Angle the magnets 10° to 12° degrees , and you should have long straight magnets about one inch long and 1/4 inch wide , yes I know that you like spaghetti , And I like those trucks of yours , I got a 67 K-20 and a 78 C-10 , and where did you come up with a cool name like off grid , it wasn't me was it , you are welcome , I'm watching your videos as I find them
I came up with 10 to 12° degrees by looking at the original rotor that came out of the alternator in the first place , see how the electro magnet angles , I put a protractor on it , you can do the same thing , that's why an alternator rotor doesn't cog , and the reason you can't stop yours from cogging is because those round magnets are too big , you need 1 inch long 1/4 inch wide straight neodymium magnets turned at 10 to 12 degrees , and you can use the same shaft that just came out of the alternator , those pieces press off in a hydraulic press and they make ring neodymium magnets that magnetized the same rotor as you have , just takes two magnets , one pointing North and one pointing South and you got a PMA , Do you want me to build you one ? I'm on my 5th PMA build and the first 4 work great
@@jimthomas777 If you can build a cog free PM I will pay you for it. You must be able to spin with thumb and forefinger with as little effort as a standard. 😀
@@veggitarianredneck , OK I'll get started on it , The 4 PMA's I built cog , but it only takes 2 foot pounds to turn them and if you have a 5 or 6 foot diameter blade span , that goes down to ounces , because I can spin them with my hand already , but I will do my best on a cog free one for you
Work in a industry where they throw alternators away like it’s nothing and been wondering what I can do to recycle em and you sir gave me some inspiration to put a couple of these on my land
Thanks for sharing this video and information. 👍yup I clicked 👍👍👍an subscribed just discovered your channel today. Some topics I’m interested in learning about. So. Will be binge watching just a little while 👀👀👁️👁️
It seems that leaving the electromagnetic brushed rotor in the alternator would be advantageous. There is no cogging if the rotor is not energized. If you monitor power output you could adjust the rotor energizing current using an arduino or similar such that the rotor current is just enough to maximize power output for the given wind conditions.
You are describing Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), which makes VERY good sense to implement on a wind machine using a car alternator. This is because without it, the power curves of the turbine and the alternator actually _diverge._ MPPT would modulate the alternator field so that, within limits, its output more closely follows the power coming from the turbine, obviously boosting efficiency. Definitely a good idea if offgrid406 can implement it. If this is done with an Arduino or some other microprocessor as suggested, then additional controls can also easily be added, such as field shutoff in no-wind conditions and plant shutdown in dangerously high winds.
@@Inflec and the load itself plays a role... maximum energy transfer versus maximum efficiency... still, it is the only way to use an alternator. power increases on the cube of the wind speed. fixed flux of a PM magnet can only ever supply so much, and can only load the turbine down so much. "the power curves diverge"... yep. whereas the externally excited field winding is easily controlled to use the alternator as a generator, and a brake as the power extracted is proportional to field current and that can be varied to suit the wind speed and keep tip speeds to some ideal velocity ratio for every wind speed. dumped into a resistor and used to boil water, seems to be the best use of wind power ive found so far.
As an auto tech, I DESPISE chevies. But they have an alternator, 10Si i belive, on tonnes of vehickes over the years. Anyways, the way it kicks power/charging on n off, woukd be perfect, and eliminate all the weird wind pressured switch thingy you got goin on. Its what makes it a popular swap for hobby n sport vehicles. Plus comes in different windings/amps and clocking/orientations.
I made an alternater windmill. I hooked it up to the battery and the battery is turning the windmill. What do I need to stop the battery from turning from turning the windmill?
You will need a diode in between to stop the power feedback. Plus I'm confused why battery power is spinning the alternator. That usually takes electronic to phase it just right.
