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Description: Small scale wind power generators for generating renewable green environmentally friendly energy. Diagrams, designs, and data are available for free.
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If you have technical questions after reading this site, please please register on the forum and post your questions there. Workshops can be arranged to learn hands-on how to make your own, and events for schools are also available . To receive emails about upcoming courses, enter your name here (or view archive ) . The next course will be in Cape Town sometime in early 2010.
Various components are available from The Windpower Shop . NEW: For a free online blade geometry calculator, click here .
Bench Testing updated 18 Feb 2009 ( forum ) Tests were done on the workbench at speed of 600 rpm, and also with a variable speed motor at various rpm, from about 120rpm to 230rpm. Here are the results, together with graphs and some simple analysis.
Hugh Piggott's old home page