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Build Your Own Wind Turbine
Take a look at one of the many guides available online, like Earth4Energy for complete instructions on how to build and install a home power generating wind turbine. The guide contains everything you will need to build and install wind generated power for any home including where to find the parts you need and how to hook up the system and start generating free wind power, plus a lot more.
For part 2 of this article, see How To Build A Wind Turbine.
For part 2 of this article, see How To Build A Wind Turbine.
This is part 1 of a 2 part article on how to build your own wind turbine.
More and more people are looking for new ways to reduce their commercial energy consumption (and their power bills). Home wind power generation is becoming a more common way to accomplish this in recent years. With the right information and guidance, it is possible to build your own wind turbine as part of your overall conservation plan.
Most wind turbines consist of the same few basic parts. None are terribly complicated on their own, parts are easily accessed and assembly is fairly simple. However, power output can be greatly affected if any single component isn’t properly sized and optimized to work with the others, so you have to know what you are doing.
Of all the perhaps hundreds of written guides for sale on building your own wind turbine, there are only a few that provide all the information and exact specifications required. You can read our detailed review of our favorite written guides using the menu links on the left hand side of this page.
Before you build your own wind turbine, you need at least a high level overview of how these machines operate. Very basically, the blades are attached to a hub, which is attached to an alternator. As the blades encounter wind force, their shape causes them to turn the hub. This rotational movement creates power in the alternator which is directed through the wiring into your power system.
More and more people are looking for new ways to reduce their commercial energy consumption (and their power bills). Home wind power generation is becoming a more common way to accomplish this in recent years. With the right information and guidance, it is possible to build your own wind turbine as part of your overall conservation plan.
Most wind turbines consist of the same few basic parts. None are terribly complicated on their own, parts are easily accessed and assembly is fairly simple. However, power output can be greatly affected if any single component isn’t properly sized and optimized to work with the others, so you have to know what you are doing.
Of all the perhaps hundreds of written guides for sale on building your own wind turbine, there are only a few that provide all the information and exact specifications required. You can read our detailed review of our favorite written guides using the menu links on the left hand side of this page.
Before you build your own wind turbine, you need at least a high level overview of how these machines operate. Very basically, the blades are attached to a hub, which is attached to an alternator. As the blades encounter wind force, their shape causes them to turn the hub. This rotational movement creates power in the alternator which is directed through the wiring into your power system.
The turbine’s blades are usually shaped aerodynamically so they will turn efficiently when encountered by wind force. The blades must be balances (sort of like the wheels on your car) to prevent wobble.
The alternator is responsible for creating the energy. It usually includes magnetic rotors and copper wrapped coils inside a stator. Output flows through wiring from the alternator to your energy collection or distribution system. The total length of the wire run and the wire gage you use and your battery bank or inverter set up all impact efficiency of the output (i.e. how much of the total produced energy becomes usable).
The tail consists of a boom to which is attached the tail vain. The entire assembly is installed onto a pivot point (called the yaw bearing), which sits atop a tower. The yaw bearing is a pivot devise which allows the tail to turn the turbine into the wind. Wind turbines also turn out of the wind when their maximum speed has been exceeded, while still producing full or near full power. This is known as “furling”. The tail must be of proper size and weight to cause the turbine to furl when it should.
The alternator is responsible for creating the energy. It usually includes magnetic rotors and copper wrapped coils inside a stator. Output flows through wiring from the alternator to your energy collection or distribution system. The total length of the wire run and the wire gage you use and your battery bank or inverter set up all impact efficiency of the output (i.e. how much of the total produced energy becomes usable).
The tail consists of a boom to which is attached the tail vain. The entire assembly is installed onto a pivot point (called the yaw bearing), which sits atop a tower. The yaw bearing is a pivot devise which allows the tail to turn the turbine into the wind. Wind turbines also turn out of the wind when their maximum speed has been exceeded, while still producing full or near full power. This is known as “furling”. The tail must be of proper size and weight to cause the turbine to furl when it should.
