I Put A Wind Mill On My Camper Van
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-  I came up with a crazy idea to install a wind turbine on the front of my camper van. We didn’t have much experience with windmills or  wind turbines but we did our best and it ended up working great.
We live out of our camper, van full time and plan on continuing to make all types of building videos for you guys.
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When you are driving you have an alternator producing electricity. The wind turbine causes the van to use more energy than usual to power it
I love your ingenuity, However with an increase in coefficient of drag, it may be a wash. Nothing is free!
Completely agree we don’t plan on keeping it. We just built it for fun and to see if a small motor can produce electricity. We plan on making the many more building videos like this in the future.
It's the power of your van, unless you coast down hill.
You already have a built in generator.. Get an isolator circuit going from your alternator to your lithium batteries. Have a switch to toggle when you’re on long hauls. The wind turbine you’ve made isn’t efficient enough (good attempt tho). It’s just going to add drag to your vehicle. Hope this helps.
The van y’all have made is awesome! And glad yall stayed safe in that wreck. Could’ve been very bad it sounded like
We already have a DC to DC charger which takes the power from the alternator to charge our batteries.
We built this wind turbine out of curiosity
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That's a cool concept and great implementation! Not to be a downer, but I bet a larger alternator would be more efficient, but probably wouldn't net nearly as many clicks and views. 😊
However, if you built it into the top, probably ducted for safety and since your "wind direction" while moving would be constant, then I like the idea that it could work while parked. Maybe a ducted fan/generator that you could swivel while stationary.
Exactly what I came here to say. A good alternator would have worked better…. But when you factor in the amount of drag you’re adding with this you may as well just add a second belt driven alternator rather than this goofy looking fan that only works when the vehicle is driven anyway. At least an alternator could do much more at idle. And can be done for only a few hundred bucks and some ingenuity.
I built a vswt from a truck ladder rack and runs a car alternator. Planning on putting it back on the truck and making a wind and solar charged electric truck. I posted youtube video of the wind generator.
Somebody needs to try a a helical shape propeller on a windmill on a car
Better, safer and less maintenance to upgrade your alternator to higher charging one. I got a shop that rewired my alternator to almost double the amperage. It does consume more gasoline and is the one drawback but will charge a battery bank easily.
The fact that you made this work shows your talent and skill. Awesome video. 🔥🔥🔥
Really appreciate the support bro. More videos coming soon ✌️
Mad scientist!
Thanks ✌️ more coming soon
re-attache blades so bigger heavier end towards center will get more rpm's great job for people who are traveling in cloudy weather to next camp. 👍
You are creating quite a bit of drag. What is the mpg when you have it running vs using an alternator
Voltage is easy, it's the amps (volts * amps = watts) that's hard and you didn't show any watts being produced on the charge controller screen. I suspect this was a fail.
that blue scc is a pwm. its only advertised as an mppt. try epever, powmr, or srne.
No. This is a click bait video.
Great video bro! We all learned a great deal!
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you need gearbox to get correct RPM to your electric motor
He re-invent's the alternator/generator using a turbulence and drag engine.
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the wind cannot leave behind the fan need free movement
Yes a agree. Larger alt for when driving and a virtual turbine for when parked up to work with solar.
We already have a 250 amp alternator with a Victron DC to DC charger. We made this video to test the theory to see if a motor can produce electricity when it spins backwards.
Keep working on it. You will tunnel your way through it. You are on the right path. 👍
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added resistance = added fuel mileage. Charging of the alternator would have been more efficient and cheaper.
Maybe a a horizontal Magnus turbine would work best in the roof of your Van.
This wind turbine was just a test and we do not plan on using it long term. We may build a more long term one in the future.
I agree 💯 percent, having to face the drag generated with that mounted in front of the vehicle also gives away the benefit
Front grill for fan is missing. Grill is must for safety. Better to build next project. Good job 👍. Dr Baig
Was doing my research into wind turbines for RV's and came across this video. For me I need something that will help charge batteries at night since my solar panels are useless. Wind turbine kits are so inexpensive now and allows me to learn this fun project. It comes with all the parts, and I will attach it to a long pole attached to the ladder.
How many watts it produces?
Don't know where you live...but, in Europe that is completly ilegal and you would be pulled over by the cops asap with a very expensive ticket and probably even with the Van seized for removal.
Since it's designed to be removable they probably wouldn't seize the van.
If a radiator fan could be adapted, and housed in the space between the radiator and grill. This would be a far safer option.
