Monday, June 05, 2006

Build your own 1000 Watt Wind Turbine and Power your House!

We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It's a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase ac, rectified to dc, and fed to a charge controller. The magnets spin with the wind, the coils are fixed, so no brushes or slip rings necessary

For all you peeps who hate paying Vinlec every month and want to try their own thing, try out this project

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