I just got a 28 foot portable building. I want to go totally off grid, eventually. This workshop will have a backup where I can plug into the house, if needed. What I am trying to to is make my own off grid workshop to see in a controlled environment, what is needed to go off grid. Since we live in a city that owns their power plant, maybe build up to an amount of generation where I can sell excess power to the city. We have a program for that here. The idea is if people generate power, the need for larger municipally owned power plants will be farther down the road. My idea is that a "million" small generating plants can equal one or more of those government financed short lived towers, and the people can be in control of it. Giant results with a community of small, privately owned generation plants. Private enterprise at its best.
am trying to make mine this time around i was to import a wind turbine motor and the rest from China until i started watching .I have a question what will happen if you don't switch off when the wind stops blowing?My fear is will it damage anything. good video bro may God bless the work of your hands
If not switched off it will put about a 50 watt continuous drain on your batteries. Which I suppose if you have crazy amounts of wind it wouldn't matter much. Thanks for the love, and may God bless you too.
"Cogging" refers to the phenomenon of some generators to exhibit a snapping action in their drive shafts as they are rotated. This is caused by the field poles (the magnets) aligning with the corresponding poles of the power producing coils (armature or stator) as the machine revolves. This produces increased turning resistance which the wind turbine must overcome in order to produce power. It is a problem at low wind speeds where the turbine might not be able be able to provide enough torque to push the alternator or generator through these points of additional resistance. Therefore the generator itself must be designed in such a way to minimize this phenomenon or provision must be made in the field controls to reduce the magnetism in the machine to minimize cogging in low winds. If you've ever spun a bicycle generator with your fingers and felt the shaft seem to want to hold onto certain positions as it is rotated, that's cogging. As to the problem of always being hooked up; this refers to what happens if the field winding of an alternator is left energized all the time. Again, this is mainly a problem in low or no-wind conditions. Obviously the machine cannot produce power without wind to spin the turbine. Under this condition a field circuit energized full time would drain the batteries. So to avoid that problem, provision must be made to disconnect the field in those conditions. (It would also need to be disconnected in high wind conditions where the wind plant is shut down to prevent damage.)
instead of making the altenator tilt back with the wind just put a spring on a rod with a flap on it ..and then put an electromagnet on the positive to the field ..this will pull the rod back away from the field ..or just use a solenoid switch to break the contact from the positive to the field...?
@@Cybergrip1- The best alternators are the ones which require an external regulator. Most of this type would be from cars made during the 1960s and early '70s.
Carey, I have enjoyed your whole series on an alternator powered wind generator, but this one is the first one I watched. So I am putting my comments here. I have been thinking about doing this too. In my version one would let the original alternator output directly drive the field. In my version, you tap off the 3 phase, going to the diodes and run those 3 wires down the pole. When the 3 phase gets to the ground one can turn it into a DC voltage with another rectifier from another alternator or parts store. The higher voltage 3 phase requires a lighter diameter of wire going down the pole. By driving the field with the alternator's original output one does not need the windspeed switch to control the field, which simplifies the mount of the alternator significantly The field is powered whenever the alternator turns and is not powered when the alternator stops. The alternator will make power whenever it turns and there is no "kick in" speed where the a field switch needs to close. Because 3 phase is run down the pole and then rectified, there is no need for any switches, since the batteries on the ground can never drive current up the pole to the alternator. Thanks for showing the use of an alternator. We agree they are the best source for wind generators, inexpensive, very well-engineered, and last a long time.
Thank you for the kind words. You might want to check out another video of mine I posted a!most three years ago where I basically did kinda what your explaining. I used small neodymiums glued onto the core to tickle the field current and get the ball rolling. You can run three phase to your Batts with this method. Basically a self exciting field, only that it kicks in sooner. Here's the link th-cam.com/video/_l4DqnocLyU/w-d-xo.html Also I will be revisiting this method in future videos
I spent a week cutting corrugated iron roofing sheets, and always wore eye protection... except for the last four-inch cut... I won't make that mistake again: a shard smacked me straight in the eye, and bruised it for a week. Now I buy safety specs and leave them all over my farm so there's always a pair nearby.
