Homemade Turbine Generator
Homemade Turbine Generator vs. Commercial
There isn’t much argument really as to which one is better to incorporate as an energy saving equipment. However, you have to consider your purchasing power in choosing between these two options. Although, commercial wind turbines are not really that expensive, it still wouldn’t hurt to save a few pennies by building yourself a home made wind turbine. After all, it isn’t like you have to be equally compliant as industrial and commercial structures in terms of standardized equipment.
Although, building your own home made wind turbine may take some time due to your limited experience as opposed to the complexity of the project.
Basic Components
In building your home made wind turbine, you will need blades for the wind turbine, a motor to provide energy supply to the turbine, the body assembly, a turbine hub, and the tower.
These parts can be bought from hardware stores wherein a wide variety of every kind is available. From there, you can play it out by customizing different parts and incorporating them into the whole project. As for the motor, you have to make sure that the motor you purchase is of good quality and has a reasonable period of warranty. This is to ensure that you will not carry the burden of wasting time, money, and effort in maintenance and repairs. Of course, you may also opt to have the motor home-made as well. It is really up to you but it would be more practical to have the raw materials purchased to ensure the quality of first-hand materials and minimize investigation on equipment malfunction.
Body assembly is simply a plate that can be situated between adjacent turbine blades. It is the circumferentially-curved body that has an engaging surface to make contact to a root of a turbine blade. This positions the turbine blade axially within the body assembly and seals the blade. A connector is attached to the body assembly to separate the turbine blades. A mini disk which separates the turbine blades is attached to the connector.
This is only part and parcel of the complex process of building a home made wind turbine. Of course, there are ways to make the equipment as basic as possible, depending on your needs. One of the products that you will find in the Internet consists of three fiberglass or carbon fiber blades, wherein each blade are structurally strong due to the extra glass or carbon that reinforces the fiber layers.
It is also important to constantly paint the homemade wind turbine to provide protection from the direct sunlight. Exposing the equipment to direct sunlight may cause or add to the deterioration of the product in the long run.
Learning the Ropes
It is important to know how these wind turbines basically work so that you will get a picture of how to exactly build your home made wind turbine. As previously mentioned, the turbine consists of blades, motor, a body assembly, and the tower. The blades are responsible for the absorption of energy from the wind to convert them into rotational forces. These rotational forces then drive the motor or generator. The forces are then converted into electricity which is the by-product that the equipment aims to achieve.
Benefits
Two obvious benefits from having home made wind turbines are the heavily reduced expenditure on purchases, which is the short term benefit, and cut costs on electricity bills, which addresses the long term advantage. Both ways, you are able to save money and at the same time, contribute to making a greener environment and help rebuild a more suitable existence for mankind.
Disadvantages
It was mentioned earlier that building these wind-turbines on your own would entail more time than you could have initially thought. Although building your very own could save you more money as compared to purchasing a commercial wind turbine, the complexity of building a home made wind turbine could actually be more tedious than expected. Not only will have you to dedicate your time and effort to carefully study the basics of building the machine, you will also have to double everything up to actually make the time and money worthy of building the equipment on your own.
