Category Archives: construction

Another video of last year’s workshop on Scoraig!

Posted on 22/01/2013 by hugh

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 hugh

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 hugh

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 hugh

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 hugh

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 … Continue reading →

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3-phase stator visualisation

Posted on 24/12/2012 by hugh

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 hugh

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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How to build a Micro Wind Turbine

Posted on 14/11/2012 by hugh

Clément Joulain has written a manual for building a one metre diameter turbine for 12-V charging using some of my basic ideas but adding some new ones. Available from Amazon in Kindle format “How to build a micro wind turbine” … Continue reading →

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Free Document downloads from Kragten Design

Posted on 12/11/2012 by hugh

Adriann Kragten has made available a number of his reports on small wind turbines for free download Here at www.bidnetwork.org/en/member/adriaankragten Adriaan writes very thorough reports with plenty of equations and clear drawings.  The reports cover both, electricity producing wind generators … Continue reading →

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SEI Workshop in the USA

Posted on 21/10/2012 by hugh

Homebuilt Wind Generators Workshop Guemes Island, Washington • October 15-20, 2012 Instructor: Hugh Piggott, Scoraig Wind Electric, Scoraig, Scotland Support staff: Ian Woofenden, Andy Gladish, Willie McWatters, Etc. Projects:  12 foot diameter 48 volt from Recipe Book with neo magnets. … Continue reading →

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