Showing posts with label wind power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wind power. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Homemade Wind Generator - Installing One Will Cut Your Power Costs Monthly

Homemade Wind Generator - Installing One Will Cut Your Power Costs Monthly


Rather than worrying about the rising cost of all the energy prices, it would be better for you to start thinking on how to save more of your money. 
One of the best ways to make free energy at home is with a homemade wind generator, this wind turbines can be an alternative power sources to produce free electricity to meet your household needs.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Learning How to Build a Wind Generator

Learning How to Build a Wind Generator

For those individuals searching for methods to prevent paying cash to a utility organization forever, learning how to build a wind generator is the very best choice you can make. Not only is there the possibility of becoming totally independent, but when the world is suffering from the emissions of coal and gas powered plants, a renewable power energy source is really the best step to creating a greener planet.

Why wind power? Well, it's totally free and obtainable to more than 90 per cent of the USA - unless tall buildings and geographical functions prevent access to a steady breeze. Learning how to build a wind generator is fairly basic and also the price is really much less than a lot of individuals believe.

Wind Generators For Home Use - What Homeowners Need to Know About Residential Wind Power

Wind Generators For Home Use - What Homeowners Need to Know About Residential Wind Power

When most people think about the idea of using wind generators for home use, the image that first comes to mind are those rows and rows of giant wind turbines. And for most people, it's this image that causes them to shy away from the possibility of using wind energy themselves.

Fortunately, residential wind power has come a long way in recent years. These advancements in technology have resulted in wind turbines being much smaller in size, as well as multiplying the efficiency of collecting and storing wind power. It's these improvements that have made wind power accessible and feasible to most home owners.

Monday, September 6, 2010

How Do Wind Generators Work?

How Do Wind Generators Work?

Wind generators or wind turbines are utilized for a number of factors however the primary reasons would be to produce power in the wind. This might sound challenging but it is feasible. You encounter power in the wind anytime somebody runs past you rapidly.

A second after they pass, you are able to really feel the wind that was produced. This wind which you experienced, if created in large enough quantities, could be converted into power. You might have observed the tall wind turbines standing in the fields whenever you drive by.

There is the older classic design windmill that was used to crush grain when the windmill blades would turn, the blades would turn a mechanism which was attached to some device that would crush grain for flour. You will find a number of various areas which are ideal for generating wind energy and based on where these places are, will depend on how much power is generated.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Homemade Wind Generators - Tips and Plans to Go the DIY Way

Homemade Wind Generators - Tips and Plans to Go the DIY Way

Homemade wind generators are the right solution as an affordable renewable energy source. Building a wind generator may be a daunting task if uninitiated to DIY or lacking technical knowledge, however this can be overcome with a good plan of action and the aid of a wind turbine design.

First of all, it should be found out whether a wind power unit is the right solution for your household electrical energy as opposed to solar power units. To do so, a wind resource assessment can help you decide for a wind turbine.

A wind resource assessment is based on Wind Power Density, which is the annual power available per square meter of turbine area. If you do not have a clue on how to get this information, check out NREL (National Renewable Energy Lab). They have maps for any particular area to help you decide on the feasibility of the project.

Once established that a homemade wind generator suits your purposes, check out ground clearance for mast positioning, as the blades should be as clear of obstacles as they can for optimal efficiency. The higher the blades, the stronger the wind, however a very tall mast requires an exponential amount of materials to build it, making it preferable to construct several smaller and shorter wind generators to contain costs and as a safety back up, should one fail.

Homemade wind generators of 1000 to 3000 watt can cost as little as $150 to $220 and take a weekend for construction. Materials can be purchased at a local hardware store or delivered by mail. The main components of a wind generator are: a steel pipe mast and its rigging, a nacelle (containing the motor), a Dc motor, the blades, a battery bank for the generator and possibly a DC motor analyzer software for maximum efficiency.

The blades can be either purchased or even made cheaply in few hours. Normally they are designed in a 3 blade set up to contain construction costs while providing good conversion of wind power into kinetic power.

