Well....Here I go again..... I learnt some important lessons building the Mk1 wind turbine. So now I'm back with the MkII wind turbine, hopefully avoiding the mistakes I made with the Mk1. I'm taking a different approach with this one. I'll be using as many "ready made" parts as I can, to cut down on the amount of work. No wood in this one, except for the blades. Erm.... Change of plans again. I hope to build the blades from foam covered with fibreglass and resin. That should be good fun.... |
| Newset page... Winds of change. The wind turbine came down in high winds last night. I've not had a chance to check the damage yet, but it looked fairly well buried into the ground. The following pages could either be about repairing Mk2, or the birth of Mk3..... |
Turbine performance update and some solar panels have been added to the system |
| I've made more progress on the charge controller. It's now connected to the system, but only displays battery voltage at present. I still have more bits to build to make it fully functional. |
| All pictures for this site are now taken using batteries charged by the wind turbine and solar panels. :-) |
| A blade machining page is now on the site. |
| There have been some changes made to the charge controller over at www.thebackshed.com So I've produced a new PCB on the CNC machine. See the latest here. There's also some video footage of the PCB being milled and drilled here. |
| Alternator Assembly |
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| Charge Controller |
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| Rear Magnet Rotor |
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| Blade CAD Design |
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