Everything is illegal in Europe. You guys should have never allowed yourselves to be disarmed.
It’s not illegal search it up before you start spitting garbage
We made this video to help inspire other people to build things. We don’t plan on keeping it, but we do plan on continuing to post cool building videos ✌️
I suggested you look at Robert Murray Smiths channel, if you havent he just posted a video on a very similar device that uses a 3d printed magnetic clutch and a cone in place of the prop.. with his channel you need to go back and check out other videos like where he printed the cone or the videos building the mag clutch etc.. in this vdo he used a bicycle generator but it could be upscaled to a larger motor
This is what you come up with if you slept in Physics
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Question: Instead of cutting up a PVC pipe, why didn’t you buy a tabletop fan with metal blades and attach them to the turbine you’re building?
Several other channels have done this.
I really wanted to test the theory to see if it would work. We don’t plan on keeping it, but we do plan on building another one in the future.
@beerrunbus a channel who quit TH-cam a few years ago, installed one on an RV. The noise and vibrations constantly shook the RV. Several others tried it and determined the efficiency loss was a negative
@@Scrambler85 this one did not include any vibrations at all, and it also didn’t really make much noise. But I did feel a slight lag in the acceleration of the van.
Our goal is to continue to build cool things to help inspire other people to do the same. If you have any recommendations on what we should do next, let me know.
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Great initiative! I'm sure you learned a lot a lot doing this project, which is great!
Does it make electricity? It sure looks like it.
Does this concept produce any benefit over using the electrical system that comes on the van? Unfortunately not. Any electricity produced by the turbine is off set by the extra fuel you will consume.
I encourage you to research the scientific method and apply it to some tests to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of your system. I'm sure you will find it interesting.
I see now how Biden could become president.
There's another invention that can do the same job but better. It's called an alternator.
First law of thermodynamics..
Very creative and resourceful. Not really practical, but creative and cool that you made it work!
Thanks dude. We just wanted to test out the theory if it will work. I plan on building a better one that will not be visible from the outside.
Who's going to tell him that motor makes electricity no matter the direction
It is a click bait video.
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Drive fast enough and your van might fly 😂
Literally that’s what I was thinking 🤣🤣
Great concept. Now that you have the turbine on the front of the van, now it's time to get a boost converter so that the input can be from 8-40 volts and the output will be a regulated 12 volts. This way, you don't have to get up to 50+ mph to have it charge your phones. 🥰
I've wondered if there are small turbines that could handle 55+ MPH and dock them in a series between the roof rack rails to capture the airstream the windshield creates. If the size could be kept 3 to 8 inches that would be perfect
You would've made a more efficient, and useful modification adding another altinator.
This idea is so stupid, that I think this vid has to be a prank. First of all this thing is demonstrably inefficient. It increases the fuel consumption of your car just to generate a tiny amount of electric energy... If you missed the physics lessons, just check out google for Helmholtz's "law of conservation of energy". The alternator you already have in the vehicle is certainly much more efficient, although it also increases fuel consumption when it has to deliver electrical energy. Also it is a great idea to mount a saw blade at the front of your vehicle. Pedestrians you might run over will love it!
This isn't as stupid as it might look.
The car wastes energy on wind resistance.
A good designed wind turbine actually can recoup some of those losses without increasing drag.
There were actually cars that used that principle in the past, but it was just too expensive for a small benefit.
It's deflecting the wind resistance already create by the car moving forward. There have already been tested. It can reduces energy by up to 20% in the right application.
You Right and wrong! if we put this behind the front of the Van we lose nothing! its like put an other cooler for the ICE-motor! And i don't understand why EV allready have this for A/C and warm up battery packs on Winters! But this is a silly way to do it and risky! /Mikael
@@mikaelfransson3658 check what the Brazilians have done in there EV car.
I almost called you slow before I watched the video then I watched the video and you’re still slow
interesting concept... robert murray smith channel does a lot of turbine designs among other things, a couple of his ideas like a flat turbine would likely work on the van roof.. Ive never heard of running the motor backwards.. Ive always thought if you put pwr in it spins the motor, spin the motor and it produces power
I honestly wasn’t 100% sure if this was going to work I’m glad they did. Do you plan on building another one that will look much nicer and produce more power in the future. Thank you for supporting the channel. ✌️❤️
@@buildersblueprint I wont be building one at all.. several years ago we tried using large 12v pc fans to charge tool batteries while driving but they didnt make enough juice.. I dont full time so my house battery charges off the alternator with a small solar backup
This was awesome!! I love that you’re always thinking of new things!!!🥰
Yes on rooftop it would
I think it works. mileage with and without the generator will tell if it produces more energy than it uses. With a funnel and a airflow outlet behind the fan, it should work even better.