To protect the blades and the mast from sudden, strong gusts, the windmill should have a cheap yet effective spring loaded system to allow the blades furling, which means the blades turn their edge to the wind beyond a certain resistance so as to minimize it and avoid breaking.

To allow the windmill to turn the blades facing the wind and get constant power, a simple tail will do the job. There is no need for complicated hydraulics or motor assisted mechanics like in large farm windmills. An important aspect of homemade wind generators is the battery bank to store energy from the generator. These can be found free or cheaply from old fork lift trucks and recycled back into life.

To do so it may be necessary to build also a homemade de-sulfator to pulse the battery back into action. This may seem like a complication, but a bonus point of making a de-sulfator is that these old forklift batteries can be recycled systematically and sold for profit as a stand alone business on top of the electricity savings, not just for the generator.

A DC motor analyzer software should also be complementary to a good wind generator design, providing critical data to optimize efficiency. It all sounds like a lot of hard work to do and it might even be, but it can save you $ thousands over ready made windmills. In fact, homemade wind generators avoid the hefty initial investment of ready made kits that could take a very long time to recover, while saving on electricity bills just as well.

If you do not have idea on how to build homemade wind generators, check out this website. It could save you thousands. Click on homemade wind generators.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Build a Wind Generator - How to Make Your Own

Build a Wind Generator - How to Make Your Own

We figured learning how to build a wind generator was our best option to make power for our off grid home.

We found some great wind generator plans too.

Our choice was a hard one. We could either diversify our Renewable Energy System, a choice between hydro power from our small stream or put up a wind generator. We also had the option to just buy more solar panels. We decided to learn how to build a wind generator and here is why - You may want to build your own too.

There are times of the year when even a hundred solar panels and 10 times our present battery storage would not run our home. In the fall and winter the sun may not shine for weeks at a time.

Thus, no power is produced from the solar panels, no matter how many we would have. We really wanted to smooth out the wrinkles in our charging cycle as well as produce more power for our home, that meant adding more solar panels just wouldn't work for us.

Hydro power is probably the most cost effective option if you have enough running water with an adequate drop to produce power. Water power will produce 24/7, but we had a problem with this option. From November until April our stream freezes solid and in order to produce power we need running water. Unless we could figure out a way to run ice through the hydro turbine that is.

That left us with the wind generator option. A quick assessment of our site told us we had wind energy potential. Open space and a site that was free of obstructions for over 300 yards. We would only need a 40 foot tower to get up to the good wind.

So, we started shopping for a wind generator. The wind definitely went out of our sales, so to speak, when we started looking at the price of new and used wind turbines.

During our search for a wind power turbine a friend of ours suggested why not build one. He had done just that recently with some plans he had downloaded from a website called Homemade Wind Generator. We took a look at the nice job he had done on his wind generator and decided to download our own plans.

We learned how to build a wind generator that cost us less than $100, including the small cost of the plans (still under $20), but compared to the price in the thousands for a new or used wind generator to meet our needs it was a real bargain. The plans were simple and easy to follow and provided sources for all of the material we would need. Isn't it time you built your own.

Once we knew where to look, the DC motor used for a generator was quickly located, as well as the free PVC pipe we used for the blades. Our family is quite happy learning how to build it and It produces about 1000 watts of power at 24 volts. We have plans to build a wind generator for the front yard next.

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Home-Built Wind Generator Power - What You Need to Know

Home-Built Wind Generator Power - What You Need to Know

The majority of people who are researching residential wind power are looking for an answer to a particular question on renewable energy such as information on home-built wind generator power, do it yourself wind turbines or vertical wind turbines.

Homebuilt wind generators come in many differing shapes and sizes from vertical wind generators through to the single blade wind turbine however all have one common goal and that is to produce wind power energy. The following is important information that you should know before considering which wind generator is the right choice for you.

Can you build your own wind power generator?

You bet! And the best news is that you don't have to be Tim 'the tool man' Taylor to take on a project like this either. Building your own home wind turbine is something that can be done on sliding scale from small wind turbines that power small appliances all of the way through to large wind turbines that can power entire communities.

