Category Archives: construction

More photos from Uganda

Posted on 20/07/2012 by hugh

    Hello Hugh  The Great, Good Morning ? This is Samuel Agwotu With the Uganda Veterans Wind Power Initiative ,  it has been a while though, Just to get you updated, UVWPI , with UMEC (UGANDA MILITARY ENGINEERING COLLEGE) … Continue reading →

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Workshop in Leitrim with Eirbyte

Posted on 26/06/2012 by hugh

Here are some photos and a video of the workshop.  We built a 4200 recipe machine with 48-V battery charging output and a new design of 2 metre, 24-V turbine with ferrite magnets.  

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More from Romania

Posted on 11/06/2012 by hugh

with Dan Paraipan See also here and here

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Willie Schmidt

Posted on 10/06/2012 by hugh

Willie Schmidt is building a 3 metre ferrite turbine in South Africa 12 ferrite magnets 75 x 50 mm (3 x 2 inches) 440 mm rotor diameter disk 250 turns (2 x 0.8mm dia wire) for a 36 volt battery … Continue reading →

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Kings River 4.2m wind turbine building workshop Kilkenny

Posted on 10/06/2012 by hugh

A nice photo gallery by Eirbyte of the recent workshop course in Kilkenny where they built a 4.2 metre diameter turbine. Clever way to anchor the coils while connecting the tails. See the whole gallery here

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Low cost workshop course in Ireland

Posted on 08/06/2012 by hugh

I am off to Ireland soon to help teach a course with Jimmy and Miriam of Eirbyte in Leitrim.  The course runs from 18th – 23rd June near Keshcarrigan This will be a practical hands-on week of workshop time, running … Continue reading →

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Fundy Solar building Recipe wind turbines in Canada

Posted on 06/06/2012 by hugh

The full story is here “We also lead workshops on how to build these machines. If you are interested in owning one, a workshop is the best way to learn the ins and outs of maintenance, performance and monitoring. It … Continue reading →

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Clearer drawing of the 10-pole 12 coil design

Posted on 26/05/2012 by hugh

Note added at end of 2017: For some reason this page is the most popular page on my blog, and there has been a stream of comments and discussion.  I am glad if it is useful but I feel the … Continue reading →

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Making wooden blades with Max

Posted on 20/05/2012 by hugh

A well made video by Max ‘Menelaus’ of www.kleinwindanlagen.de showing how to shape blades using a bandsaw and power sander.  It’s also interesting to note the reduced number of steps in the process compared to the procedure in my Recipe … Continue reading →

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Photos of the Scoraig wind turbine building workshop

Posted on 12/05/2012 by hugh

Participants: 6 (Robert, Jonathan, Kostas, Benji, Yanti and Kern) Dates: 5-12 May 2012  Location: Scoraig. Project: 3 metre machine using ferrite/ceramic magnets at 24VDC Poles: 10, (3 magnet blocks 50 x 50 x 20 per pole) Coils: 12 (37 turns … Continue reading →

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