I 3D printed what you said today im waiting on results,Great suggestion
It will not create more energy than it uses, that's not possible. Otherwise we would produce all of our energy in the world with this system. You cannot gain more energy than you are spending.
Set it up to spin horizon taly
My 10 year old son who has trouble reading just said, " wouldnt it use more fuel when driving?"
Would the wind turbine produce a drag for the vehicle? which would cost it to be less efficient per mile and cost more in gas?
Yes, we did notice a slight drag in the vehicle when we were going 50 mph, but we don’t plan on keeping it. We were just testing to see if the motor would be able to produce electricity.
No no no NO! this increases drag on the vehicle, you cant get out more work than you put in! Your just wasting fuel & making your van more dangerous for pedestrian impact, not to mention how illegal this is.
A DC-DC charger from the alternator would be more powerful & efficient, ffs, im so sick of people sticking turbines on moving vehicles, YOU CANT DEFY THE LAWS OF PHYSICS, all you've done is reduce your driving efficiency
experimentation is cool, but if you're really interested in generating power while you drive. hook up a 2nd alternator to the house batteries. way more efficient than depending on wind power, because that way, you're jumping through more hoops.
Congratulations, you just increased your van's drag and gained pretty much nothing. On top of that, you have now made your car illegal because that's unsafe for pedestrians.
Dear oh dear...
"The phone is charging, this is freaking crazy" What's even crazier is your car has a 12V output, in the cabin, so you can charge your phone without having a diy windmill in front of your van.
This was an understandable idea, but a voltage range of 0 to 12v is actually useless.
The engine of your van aready has a computer regulated high output alternator that will produce a steady 14v (or thereabout) at any RPM, as required to fully charge a '12v' car battery .
A very usefull addition is dual batteries with an isolator so that you cannot discharge the battery that starts the engine. The isolator will automatically prevent damage from a complete discharge of your 'overnight' battery and will automatically charge that battery once you start the engine.
Have you heard about vehicle drag? And check your MPG with and without :) Give you credit for trying it out
We did notice a slight drag when we were going 50 mph. But we don’t plan on keeping this. It was just a test to see if we can get the motor to produce electricity ✌️
Im not familiar with this channel but i yhink its assumed this isnt viable. I hope. In a bizarro world where charging is way more expensive and fuel is way cheaper, this would make more sense. Still worse than a generator
This is called a perpetual motion machine. It is impossible to get more out than you put in. That being said it would work if you are parked heading into the wind.
I would try make car engine like that but i wont be able to get the parts and tools but i would love see you challenge your self to make it, A Car That Runs Off Pure Air Just Imagine. Blessings and prosperity from jamaica 🇯🇲 please continue doing more videos like this
There is no "power of the wind' when you are propelling something through standing air.
All you are doing is creating more drag for the ICE engine or electric motors to overcome and then converting some of that energy back into electrical energy minus the loss of the air turbine.
This wastes energy
Nice video ... can you make a larger turbine with blades that are covered in solar panels so it's a wind solar powered turbine ... I can't make one because I have two left hands ...
Congratulations you made an air diverter that may even push needed air away from your radiator depending on conditions. (Why is my camper overheating?)
I get it, this is for clicks far more than practical. Simple physics or common sense points to the flaw in the idea. My bugger concern is the people that will take this seriously and attempt this resulting in dangerous mishap, tickets/fines, or just best case scenario wasted money to see this does not net any positive electrical return.
would been better to put one those round vertical axis wind turbines between your solar panels or on the front of the car the heat reflecting off the solar panels could have helped run it along with wind when stationary and driving without the drag imo. The one you built seems like its a drag on the car and it doesn't look all that safe.
So did you keep it installed or did you find it wasn't producing enough power to justify itself?
How i wish someone could gift me a home on wheels. Or at a discount to help me in my teaching career.i am a teacher in west Africa(Ghana) who teaches in a deprive village. Having this home on wheels will help me to have more time in the village and stay there to help this school children in their learning career.. thanks
Awsome effort. But, this will increase the air resistance to the vehicle. You are converting gas in to electricity with very low efficiency. If you use this wind turbine while your van is parked in a windy area, it can harvest electricity.
