Build Your Own Wind Turbine And Save Thousands

Today more than ever folks are looking for innovative and new methods for reducing their overall home energy consumption and their monthly power bills. Recently, home wind power generation is becoming a more popular solution to this problem. Almost anyone can build their own inexpensive and reliable wind turbine with the right information and guidance.

Before you build your own wind turbine, you need at least a high level overview of how these machines work and their major components. Most wind turbines consist of the same few basic parts. None are terribly complicated on their own, and all are inexpensive and easy to find. Assembling these components is fairly straightforward and uncomplicated. However, power output can be negatively affected if any single component isn’t properly optimized to work with the others.

As a basic description the blades - which we're all familiar with - are attached to a hub at the center. Electrical current is produced in the alternator to which the hub is secured. As the blades encounter wind force, their shape causes them to turn the hub. This rotational movement produces current in the alternator which is directed through the wiring into your power system.

The turbine’s blades are shaped into a “twist” that results in a greater pitch at the ends and a lesser pitch as the blade approaches the hub. The blades must also be balances (sort of like the wheels on a car) to prevent wobble.

The alternator most commonly includes magnetic rotors and copper wrapped coils inside a stator. The energy collection or distribution system receives current through wiring from the alternator. This is another example of how, compatibility of parts is important because wire gage, total length of wire run, batteries and inverters can all potentially reduce the system's efficiency (the amount of produced energy that can becomes usable).

The tail vane is attached to a horizontal boom and together these make up the tail assembly. The entire wind turbine is installed onto a pivot point and as wind direction shifts, the tail allows the turbine to turn as needed to maintain maximum speed. To prevent excessive speed that the alternator can't use, the turbine must also turn partially out of the wind when it gets too strong.

These are amazingly reliable machines. The concept and technology have been with us for many years and it is completely achievable to build your own reliable and inexpensive home power generating wind turbine with the right guidance and instructions to follow.

By: Nick Molinar

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