Best video to just wire a Chevy alternator to my batteries? I don't want to do any modifications to the alternator. A Chevy alternator already has a voltage regulator in it.
At a minimum you would want to have a wind-activated switch wired into the field circuit of such an alternator to turn the field circuit off in low/no wind conditions to prevent it from draining the batteries in such conditions. Additional controls to augment the built-in regulator would also be highly desirable.
I don't get why so many fight with this so fervently. Just use the alternator as-is. send the power down to your battery bank, run a small wire from your bank, through a voltage sensitive relay (available on Amazon for $20-$30, depending on the size of your alternator...it opens or closes the exciter circuit to start and stop charging), up to your alternator's exciter circuit...and you're done. Enough with the 'permanent magnets' (trying to work around the exciter circuit issue)...just use a VSR to turn the charging 'on-and-off'! If you live where you can set up a few 6' diameter windmills, you can power your whole house REALLY AFFORDABLY (assuming you use gas heat and appliances, along with DC lighting)...all you have to 'invert' for is refrigeration!
can you send me a link to a youtube video showing how to do what you are saying my pg&e bill is off the chain, pg&e has a monopoly on us i live in the slave state of CA they say its there way are the highway
I think it's because there is a loss of efficiency in doing so, especially in the smaller turbines. As the turbine gets bigger the losses are less consequential.
Hey I have a really sweet idea that you should test out and see if it’s possible. It relates to this video in a way. Pls reply so I can send you my info
Nah we all do sketchy stuff that's why we can go off grid, fix our own cars ,build our own homes 👊👊👊👊 can't play by all the rules all the time never get anything done
He says slightly modified it not. Everybody has a lathe and all the equipment you have to do this you should really change the description to heavily modified.
Who is running around telling people you can't do this? Literally everyone I know who knows anything from science class would say yeah they should work just fine If you don't screw it up.
as soon as you remove the field windings, you lose all the benefits of these. suddenly you have an output that fluctuates with the input, is load critical, and is limited in its range. a permanent magnet can only produce so much "voltage", so many "amps". it has a fixed amount of flux. it cant be altered. they cog when the wind is too slow, and need brakes when its too fast. the field windings let you use the alternator as the brake, dumping power at the rate dictated by the load and the windspeed. rather than waste power, you extract it. you can size the blades so at full power, it can only rotate at a certain RPM when the wind is say... 90km/h. instant speed regulation, no need for brakes... if the blade area is too small, great. you want a generator that can easily stall your blades. means its extracting all the power it can. if the blade area is too big you need brakes and that extra blade area is pointless. wasted on brakes. for what? a few extra watts when the wind is slow? not worth it unless your average windspeed is that low... power increases on the cube of the velocity. this is letting all that power go to waste as it can only apply power to a load at the rate dictated by its magnetic flux. like all permanent magnet setups.
I knew that there was a way despite all the other search results (except this one) said it was not a good idea to use a car alternator for a wind generator!!!! Laugh in all their lying faces LOL!!
Yeah no shit, had to sweep the floor to make clearing. Like I mean sweep a pile of nuts and bolts, sockets, hoses etc. Out of the way. John John's a slob.
Just put up a video showing how to carve a blade for these. They are easy to do, check it out th-cam.com/video/B0Fe_UPVjHA/w-d-xo.html 😀
Angle the magnets 10° to 12° degrees , and you should have long straight magnets about one inch long and 1/4 inch wide , yes I know that you like spaghetti ,
And I like those trucks of yours , I got a 67 K-20 and a 78 C-10 , and where did you come up with a cool name like off grid , it wasn't me was it , you are welcome , I'm watching your videos as I find them
I came up with 10 to 12° degrees by looking at the original rotor that came out of the alternator in the first place , see how the electro magnet angles , I put a protractor on it , you can do the same thing , that's why an alternator rotor doesn't cog , and the reason you can't stop yours from cogging is because those round magnets are too big , you need 1 inch long 1/4 inch wide straight neodymium magnets turned at 10 to 12 degrees , and you can use the same shaft that just came out of the alternator , those pieces press off in a hydraulic press and they make ring neodymium magnets that magnetized the same rotor as you have , just takes two magnets , one pointing North and one pointing South and you got a PMA ,
Do you want me to build you one ?