We don’t plan on keeping it. It was just a test to see if we can get it to work.
We plan on continuing to make different types of projects to expire other people to do the same. ✌️
Now that's very Cool , thank you for sharing it 👍👍👍👍👍🤓. SKK .
Find an old summer fan get the props out of it and hook it up u won't have the added weight of the saw blade and it will spin faster !!!!
I could think up a much more efficient design in under a minute and it doesn't have to look goofy or doent have to look like anything at all.
The only wind turbine that makes sense for a van is one to use with stationary, fixed to the roof. The best are the ones you get on boats. Needs to be removable
Why don't you try a cylindrical fan used in the air curtains instead of this type of fan. That can be easily fitted horizontally...
Sorry to say but is would be more efficient to just plug your phone charger into the van directly.
Can you make a video with 300 watt dynamo than engages when you brake? Ie regenerative braking.
Awesome idea. How much energy did you actually produce? Watts?
Looks like you don’t know about electricity. Better ask someone who knows.
LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 power that AC for bout 15 minutes. Please
this is a great project but mind you it is illegal due to the fact when driving the fan spins and if u git some one lets just say its not going look pretty
This is so silly. For $10 you could just get a cigarette lighter transformer
The fact that you made this work shows your talent and skills.
This time if you want, make a dynamo just like the old school bicycles, it touches the tire and produce electricity
Thank you very much. Yes, I thought about something similar in the past, like connecting an alternator to the tire
You can just use the alternator from the engine instead…
Just get a petrol generator,
Works ok but what a stupid place to have it. Place such a device on the roof of your vehicle.
I picture one that can generate wind energy when you are stationary, above the solar.
Then the bolt broke and the saw blade cut his entire arm off as he was testing it could spin fast!
He says its pretty awesome, when in fact it’s a waste of time, components and energy.
Niebezpieczne dla pieszych podczas wypadku :| / Dangerous for pedestrians in an accident :|
itsAHazardForPedestriansAndOtherVehicles.
Of course the propelor increses the vehicle consumption.
Brilliant, basically a diesel powered generator!
Anything for veiws to make payments on the motor home.
I am a teacher and my kids will love this stuff! Love to get their minds thinking, thanks for inspiring!!
Thanks Homie the goal was to inspire young people to build similar projects like this. Really appreciate you watching. 🙏
If you’re a teacher and you think this is a great idea (actually increasing drag thereby using more fuel to inefficiently generate electricity rather than use the alternator) then you really need to find a new profession.
Seriously.
You probably think adding an alternator to an electric vehicle to recharge the batteries as you drive is a great idea too.
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And no-one told you about a good DC-DC?
We have a 250 amp alternator with a Victron, Orion, DC to DC charger. We decided to make this video to learn more about different ways to produce electricity wile off grid we don’t plan on keeping it
A higher capacity alternator will probably do more for your system.
We have a 250a alternator with a victron dc to dc charger on board. We built this just to see if a motor can produce electricity when it spins backwards
Think sepost to add that so call wind terbine on the roof side since that put so low that pumper block the wind as sepost to add on top to get more flow and no wind that block it it's free flow bottom no why it's less
Completely agree with you. This was just a test to see if it would actually work using an electric motor. We plan on building another one in the future.
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awful time-cost/power efficiency
Aero dynamics RIP
You can't generate more than you are putting in with this model atleast
We are not planning on using this permanently. We only built it to see if it will work.
We did notice a slight lag in the acceleration of the vehicle, when the windmill was installed.
The idea behind this was to see if the a wind turbine can actually work and produce electricity and it did work.
It doesn't make any sense. All the power is still coming from the engine, only losing efficiency.
This was just a test to see if it would work. We don’t plan on keeping it, but we do plan on building a more efficient one in the future that is not visible from the outside.
nice idea . the thing i imagined do this idea can be don to recharge electric cars or any kind of electric vehicles ?
NO!!!
That is coming from burning fuel! No gain there, much more efficient to use the car alternator , still at cost of extra fuel.
Completely agree we felt a slight drag when we were on the interstate. We don’t plan on keeping this wind turbine. We just built it to learn more about different ways to produce electricity. Thanks for watching.✌️
Okay that is awesome! Also exciting in terms of potential for alternative use energy and vanlife.
Thank you I really appreciate the comment. We plan on making any more videos like this. Thanks for watching.✌️
its dangerous with that sawblade
Only 8 watts not worth the headache