First: Steve is right, if you want to build a good, predictably-performing wind generator, you've gotta go scratch. Plenty of parts that can be pulled from the...
Hi Steve, Been a LONG time since I posted anything to the group. I think this is special. For the last month I have been working with a real live Physicist in...
Myron, I bought a used floor scrubber/buffer to use for my floor. It developed some problems so I had to take it apart. I found that the motor is a 390 VDC...
I appreciate all the input regarding my idea about salvaging motors and/or parts. If I understand correctly, you're saying that motors that use magnets don't...
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:21:49 -0500, myrontokachi <myrontokachi@...> ... -- Steve Spence Renewable energy and self sufficiency http://www.green-trust.org ...
I'm sating you won't usually find appropriate materials to build an axial flux. Most ceiling fans I have seen don't have magnets, they only have coils. On Wed,...
It has always been my understanding that nearly any motor will put out electricty BUT most motors or alternators have to be spun so fast that most are...
Hello Myron; I would avoid metal, and especially sheet metal, for any sort of wind turbine blades. It fatigues very fast, and will fail rapidly, sending ...
These may make electricity (many will not), but they are not axial flux alternators. On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:57:17 -0500, kevin.mahaney ... -- Steve Spence ...
In the US, all the ceiling fans I've ever installed or fixed use self-excited coils connected to the AC mains to provide the magnetic field. There's no static...
The key is that Permanent Magnet (PM) motors "may" be usable. Those with coils both as field and armature magnets "can" be used to generate power as well, but...
Steve, You were right. He wasn't using the ceiling fan motors, as is. I finally got around to watching the series of videos that I found on youtube. The...
I am very happy to find this group. I am setting out to build by the magniwork plans. Is it possible to use G% magnets instead of the G3 called for in the...
if by magniwork you mean the free energy scam, that's not on topic of this list. If there is a axial flux wind turbine with the name magniwork, then please...
I've recently acquired some magnets that were removed from microwave ovens. They are round with a hole in the center and roughly 2.5 - 3 inches in diameter....
how is speed controlled on these machines in larger stronger winds.? The water ones have a tail that directs them OUT of the wind - has anyone developed such a...
The difference my dad had started working on was a turbine but used a funnel to direct wind and compress it to the push side if the turbine while blocking the...
There is a windmill meseaum in Texas up around the panhandle area that might be of interest. Jim P ... From: Steve Spence To: axialflux@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
The windmill museum is on 4th street in lubbock,tx. I spent a whole afternoon there last summer. Everything from historical to technological Brent Dragoo ...
Hello, can someone please direct me to a document that clearly explains the need for load control with a small wind generator. I know it is required, but I...
... No doc needed: When windmill exceeds it's rated speed, it comes apart. Add load, to match current wind speed, everything is fine Introduce wind gust, keep...
Hi Mike; Hugh Piggott's book "Windpower Workshop" covers it, and my book "Homebrew Wind Power" covers it in depth. In the classes I teach, we spend 2-3 hours...
Simplistic put down!! My friend would say, so, you have a heater connected, wind gust, higher speed, heater will draw more current, more load automatically, so...
Hi, We've got a local proponent of wind power pushing the use of wind for hydrogen production. Don't really know what to think. He's trying to set stuff up for...
I see two things when I see hydrogen schemes: 1. Someone who slept through science class 2. Someone who hopes others slept through science class ... -- Steve...
The rpm's go up faster than the load power drawn .... and i don't think nichrome resistance is constant through its temp range. To: axialflux@yahoogroups.com ...
Hello Dan, thanks, so I wasnt dreaming that I had seen it before.... "so crucial and fundamental to small wind turbine design,". Could you please send me, or...
