Showing posts with label homemade windmills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label homemade windmills. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2010

The best Homemade Windmill instruction manual

To be perfectly honest I had no clue where to start when I wanted to understand how to build a homemade windmill. I mean I knew that it would save me money and that it was environmentally friendly but how much was the start up costs, what materials did I need and how the heck was I supposed to construct this thing without it falling to pieces?

Homemade Energy

This was the product that gave me all the information I needed. The first thing that I liked is that it will only cost you roughly 100 dollars to make your own homemade windmill using most basic house hold materials (you will probably have to do a little shopping) and it will save you hundreds of dollars off your electricity bill.

Positive tips -

  • Different conditions mean different materials and designs. If you use weak building materials for your turbine in a high wind area then it will obviously break apart.
  • Also understanding the different ratios of size dependent on wind velocity is an important tip that was delivered.
  • Area's to place your windmill, sometimes having it next to the home is not ideal and having many small windmills opposed to 1 big one also may increase energy efficiency.
  • Size of generator needed for specific job you want done for example: 35 volt DC generator is useful for filter pump instead of a 30 volt.
More in-depth source

For a diagram explanation and a link to the homemade energy product I recommend clicking on the link at the top/right of this blog.