I'm on my 5th PMA build and the first 4 work great
@@jimthomas777 If you can build a cog free PM I will pay you for it. You must be able to spin with thumb and forefinger with as little effort as a standard. 😀
@@veggitarianredneck , OK
I'll get started on it ,
The 4 PMA's I built cog , but it only takes 2 foot pounds to turn them and if you have a 5 or 6 foot diameter blade span , that goes down to ounces , because I can spin them with my hand already , but I will do my best on a cog free one for you
instablaster.
Work in a industry where they throw alternators away like it’s nothing and been wondering what I can do to recycle em and you sir gave me some inspiration to put a couple of these on my land
U can scrap the copper inside
Have you built any?
How is the wind generator working? I’m interested 👍🏻
You have my attention. Going now to watch your old stuff.
Thanks for sharing this video and information. 👍yup I clicked 👍👍👍an subscribed just discovered your channel today. Some topics I’m interested in learning about. So. Will be binge watching just a little while 👀👀👁️👁️
How are you determining when to kick in the field, can you show your controller
It seems that leaving the electromagnetic brushed rotor in the alternator would be advantageous. There is no cogging if the rotor is not energized. If you monitor power output you could adjust the rotor energizing current using an arduino or similar such that the rotor current is just enough to maximize power output for the given wind conditions.
Exactly what I've been saying.
You are describing Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), which makes VERY good sense to implement on a wind machine using a car alternator. This is because without it, the power curves of the turbine and the alternator actually _diverge._ MPPT would modulate the alternator field so that, within limits, its output more closely follows the power coming from the turbine, obviously boosting efficiency. Definitely a good idea if offgrid406 can implement it. If this is done with an Arduino or some other microprocessor as suggested, then additional controls can also easily be added, such as field shutoff in no-wind conditions and plant shutdown in dangerously high winds.
@@Inflec and the load itself plays a role... maximum energy transfer versus maximum efficiency...
still, it is the only way to use an alternator.
power increases on the cube of the wind speed.
fixed flux of a PM magnet can only ever supply so much, and can only load the turbine down so much.
"the power curves diverge"... yep.
whereas the externally excited field winding is easily controlled to use the alternator as a generator, and a brake as the power extracted is proportional to field current and that can be varied to suit the wind speed and keep tip speeds to some ideal velocity ratio for every wind speed.
dumped into a resistor and used to boil water, seems to be the best use of wind power ive found so far.
If I just squint my eyes none of the sparks will go in my eye 👍
The trusty old "safety squint's", been there.
As an auto tech,
I DESPISE chevies.
But they have an alternator, 10Si i belive, on tonnes of vehickes over the years.
Anyways, the way it kicks power/charging on n off, woukd be perfect, and eliminate all the weird wind pressured switch thingy you got goin on.
Its what makes it a popular swap for hobby n sport vehicles. Plus comes in different windings/amps and clocking/orientations.
I made an alternater windmill. I hooked it up to the battery and the battery is turning the windmill. What do I need to stop the battery from turning from turning the windmill?
You will need a diode in between to stop the power feedback. Plus I'm confused why battery power is spinning the alternator. That usually takes electronic to phase it just right.
I just subscribed to your channel rang the bell icon So I can’t miss any of your content very very interested in making my own windmill generator
Thank you for subscribing. I will be putting on more content soon. Waiting for work to slow down lol.
Them are some sweet jams my dude!
