Category Archives: People

Curso de Fabricación de Aerogeneradores de Baja Potencia

Posted on 20/10/2011 by hugh

500rpm in Argentina are running a course for wind turbine construction Download pdf http://www.500rpm.org/detalle_noticia_rpm.php?ID=233

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Wind tunnel testing in Holland

Posted on 15/10/2011 by hugh

TU Delft are conducting tests on the 1800 turbine The identification of the performance of the wind turbine will be done by means of wind tunnel testing. For this a 1.8 diameter wind turbine based on the design of Hugh … Continue reading →

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rien zilvold upscaled 1800 12 volt windturbine

Posted on 14/10/2011 by hugh

Hi Hugh, My upscaled 1800 12 volt windturbine is up and works fine I used   Upscaled   1800-2150 m’n blades. Tsr 6. 2 discs with magnets. THE stator has 1.5mm coils with 120 turns. The stator reaches 12 volt at 190 … Continue reading →

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Pedal power using electric bike motors

Posted on 13/10/2011 by hugh

This video by is from this interesting web page about bike motors  

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Iliocht’s Wind turbine story at Irish site ‘Build your own wind turbine’

Posted on 13/10/2011 by hugh

There are some good photos and history of a 2.4 m diameter turbine with corroded magnets at the Build Your Own Wind Turbine site in Ireland.  A paint job on some corroded magnets in 2009 and we get to see … Continue reading →

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Disabled build and install a Piggott turbine! (world premiere)

Posted on 09/10/2011 by hugh

The students from the Yombo Vocational Training Center, Tanzania have to live with a disability. But this doesn’t mean that they are disabled in general, or even worse: ‘un-able’ in general.  In the past two weeks students, teachers and instructors … Continue reading →

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Workshop in Estonia

Posted on 04/10/2011 by hugh

Criss and Madis who joined my workshop here at Scoraig last year have done a workshop at home is Estonia.  Here they are installing the 3 metre turbine on an existing wind site: You can see photos of the course … Continue reading →

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Bruno’s blades

Posted on 02/10/2011 by hugh

I got this email from Bruno with some lovely photos of his blades made from birch plywood.  I am not sure that plywood is the best thing to use for blades (where the stresses are longitudinal) but it seems to … Continue reading →

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Blade contruction guide

Posted on 28/09/2011 by hugh

I cam across this rather nice guide to fibreglass blade production that was produced by Andrew Corbyn & Matthew Little, of Engineers Without Borders and SIBAT – Philippines in 2008. It is based on using wooden blades from my older 2005 … Continue reading →

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Komic Monastery electrification at 14,800 feet

Posted on 21/09/2011 by hugh

Thanks to Vivek Mundkur for these photos from the heart of the Himalayas.

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