If You Can Use A Wrench And Handle A Drill The This DIY Project Is For You
Here are the essential components you will need.
- An alternator with a built in regulator. One from a 1988 GM 350 motor was used.
- A car or truck fan clutch assembly
- A bracket for mounting the alternator – galvanized pipe could be used
- A tower or pole – here we used 15′ of 2″ tubing
This generator combined with a solar panel was enough to power an off the grid cabin with all the electric luxuries of home.
Gather your parts – The next page has all the instructions.
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how do you excite the alternator??
for an alternator to generate sufficiently it has to turn at approx 1200 RPM and above, i cant see it being much help in a normal breeze…
I know it’s possible to modify alternators to have the wiring(not sure if it’s the good word in english) inside made for windmill. GM alternator could be ordered with this special wiring.
Have you actually tried getting it to work? I think you’ll find that it won’t, that silly little fan won’t get going fast enough to actually start charging anything. This tutorial is useless.
I’m sure the solar panels (lots of them) might go some ways towards running an off grid cabin with all the comforts of home. The wind turbine in this article is pure fiction (it might produce a tiny bit in a gale). Build it if you enjoy kinetic art.
that fan is temperature activated it just free wheels until the temperature gets above 160 degrees, that’s what all of the cooling fins are fore .
Remove the clutch from the fan.
This would also only produce DC power, and a converter would suck any juice you made. I took a bike generator and mounted a fan blade to it, and during good winds it will light the little red light on top of my windmill. Noting fancy, but I can tell when the wind is blowing.
so a alternator has to have energy put into it to get it to create energy it dosen’t matter if you spin it at a bazillion miles an hour if you don’t send a charge to magnetize it you will NEVER have any power and you will have a spinning paper weight
I have thought about doing this , a few gears would easily Get the rs up enough to make work , and using DC electronics is an easy solution or just remove the diodes in the rectifier bridge and have ac