I have had many people send me pictures of their completed residential wind turbines who have had almost no experience in construction or do it yourself projects.

What type of wind generator is right for me?

Ultimately this question can only be answered by you. The most common turbine for home wind generators is the Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine. The Horizontal Wind Generator is usually constructed as a pole that raises a three or four blade fan into the sky.

The Vertical Wind Turbine is also becoming a more common wind turbine design for residential wind power configurations due to the way the turbine blades spin. The vertical axis turbine is comprised of a center pole with blades that spin on a vertical axis meaning that it will require less room to operate when compared to the horizontal wind turbine.

What does a home-built wind generator cost?

Wind turbines can be constructed out of a range of materials that can be found at your local hardware store. You can build your own wind turbines for as little as $100 using the easy to follow wind turbine below which will take you step by step on the way to building your own wind generator.

Still not sure if residential wind power is right for you?

The best suggestion that I can make to you is to have a look at how simple these wind generator plans are and simply have a go. The materials to produce homebuilt wind generator power are inexpensive and the construction time is minimal - why not invite your friends around and start a wind turbine project?

You'll end up saving a huge amount of money on your electricity bills and will have your own home-built wind generator to be proud of. Get started on your new turbine with our easy to follow wind turbine plans.

Barry Lee is the author of the popular wind power website Residential Wind Power which provides fantastic information on vertical wind turbines and wind generators for home use.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

How to Build a Wind Generator - DIY Wind Power For Your Home

How to Build a Wind Generator - DIY Wind Power For Your Home

Why would you want to learn how to build a wind generator for use at home?

Although there are a wide range of benefits that are acquired from creating wind energy at home, the two most important reasons of learning how to build a wind generator are financial and environmental.

Financial, because of the horrendous free fall of the economy and its effect on our pockets and environmental, because if we don't start helping ourselves, our planet will be changed forever as we know it. If we could all make diy wind power for home use, we could in some way help ourselves on both fronts.

It would be impossible to explain how to build wind generator in this short article but this is how you basically go about making one.

1. You can make blades out of household items. Wood/plastic.
2. These blades have to be fixed to the wind turbine/generator. The turbine turns wind energy into mechanical energy. The generator turns that mechanical energy into electrical energy.
3. A shaft to fix the blades to the tower, letting them rotate freely.
4. A tower to keep the whole assembly high enough to make optimum use of the wind.
5. A base to keep everything in place.
6. The generator feeds its electrical energy into a charge controller or charge regulator. This limits the rate of current that feeds into your bank of batteries thus helping prolong the life of the batteries.
7. A battery bank.
8. An inverter. Your battery bank will have stored DC (direct current). This is no good for domestic appliances around the house as they require AC (alternating current). The inverter converts DC to AC electricity.
9. The AC needs to be fed into your electricity control panel. This is where by means of transformers and circuits, the correct voltage and frequency for domestic use is output.

Note. At point 6, if you want to add solar energy to give you another source of free electricity, it can be connected to the charge regulator to boost your power. Good quality plans will not only give you the blueprints on how to build wind generator, but will also include plans on how to build a solar power system as an added bonus.

Diy wind power and solar power blueprints cost about $50 or so and explain how to build your alternative energy systems for as little as $200 each. With the cost of pre constructed wind generators starting at $600, good reliable ones at $2000, several diy wind power systems could be made for the same cost plus the blueprints are always there for you.

They can be fantastic projects to carry out with family, are a lot of fun to make and are totally satisfying to complete. There are many good motives to build your own wind generator and solar systems but hardly any reasons not to.

Make use of the free, environmentally friendly and renewable resources the surround us and don't let them go to waste.http://www.homemadewindturbineplans.com

If you are interested and would like to find out more on how to build wind generator and solar power systems, please visit how to build wind generator.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

DIY Wind Generator For Cheap and Uninterrupted Power

DIY Wind Generator For Cheap and Uninterrupted Power

Wind is a type of solar energy. The irregular heating of the atmosphere by the sun, the irregularities of the earth's surface plus rotation of the earth causes winds. This wind flow or wind energy when "harvested" by modern wind turbines can be used to generate electricity.

