Windmill Generator – Wolfbernz

My first thought this morning is to wish my best friend in the world, Trina, Happy Birthday 🙂

I am going to leave work early today and we are just going to have some fun doing whatever it is she wants to do. Maybe an afternoon movie – that’s always fun. Then dinner and some good wine with friends… Yep that should do it 🙂 Hopefully it won’t rain and we can enjoy the pool that would be nice too.

Second though this morning. I am starting to wonder if I should continue Top Sites on BlogDumps it seems as though many have lost interest, not sure why… it really started out with a lot more people joining in and then it just fell off Maybe everyone has more to do and they have a hard enough time keeping up with just blogging I am not sure. I guess I will decide later this week whether to continue this or not, Any Thoughts?
Maybe change things up a bit?

I am off to do my chores on the farm and then off to work I only have a couple hours to do this morning and then it’s off to have some fun.

I finished my second windmill it is up and running I haven’t had this much fun since we blew up the science lab in school… LOL I have all the wires into the building and I am now building the control panel.

Here is a photo of the two in the air.

Here is a short video we shot with a cell phone ( they don’t give you much video time) from the lift we use to get up in the air and work on them. I will get a better video when they are both moving and use the video camera. The motor you hear is the lift running, the blades make hardly any sound at all.

Have a great Tuesday
Wolfbernz

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As I woke up this morning I heard what sounded like a lot of wind and a small airplane landing out side my window…LOL

I put the wind turbine we’ve been working on in the air last night when the wind was low. This morning it is spinning so fast you can’t see the blades! I don’t know what the voltage is yet I haven’t gotten dressed and gone to the shop to put a meter on it. But when it was on the ground on my test pole, at that speed it was averaging about 175 volts… Scary especially that close – but with it in the air I feel better not being so close.

Second thought! I need to get the long ladder out and add some guide wires to the “free standing pole”… right free standing, Ha! I had better get this done or it might take flight to the next farm… hehehe

I took a couple more photos so you all can see it and I will get a picture of it in the air (it was dark when it went up last night, not good for photos ) and post it but for now I have got to go up in the air and add the wires.. This is a great day for me I actually have my first windmill generator up and running! I am going green and I won’t have the high electric bill either! My second one is already in the works I hope to have it up soon 🙂

Wind Turbine Generator — The almost ready to put in the air wind turbine - this is in the shop on a testing pole.

PMA Generator for Wind Turbine — This is a close up of the PMA Generator I'm using for my Wind Turbine

Wind Turbine motor bracket and tail peice — This is the wind Turbine PMA motor bracket and Aluminum diamond plate tail - everyone keeps saying it looks like something from a Harley Shop LOL

Pneumatics for turning the wind turbine out of the wind — I've use a couple pneumatics so I can turn turn on the compressed air, grab the tail and turn the blades out of the wind when I'm working on the turbine or when the winds are too high.

Closeup of the pneumatic system in testing stages

Happy Tuesday
Wolfbernz