Sounds like 70's porno music
I just got a 28 foot portable building. I want to go totally off grid, eventually. This workshop will have a backup where I can plug into the house, if needed. What I am trying to to is make my own off grid workshop to see in a controlled environment, what is needed to go off grid. Since we live in a city that owns their power plant, maybe build up to an amount of generation where I can sell excess power to the city. We have a program for that here. The idea is if people generate power, the need for larger municipally owned power plants will be farther down the road.
My idea is that a "million" small generating plants can equal one or more of those government financed short lived towers, and the people can be in control of it. Giant results with a community of small, privately owned generation plants. Private enterprise at its best.
Read about hugh piggott, he basically did just what you are talking about.
@@veggitarianredneck Thank you, I will look his project up. I am certain we will have basic similarities of completion, but possibly different routes.
Ya I am Indian organic farmer
I like your video
Thank you, that's very encouraging 😀
Enjoyed your video lots of good ideas on power generation thanks
am trying to make mine this time around i was to import a wind turbine motor and the rest from China until i started watching .I have a question what will happen if you don't switch off when the wind stops blowing?My fear is will it damage anything. good video bro may God bless the work of your hands
If not switched off it will put about a 50 watt continuous drain on your batteries.
Which I suppose if you have crazy amounts of wind it wouldn't matter much. Thanks for the love, and may God bless you too.
@@veggitarianredneck so if the application was a water generator as opposed to wind it wouldn't matter as much?
@@CaseClosedManiack exactly
@@veggitarianredneck thanks for all the Intel. It was easily digestible and great for my own project research
Whats cogging, why is hooked up always not ok for alternater, etc pls explain these challenges thanks.
"Cogging" refers to the phenomenon of some generators to exhibit a snapping action in their drive shafts as they are rotated. This is caused by the field poles (the magnets) aligning with the corresponding poles of the power producing coils (armature or stator) as the machine revolves. This produces increased turning resistance which the wind turbine must overcome in order to produce power. It is a problem at low wind speeds where the turbine might not be able be able to provide enough torque to push the alternator or generator through these points of additional resistance. Therefore the generator itself must be designed in such a way to minimize this phenomenon or provision must be made in the field controls to reduce the magnetism in the machine to minimize cogging in low winds. If you've ever spun a bicycle generator with your fingers and felt the shaft seem to want to hold onto certain positions as it is rotated, that's cogging.
As to the problem of always being hooked up; this refers to what happens if the field winding of an alternator is left energized all the time. Again, this is mainly a problem in low or no-wind conditions. Obviously the machine cannot produce power without wind to spin the turbine. Under this condition a field circuit energized full time would drain the batteries. So to avoid that problem, provision must be made to disconnect the field in those conditions. (It would also need to be disconnected in high wind conditions where the wind plant is shut down to prevent damage.)
Use stater sensors to make sure you get a stable field and completely embed the magnets in resin.
instead of making the altenator tilt back with the wind just put a spring on a rod with a flap on it ..and then put an electromagnet on the positive to the field ..this will pull the rod back away from the field ..or just use a solenoid switch to break the contact from the positive to the field...?
Certainly seems like it would be much easier. I have thought of such a thing, and maybe it needs to be explored some more in the future.
Why can't you use a regular alt. Why does it have to be modified?
Some alternators will work as is.
@@veggitarianredneck Which ones?
@@Cybergrip1- The best alternators are the ones which require an external regulator. Most of this type would be from cars made during the 1960s and early '70s.
i like how you are protecting your face@3:30
Carey, I have enjoyed your whole series on an alternator powered wind generator, but this one is the first one I watched. So I am putting my comments here.
I have been thinking about doing this too. In my version one would let the original alternator output directly drive the field. In my version, you tap off the 3 phase, going to the diodes and run those 3 wires down the pole. When the 3 phase gets to the ground one can turn it into a DC voltage with another rectifier from another alternator or parts store. The higher voltage 3 phase requires a lighter diameter of wire going down the pole.
