Front view of
the hub assembly, next job is to attach a piece of ply
wood which will act as the blade fixing plate, bear in
mind that this project is to see if I can make a
basic turbine, if
all goes well, the blades and rotating assembly's will
be fabricated from exoxy resin and glass cloth, well
that's the plan.
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Blades attached
to the ply with 2 bolts on each blade and then 3 bolts
attaching the ply to the rotor hub. |
A Temporary measure to see if the
blade design works or maybe I am a little impatient, but
anyway I setup a basic pivot and connected it to a mains
cable reel as it was of a suitable length, the connections
for the test were via small crocodile clips.
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Well this will provide all the electricity
I will need. To be fair the wind was between zero
and 4 mph so the fact that it produced any electric
at all meant the design had potential and hooray the
project was a success |
It didn't take long to realise that
the higher the turbine the cleaner and stronger the wind,
so we raised it a little bit, then we managed to get a
constant-ish 8 to 12 volts, which powered a portable radio
that I had lying around. |
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