Category Archives: construction

Ferrite magnet wind turbine plans books printed out

Posted on 01/08/2014 by hugh

2F Wind Turbine Construction Manual My new plans for making a 2 metre diameter wind turbine using the more durable ferrite magnets are now available in hard copy form by post from me. It’s the same as the ebook version … Continue reading →

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Hungarian translation of the Recipe Book

Posted on 15/07/2014 by hugh

The Hungarian Translation is now available on Scribd as a pdf file. For other translations and ebooks see this link.

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Build a wind turbine Austria 6-10th September

Posted on 06/07/2014 by hugh
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DIY Wind Turbine Workshop in Bicester

Posted on 05/07/2014 by hugh

Community Action Groups Oxfordshire Thursday, 31 July 2014 at 10:00 – Sunday, 3 August 2014 at 18:00 Bicester, United Kingdom with V3 Power “In this 4-day course we collectively build a 1.8m rotor diameter 300W wind turbine from scratch, in … Continue reading →

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2014 English Units Recipe Book available as ebook

Posted on 03/07/2014 by hugh

My Wind Turbine Recipe Book comes in two editions: Metric and “English Units” (also known as “Inches” or “North American” edition).  I had to publish the English units edition because the 46x30x10mm magnets, and the metric wire sizes that I … Continue reading →

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Performance data for two Recipe turbines

Posted on 22/06/2014 by hugh

New performance data is available from field tests in Holland showing the 1.8 metre diameter turbine producing close to the predicted energy at a 4.8 m/s average windspeed. This turbine is grid-tied using a Mastervolt inverter protected by LDR circuits.   … Continue reading →

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Ideas for a 34 pole alternator design by Adriaan

Posted on 14/06/2014 by hugh

“Dear Hugh and others During the last weeks I have designed a new water pumping windmill, the VIRYA-3S. This windmill makes use of a direct drive 34-pole PM-generator and is primary meant to be coupled to the 3-phase asynchronous motor … Continue reading →

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ebook plans for 2F turbine now finally published

Posted on 07/06/2014 by hugh

Over the last couple of years I have been building some ferrite magnet alternators.  This is partly due to the sharp increase in neo magnet pricing a few years back and also the problems I have seen with neo magnets … Continue reading →

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Wind turbine builders from Holland

Posted on 02/06/2014 by hugh

Dear Hugh, About a year ago we have had contact about the inverter choice for the 4200 project. The Ginlong inverter is doing a great job so far. The turbine has produced over 1000kwh after about 4 months on a … Continue reading →

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“Build a small wind turbine” workshop in Greece

Posted on 01/06/2014 by hugh

23-31st August: “Build a small wind turbine” construction workshop in Nea Makri, Greece Kostas knows what he is talking about so this should be good.  more details…WindTurbineCourseAug2014

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