Category Archives: construction

Recipe Book pdf available now

Posted on 10/04/2013 by admin

A Wind Turbine Recipe Book (2013 metric pdf edition)

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Jeff Croy’s 3 metre turbine

Posted on 30/03/2013 by admin

Jeff followed my kindle edition but used north american magnets and wire sizes based on the info in my updates.  The tower is a bit short(!) but ingenious.

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Survey of locally manufactured small wind turbines

Posted on 19/03/2013 by Hugh

Message from Kostas at NTUA This survey is addressed to users, constructors and designers of locally manufactured small wind turbines (SWT) and it is part of the work conducted in the Electrical Energy systems laboratory of the National Technical University … Continue reading →

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Another video of last year’s workshop on Scoraig!

Posted on 22/01/2013 by admin

This video has just been published on Youtube.  This time it was by Kern Jamieson, the artist who did the zebra tail vane.  Thanks, Kern!

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Scoraig Wind Turbine Building Workshop April 2013

Posted on 20/01/2013 by admin

I am holding a workshop from 20th to 27th April here on Scoraig.  All welcome.  No special skills required.  Accommodation is provided. Saturday 20th is a traveling day and we will meet participants off the Westerbus that leaves Inverness at … Continue reading →

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4200 turbine design details from COMET-ME

Posted on 09/01/2013 by admin

Noam writes: “We are building new sets of the 4200 turbines. As you know we modified a bit the design of the frame, to suit our needs and expertise. Since we are making quite a few of them and we … Continue reading →

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Public domain charge controller design

Posted on 09/01/2013 by admin

Here is a link (updated February with English description) to an electronic circuit project load controller for battery voltage regulation.  It’s by Antonio Cecere, who translated my windmill plans into Italian, and the controller project is also in Italian although … Continue reading →

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Video of Scoraig Workshop 2012

Posted on 30/12/2012 by admin

Jonathan Schreiber sent me this video he made about when he came to my workshop last year.  Somehow he also manages to be in the video too Jonathan also has a blog here. I will be teaching at more workshops … Continue reading →

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3-phase stator visualisation

Posted on 24/12/2012 by admin

Thanks to Jesse Salisbury for this nice graphic visualisation of the relative movement of magnets and coils in an axial flux 3-phase design using 12 magnets on each rotor and 9 coils between them.  This is the basic layout for … Continue reading →

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More new ideas from Chris Olsen

Posted on 22/12/2012 by admin

Chris Olsen has taken a new turn in his wind turbine experiments and built a direct drive neo magnet machine for use with the Midnite Classic controller. Older stuff by Chris includes a gallery showing how to cut out a … Continue reading →

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