Homebrew Wind power
It is very windy in Wellington 
This thing has been up for a few years, it does about 50 watts flat out. It uses an old washing machine permanent magnet motor.
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It is very windy in Wellington
This thing has been up for a few years, it does about 50 watts flat out. It uses an old washing machine permanent magnet motor.
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Looks like a …
Looks like a speeding camera box,(hope it is one) but the thing seems to work nice so that’s cool. Nice work, what did you made the blades from? i picked up some very large aluminum fans at a local scrapyard, i want to make a wind turbine with those. VERY COOL MACHINE!
yep… how did you …
yep… how did you have the outputs wired together… star or delta connections?
at 1000 rpm a …
at 1000 rpm a gentle annie motor can genatate 1 kw of power
Yes, our ancestors …
Yes, our ancestors invented the wheel, obviously none were related to you.
dumbest thing i’ve …
dumbest thing i’ve ever seen. u know man kind invented wheel? just in case u didn’t know that
the box was made up …
the box was made up of 5mm plate steel (mild steel). The frame of the Gentle Annie Motor is fairly lightly constructed. I felt I needed to brace the construction of the motor to makes it stronger. The floor of the box is 2x 50mm 5mm thick plates welded together. Pieces of 5mm angle welded end on for the corners and a bolt each side at the top running front to back. I then cut pieces of aluminum sheet to make the front back and sides. These were riveted in place.
thanks, what did …
thanks, what did you use for the box that it is placed into?anything else you think that i will need to know?thanks again
hi – the blades are …
hi – the blades are originally from a small wind-generator built around the old bicycle hub-dynamo’s. These wind chargers were made to run battery operated electric fence systems. (Speed-rite Electric fences developed in Levin) I adapted some of these blades onto the old Gentle Annie Motor shaft.
I think if I was going to make some blades, perhaps look at cutting them out of large section plastic or alkathene pipe.
hey thats bloody …
hey thats bloody awesome, are you able to offer any help on where you got or made the parts from etc?i am wanting to do this generator myself and am also in wellington. thanks
Hi, this was out of …
Hi, this was out of the F&P Gentle Annie Washing MAchines – they were prolific here back in the later 80s and 90s. Not sure if you had them in Canada. Essentially a three phase motor, I’ve rectified each of the phases and tied the outputs together in series. The only other way I thought this PM motor might produce more is by perhaps connecting the outputs from each phase in a delta configuration. Anyway, I do have a smart-drive motor – just not deployed it yet.
Yes that is kind of …
Yes that is kind of the machine motor I was referring to. Problem with regular washing machine motors is they need high rpms to generate good power. What kind of PM motor are you using to generate 50watts flat-out?
Depends what kind …
Depends what kind of permanent magnet motor your talking about, this is not from the smart drive washing machines.
Only 50Watts? Are …
Only 50Watts? Are you sure you didn’t mean to type 500watts? A PM magnet motor from a washing machine should be able to deliver 000’s of watts under 1000rpm…
New Zealand ( …
New Zealand (Capital)
where is wellington …
where is wellington? if its colorado, were not so far apart.
woow! excellent… …
woow! excellent…very big speed,good job man
Hard to say, maybe …
Hard to say, maybe up around 1000rpm in the gusts.
Its hard to get a …
Its hard to get a picture of how fast that is going, how fast is it going?
Whats stopping you?
Whats stopping you?
cool , good for you …
cool , good for you. wish I could do that.
Hi
We have a …
Hi
We have a prevailing wind which blows from the North-West, I have set it up so that it faces in this direction. I deliberately did not add a tail to avoid complications such as a slip ring etc. Also, a small machine yawing to and fro in strong winds puts excessive loading on the blades.
cheers
There isn’t any …
There isn’t any tail to steer it into the wind. You can add a self-furling tail easily enough.
Got any …
Got any instructions on how to make one?