Taking a motor from an old exercise treadmill and some PVC pipe, John Park constructs a wind-powered generator. The electrical power may not be enough to get your home off the grid, but the great thing about the project is how it explains in simple terms the technology involved in turning wind into free electricity. Download the PDFs for these projects at www.makezine.tv
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how do you keep the wires from getting tangled or spun up when the wind generator moves with the wind?
its not free electricity u had to buy all that crap but thats a cool project nice vid
nice i want one
use a bita gutterdin!
hey how many amps does that treadmill motor use and put out, lol sorry for the bluntness of that question. but also how many amps do the battery put out and how many amps does the blender need. wow that is all amp questions haahahah thanks in advance.
@ramikhair Just one, but you need an inverter to switch it to AC and convert it to 220V. However, just one battery doesn’t hold enough energy to run a whole house for very long, so (oversimplifying slightly) you’ll need to figure out how much energy you use (usually given as kWh on your electrical bill) and how much energy each battery holds and then get enough batteries to hold that much energy. The problem is getting enough batteries, and enough wind generator and wind to keep them charged.
@ramikhair I believe 10 batteries for a 120v , a 220 is when you use two breakers of 20. So I guess 20 batteries?
@ramikhair If you can’t do simple division I don’t think you should be messing with house wiring.
Awesome vid. Both because this is something just about anyone could make and because he made someting that didn’t incorporate an Arduino!
how many 12volt battreis to have a 220 volt to run my home ???
I think this is by far the best, ‘easiest’ DIY wind gen on youtube. Many thanks for sharing.
awsome =)
Very nice..! Good job..! Lots of people will have this idea and save money from paying high bill from electricity.. Thank you..!
Great demo
Viva!!!!!!!
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If you have the tools to drill the holes into the flywheel…why not use the mounts you get from old cieling fan blades. I’m actually looking into doing something like that. The Bridge Rectifier is brilliant…one of my hold ups was how to use any motor as a generator rather than having to buy an alternator or something else like that. Thanks for the great vid…this is very useful.
using the pvc pipe to make props is genius! kudos to whoever thought of that!
my and mine dad build a smaller one and now an can charge mine cellphone with wind power.
thanx john
Great job on this video!
how much of these would you need to power a home?
It’s OK for a science project but is not going to create real power of any value or hold up to hard storm winds. At several hundred RPM, these homemade blades will vibrate and wobble severely.
Damn, just shows others make things seems so difficult…. this is still ‘difficult’ but there’s less BS to deal with to get it done.