seems like any sudden jerks on the blades will wreck your belt. id add much more space for it. also, a belt and generator exposed to the elements dont seem like it will last very long.
I'm now going with a slightly different configuration, will be in the upcoming updated tutorial.
Alternators like hoverboard wheels are fairly weatherproofed, others like motorbike alternators not so much... probably need some kind of basic housing.
Sir i like the video v much
But one question
What will happen to the generator in high wind turbulence?
How to control/regulate it?
Great video and it will be great if we could in real cut and drill metals so fast, smooth, quick, precise and with good finishing😀
That is VERY very clever...nice animation as well!
I absolutely LOVE the 3-phase implementation! What if it’s geared to start generating at lower wind speeds???
beautiful construction methods using simple materials. This could be made very automated with a laser cutter
I've tried but lasers don't do well with aluminium.
CNC routers work quite well tho..
Awesome thanks 😊
Axial wind turbines are kinda interesting, but they aren't appropriate every where.
They have a difficult time self starting. This doesn't sound like a drawback, but in places where the wind is intermittent, they can stall out.
Some of that can be mitigated by using a generator that can act as a motor in some situations, but electric generators that can act as electric motors often can overload, which then makes lack of high intensity wind and emergency disconnect important.
Darrieus type vertical axis turbines do indeed not self start well, but this is a Lenz2 type, which will start in practically zero wind (depending on load, obv).
Great work. Thanks for taking the time.
Hi, well done. Thanks. I wonder, what kind of generator/alternator is best to use. Regards Heinz, Germany
There's various options, depending. Good for direct drive are SmartDrive style DD washing machine motors and electric bicycle wheels. With a belt drive system hoverboard wheels, treadmill motors, and potentially motorbike alternators.
There's a list and more info in the Facebook discussion group linked in the description.
GREAT PRESENTATION !!!!!!!!!!
Superb bro
Metal from printing shop. Nice.
Wow.
Amazing vidéo.
What motor would you use for this turbine?
Car alternator or washing machine motor?
Thank you.
Loïc
Reminds me of one that Honeywell produced some time back. Those sold for $1500.00
Great work ❤love u sir
I love the bicycle wheel idea. Would be good to service the bearings, if using an old wheel. Not a difficult job.
Would there be less friction if you use the original chain sprocket from the centre of the wheel to drive the alternator? This could be linked to another wheel with a larger gear, which would behave as a sort of flywheel.
Beautiful video.
Wouldn't get enough revs off a sprocket to get high enough voltage to charge a battery and reduce line losses. Having the full wheel rim gives about a 12:1 gearing ratio. Flywheel would have certain advantages but I'd rather the turbine can spin up easily in changing winds.
Muy bueno, me pondré manos a la obra. Great job!
Do you have more practical easire one for more megerity of people?
Great Idea, I wud love to experiment one of these. Thanks for sharing your idea's with us
Great video production!
shaft is better than chain or belt, universal joint to connect to generator or directly to a load on the ground
flag pole adviced for easy high install and fixing if needed, planetary gears if speed changes are needed
My 2 cents
You got the shaft in the pipe the propeller spins just attach it to a racing alternator
Much simpler
Seems pretty complicated ! Some years ago i built a sevonius rotor using 12 inch stove pipe, 3 levels each 2 foot high. This was mounted on a car front wheel bearing belt driving a 12 VDC alternator. It was all assembled on a 20 foot 2 inch pipe. The wings were spring loaded so they would open in a heavy wind. I used it to charge a set of heavy duty batteries ( ex telephone company) as back up for my Ham radio station. KB7NK
Great design! Do you also have a good solution for the power transformation? Most Generators like the alternator of Motorbikes produce AC. So it is not a possibility to just use a cheap MPPT solar charger to power up the batteries. Whats your solution for that?
Depends on the specifics of your setup, but some viable options are hoverboard wheels, ebike wheels, motorbike alternators, direct drive washing machine motors, and DIY from scratch.
A bridge rectifier will convert from single or three phase AC to DC.
enjoyed your idea .. it opens to alot of diy.. i hope for more vids
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.