By driving the field with the alternator's original output one does not need the windspeed switch to control the field, which simplifies the mount of the alternator significantly The field is powered whenever the alternator turns and is not powered when the alternator stops. The alternator will make power whenever it turns and there is no "kick in" speed where the a field switch needs to close. Because 3 phase is run down the pole and then rectified, there is no need for any switches, since the batteries on the ground can never drive current up the pole to the alternator.
Thanks for showing the use of an alternator. We agree they are the best source for wind generators, inexpensive, very well-engineered, and last a long time.
Thank you for the kind words. You might want to check out another video of mine I posted a!most three years ago where I basically did kinda what your explaining. I used small neodymiums glued onto the core to tickle the field current and get the ball rolling. You can run three phase to your Batts with this method. Basically a self exciting field, only that it kicks in sooner. Here's the link th-cam.com/video/_l4DqnocLyU/w-d-xo.html
Also I will be revisiting this method in future videos
Nice work sir
Please what is the height of ur wind generator stand, I mean the pole
Its 20 feet high. Not as high as it should be
Good idea 👍 ❤
406. Your in Montana. I live off grid. Trying to turn gas generator into windmills.
You in Montana too?
@@veggitarianredneck yep near cascade. I'm in the mountains completely off grid.
A table to work on would do wonders Lol!😆
Hell yes lol!
If he keeps grinding without eye protection he will need to diy a cane to walk with when he gets blinded by metal particles!
I'm getting better about eye protection I promise
Who are you? Osha? 😆 eye protection is for sissies. 😆 just kidding
I spent a week cutting corrugated iron roofing sheets, and always wore eye protection... except for the last four-inch cut...
I won't make that mistake again: a shard smacked me straight in the eye, and bruised it for a week.
Now I buy safety specs and leave them all over my farm so there's always a pair nearby.
I'm pretty sure eyes grow back like fingers and toes, so he's be fine.
Same. Please wear safety glasses so you can continue to make video's and keep your pristine eye sight.
Best video to just wire a Chevy alternator to my batteries?
I don't want to do any modifications to the alternator.
A Chevy alternator already has a voltage regulator in it.
At a minimum you would want to have a wind-activated switch wired into the field circuit of such an alternator to turn the field circuit off in low/no wind conditions to prevent it from draining the batteries in such conditions. Additional controls to augment the built-in regulator would also be highly desirable.
I don't get why so many fight with this so fervently. Just use the alternator as-is. send the power down to your battery bank, run a small wire from your bank, through a voltage sensitive relay (available on Amazon for $20-$30, depending on the size of your alternator...it opens or closes the exciter circuit to start and stop charging), up to your alternator's exciter circuit...and you're done.
Enough with the 'permanent magnets' (trying to work around the exciter circuit issue)...just use a VSR to turn the charging 'on-and-off'! If you live where you can set up a few 6' diameter windmills, you can power your whole house REALLY AFFORDABLY (assuming you use gas heat and appliances, along with DC lighting)...all you have to 'invert' for is refrigeration!
Exactly!!!
can you send me a link to a youtube video showing how to do what you are saying my pg&e bill is off the chain, pg&e has a monopoly on us i live in the slave state of CA they say its there way are the highway
Very interesting, thanks
Dear lord, swivel mount with a 50 amp in line dc mcb.
Wow, they got some good weed out where your at
try motorcycle flywheels... good magnets, ready made fields, lots in junkyards.... install in Chrysler alternator housing...
the start winding mod ? put a 12v globe on it, it will burn as soon as alt turns with enough force it cuts out like a starter in a old car.
I've had so many Eye injuries from Grinders & Welders it creeps me out seeing you work without a shield or goggles.
Nice safety glasses
can a car alternator become water proof?
I suppose it could , but why?
@@veggitarianredneck to use it like wind mill or water wheel.
