How to make your own 500w wind turbine from factory ready-made components - low hassle DIY
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- @ModernUkrainianHomestead
These are the components for this lazy DIY 500w small wind turbine:
1. the generator: s.click.aliexp....
2. hub with mounting plate, blades, cone, and all the bolts and screws: s.click.aliexp....
3. slip contact ring or slip ring: s.click.aliexp....
4. lower holder-bearing - just showing you the example from my local Ukrainian supermarket - you will have to find one locally by yourself: epicentrk.ua/u....
Everything else - it's the lefties, or leftovers, some steel pipes, some roofing screws, and some roofing elements leftovers.
About the controller, there are two options:
1. cheap one, but don't count for much from it - s.click.aliexp....
2. nice controller (600/600 version would be more than enough, but you are welcome to get the bigger one if you want): s.click.aliexp....
And, well, you may not bother, but just go and get the factory-made one М3 or SM3 which is likely similar, don't forget to add 40cm to the tail length: s.click.aliexp...
Link to the tails calculations article: www.windynatio...
Wind turbine calculator: www.omnicalcul...
except for the learning to be gained it seems wind is not worth the trouble and expense. I have been looking into the old wind powered well pumps that were used in central Montana (US) until the 70s, there were also some old dc current wind generators in the remote homesteads until the federal government subsidized a large grid system. They used a different style of rotor to catch the wind and were mounted only 20-40 feet (10-15 meters) from the ground.
Yes and no.
We have a little of grid power now, and there will be almost nothing of grid power during the winter time.
My observations are as follows regarding the self-cost of electricity:
1. From solar - $0.03 per 1 kWh
2. From grid we currently have $0.108 per 1 kWh
3. From wind (reality for small home wind turbines) - $0.15 per 1 kWh
4. From a diesel/petrol generator - $0.7 per 1 kWh
And now consider there is no option 2, and there is very little sun, or no sun (option 1 cannot produce enough)...
What is better - option 3 or 4?
I will do whatever I can to reduce the usage of option 4.
The winter will be tough, since currently thanks to the russians we have daily grid outage for about 8 hours per day, in winter time that outage time will be doubled...
So, I am getting prepared as much as possible - adding battery capacity, adding solar capacity (2.5 kW of panels) together with the optimizers, and of course finishing my setup with the wind turbines (in the end I will have 4 kW of nominal wind power installed).
Reason for this is that my DAILY winter consumption is going to be 50-120 kWh (depends on the temperature outside), since everything is on the electricity. The most consuming element is the heating.
@@ModernUkrainianHomestead Yes i understand you have to deal with problems that i have never had to. Any power is better when the option is none. Thank you for sharing your efforts in a difficult real world situation.
Is ~80USD good for the blue wind controller? The 1.65m 24mm wide motor you linked in another video is on sale for about $230USD right now, about $80 more to add the controller from that seller. Thanks
yes. that blue $80 controller (600wind/600solar version) is the perfect match for it. If the seller's combo price is the same - go for a bundle.
however, in my case - I'd go separate, to reduce (or to completely eliminate) import taxes.
if you are asking specifically about the controller price - I bought two (you may have seen them in the other video). One was $94, the other one (exactly same) I managed to get for $76. so $80 is actually a great price.