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Plans for Building a Wind Power Generator in the form of a Savonius Rotor Windmill. No welding or casting required, however welding is recommended for one part. 1000 Watts Average in 20MPH Wind, your results may vary. Adaptive Design and Document by Brad Hunter - Pittsburg CA - All rights reserved. Please feel free to share this document in its entirety. Contact me directly if you like at: brad@homesopen.com This document is intended to share the process for building a wind power generating windmill. Specifically, a Savonius rotor. Just a quick reference for the basic types of vertical axis wind turbines: http://www.homesopen.com/wind/verticals.pdf

We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It's a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase ac, rectified to dc, and fed to a charge controller. The magnets spin with the wind, the coils are fixed, so no brushes or slip rings necessary.

Green-Trust.org and Woodhenge.org on Discovery's Science Channel "Invention Nation" Aired on December 17th, at 10pm Eastern time. The Science Channel is found on both cable and satellite TV. Check out http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/... You will see show hosts Chris, Nobu, and Micah learning to build a 1000 watt wind turbine from scratch, which helps power our off-grid home. More information on our wind turbines can be found at http://www.green-trust.org, http://www.woodhenge.org and http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ax... Get the Wind Power Workshop, by Hugh Piggott, to learn how to build your own wind turbine as seen on our Science Channel episode.