Definitely too large for that pole. I have since taken it down and am working on a smaller, more appropriately sized VAWT.

Sounds really neat! I look forward to a video about it.

Just yesterday we had 15 mph winds. Wish I had a turbine up.

​@@justtinkering6713 I wish :) We would like to see your situation too

The motor they are using here is a gimbal motor so it is a low kv motor. It's a good choice. I use the exact same motors in my wind tunnel testing.

@@hellothisismax Interesting. So how is the efficiency?

@@mustafadut8430 I have no idea how efficient these motors are, I've never tried to measure it.

I just put a link in the description. There is no coil holder designed for this; it's just the turbine and mount.

Thank you very much for your kindness.

Sure.

I just posted it on Thingiverse. www.thingiverse.com/thing:6717893

That CF rod must be doing its job.

It is just demonstrating an idea. I wanted to see if the bird wing idea would turn a stepper motor. We didn't have much wind, but it did manage to move the motor shaft.

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I'm sure it would if it had a generator. I intended to drive an air pump with it, but took it down because it was much too large for that pole.

I had to walk away from it. When I watch it, it just sits there. You will notice that it watched me go into the shed, and when it thought I wasn't looking, it started to move. But I tricked it with a camera on a tripod. :-)

Yep, it’s a cheeky bugger alright!you can definitely see a change in its behaviour when it thought you were out of in of sight and had no clue what it was up to. I think it broke the string on purpose though.

I'd be too worried about destroying them. :-)

I’m guessing you used PLA, if so heat is definitely a bad idea! I’m would suggest a smaller layer height. say .10mm. Could also try printing the blades on their ends in one piece. I would use a good size raft to reduce the risk of the blade falling over mid print.

There's more going on inside than we think. Maybe increase the diameter a little, to open it up more.

I'll give it a try. I'm hoping to take it to the beach this weekend for better wind. The forecast calls for single digit winds for the next week.

If you look at the right side of the turbine, the metal hardware sticks out a bit more as it speeds up. So there must be some pitching action going on.

I did not record that data.

I'm sorry, I do not see a comment to reply to. (Other than this one)

I don't have any data. I just wanted to see if it would work.

Thank you for pointing out the typo! It is supposed to be 180 mm. The correction is now noted in the description.

Did I say magnets in the stator? My mistake. Thank you for the correction.

One possible problem with a step up transformer is that the transformer is like a short circuit until the turbine is spinning and working at frequency. So it acts like a brake. Maybe there could be a switch of some sort that connects the generator when the turbine is up and running.

It seemed to clean up a bit when I spun the turbine a little faster, but yes, it looks more triangular.

I see 7 neodymium magnets mounted radially. This doesn't have those stamped steel claw like pole pieces that you see in alternators.

I see no videos on your channel. Please clarify

Funny you should mention that because I was going to try gearing it down to overcome the cogging and then use a boost converter to feed the battery. 🙂

Howdy!

@@MickEMaus3000 my replies to posters wasn't working, I thought I was blocked. So that's the reason for the test

I don't think it is a washout. I'm working on another one. I think this little one had too low a solidity and was not set up very well (I didn't balance it very carefully). It spins okay, and has no problem starting. And I think it would have produced more power with more windings on the coil. (It did not help that we had very little wind for weeks though)

@@MickEMaus3000 Looking forward to your next video in that case.

@@Rob-vw3if The next one is going to be a bit more substantial; it may take a while. 🙂

@@MickEMaus3000 hopefully you’ll give some little snippets of your progress along the way

⁠Thanks @@justtinkering6713 I’m not familiar with the forum and no luck after a Google - any chance you could post a link?