Would make better sense to have the alternator and associated mechanics enclosed in a cowling to protect everything from the elements.
why wouldn't you just use a chain or belt to the alternator as opposed to having the alternator flying around in the wind?
I think it's because there is a loss of efficiency in doing so, especially in the smaller turbines. As the turbine gets bigger the losses are less consequential.
Nice video
Consider using a round speaker magnet. Maybe two.
Hey I have a really sweet idea that you should test out and see if it’s possible. It relates to this video in a way. Pls reply so I can send you my info
I would love to hear it
@@veggitarianredneck do you have an email I can send the stuff to you
@@bsc96 glowbugmartin@gmail.com
@@veggitarianredneck I sent u an email. Pls check it out and see what u think about this project. Thank you!
There's a video of a guy who replaced the electromagnetic coil in the alternator with one big permanent magnet instead of many small magnets.
This one
th-cam.com/video/vp44tW1VDGg/w-d-xo.html
I have the same pair of safety glasses lol 😆
Lol, thanks for not giving me crap about it.
Nah we all do sketchy stuff that's why we can go off grid, fix our own cars ,build our own homes 👊👊👊👊 can't play by all the rules all the time never get anything done
He says slightly modified it not. Everybody has a lathe and all the equipment you have to do this you should really change the description to heavily modified.
Offset each 120°
Who is running around telling people you can't do this? Literally everyone I know who knows anything from science class would say yeah they should work just fine If you don't screw it up.
It was a popular theme on all the usual wind generator forums 10 plus years ago. I always knew it couldn't be right.
Safety dude! Safety! Wear goggle and gloves when constructing. or...maybe I am just a whoose.
That seems like too much work you can just buy a 5000 to 8000 W generator From Amazon for $100-$450
Please post a link to these cheap generators producing up to 8kw....
do not use your saw table as a work surface! oops it was still plugged in....click.....oops.
as soon as you remove the field windings, you lose all the benefits of these. suddenly you have an output that fluctuates with the input, is load critical, and is limited in its range. a permanent magnet can only produce so much "voltage", so many "amps". it has a fixed amount of flux. it cant be altered. they cog when the wind is too slow, and need brakes when its too fast.
the field windings let you use the alternator as the brake, dumping power at the rate dictated by the load and the windspeed. rather than waste power, you extract it. you can size the blades so at full power, it can only rotate at a certain RPM when the wind is say... 90km/h. instant speed regulation, no need for brakes...
if the blade area is too small, great. you want a generator that can easily stall your blades. means its extracting all the power it can. if the blade area is too big you need brakes and that extra blade area is pointless. wasted on brakes. for what? a few extra watts when the wind is slow? not worth it unless your average windspeed is that low...
power increases on the cube of the velocity.
this is letting all that power go to waste as it can only apply power to a load at the rate dictated by its magnetic flux. like all permanent magnet setups.
Have the light in your face, not on your back
Darwin and you have an appointment.
I knew that there was a way despite all the other search results (except this one) said it was not a good idea to use a car alternator for a wind generator!!!! Laugh in all their lying faces LOL!!
I have the solution to the timing problem (cocging) u call it..
What is it?
at least get some safety glasses
I'm bad about that
Ya well you showed everything but the actually turbine... Hate when they do that click bate
Better patent this before someone else does
Lol, you flatter me
Someone needs to clean their goddamn shop
Yeah no shit, had to sweep the floor to make clearing. Like I mean sweep a pile of nuts and bolts, sockets, hoses etc. Out of the way. John John's a slob.
It's not at 45° 🤣
Pleaseeeeeeeeeee never ever allow the sound of drilling metal or scratch of glass into your channel! I cannot subscribe at this time.
Good point, I hate that too. I think I'm getting better with that now.
Dude ware a mask crazy
I'm not that ugly am I?
Cant see shit
Your video is too dark
I always appreciate feedback, thanks
so your title is bullshit