DIY Wind Generator: Principals behind the working

When wind moves over the turbine blades, it generates a lift. The lift makes the blades rotate and hence rotate the shaft. The rotating shaft moves a magnetic field in the generator which in turn creates electricity.

Wind turbine include following parts:

  • Gearbox - Gear box connects the low and high-speed shaft to each other
  • Blades - wind blowing over the blades causes them to lift and rotate
  • Hub - the sphere object used to mount the blades on
  • Generator - Generator creates at least 60-cycle AC electricity
  • Tower - Tower is the metal pole the turbine operates from. Tower is at least 100 feet off the ground so that the turbine can capture the least turbulent wind
  • Rotor hub - Rotor hub is the hub and hold the blades together
  • Yaw drive - Yaw drive is required only for an upwind turbine; it keeps the rotor facing the wind
  • Yaw motor - It provides power for the yaw drive
  • Nacelle - Nacelle sits on top of the tower and clings to the gear box
  • Low-speed shaft - It is turned by the rotor at a rate of 30 to 60 rotations every minute
  • High-speed shaft - It connects to the generator and drives it
  • Anemometer -Anemometer is used to measures the speed of the wind

DIY Wind Generator: How it works

Wind turbine generates electricity by spinning a generator. This generator is connected to the rotor, which is made up of three blades, which is then attached to a tower. To make the turbine face the wind, the rotor has a tail, which works as weather vain.

Our DIY Wind Generator is generally an electric motor. While the coils in the motor spins past the magnets, an electric current is produced. The power which is produced is stored in batteries, which are then connected to an inverter that changes the DC to AC, which can then be used to power your home.

DIY Wind Generator: Where to Place Them?

Preferably you should put your wind turbine where it's going to catch the maximum of wind. This implies that fewer the obstacles around your wind turbine the better it would be. The higher you can put your wind turbine the greater electrical output you will get.

Take care not to put wind generators right next to your house or under a tree. Try to find a place where the wind whips all the way through, and that's the place for your wind turbine.

DIY Wind Generator: Size of wind generator

As different Sizes of wind generator requires different Start speeds. So it is very important to consider the start speeds, which depends on the size of the wind generators. Larger wind generator starts at higher speeds in comparison to the smaller wind generator which requires lesser speed.

Wind generator generates electricity only when they spin. You should rather have two smaller output wind generators spinning than one larger one sitting stationary.

So opt on to wind energy which is inexhaustible, cheapest and eco-friendly renewable source of energy.

Ralph Somers, editor of DIY Wind Generator Forum.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Building a Wind Generator

Building a Wind Generator

Building a wind generator is not a difficult task and you will be surprised to know that hundreds of thousands of people across the globe are producing electricity from their own home made wind power generators.

Electricity from renewable sources such as solar energy and wind energy are much cheaper and at the same time if you adopt these, you will definitely save our environment from pollution and global warming.

Actually you can buy a ready made assembled wind generator, however the cost of it will be in the rage of a few thousands dollars. The advantage of building a wind generator is that you can assemble it within $ 200 and therefore you have a potential to save thousands of dollars, which otherwise have been spent on buying the ready made generator.

Before you actually plan for building a wind generator, you will need to know the advantage of it especially the cost benefits of the generator. A wind generator requires space and height for installing the tower and blades of the generator and depending on the wind speed, these blades will move and will convert the wind energy into electricity.

Therefore before building a wind generator, you should also ensure that in addition to space, the wind speed in your area is also sufficient enough to produce electricity. If the average wind speed is below 5 miles per hour, the wind generators are generally not economical.

So, if you are sure that you get sufficient wind speed in your area, although most of the people live in areas where wind speed is sufficient to produce electricity, you can try building a wind generator at your home.

Start building a wind generator with the help of a guide available at Internet. If you follow the instructions given in guide, you can easily build a wind generator and produce free electricity.