Just wondering if I can take the motor and blades of a house fan and turn it into a wind generator. Is it possible? And what are the steps to doing it?
Related posts:
- I want to get a wind turbine to help power my house?
- Q&A: can a wind generator power a central house air conditioners?
- AMETEK 40v DC Motor – For a Wind Generator
- stepper generator (alternator) free energy make a wind generator
- Building A Wind Generator
Sure if your end goal is trickle charging a AAA battery over the course of a month… house fans and wind turbines have two very different, if related, operating parameters. A fan is made to operate at very high rotational velocities powered by a 110 volt line, while a wind turbine operates at lower speeds and potential energies.
If you want a wind generator, get something that’s designed to be a wind generator.
No.
The motor in a fan is the wrong sort to use as a generator. For a generator, you need a permanent-magnet motor; but the motors used in fans are shaded pole induction motors. This kind of motor uses no permanent magnets, but relies on the power supply to provide both magnetic fields.
It wouldn’t really output any real amount of power. I recently built a small scale wind turbine with the schematics from http://www.earth4power.biz and it does the trick nicely. It cost about $200 in parts and I assembled it over the weekend. I get about 80% of the power I need for my house off of this, so this would definitly be a more practical approach.