Posted by admin | Posted in Build Wind Turbine | Posted on 10-09-2009
Tags: diy, energy, green, how to build home wind turbine, solar, wind
Learning how to build a homemade wind turbine became important to our family when we first started looking to buy a wind generator to run our off gird home. The price of 1000w models needed to run our renewable energy system cost nearly $4000 including the tower. We had to even assemble it ourselves. We figured there must be a better way.
Our solar panel array just wasn’t big enough to run our home and we figured a large wind turbine would add to our power supply enough to meet the increased demand of 3 children growing up in a mostly normal home.
What did we need?
· 1000w of power production
· 40 foot tower
· Could we build a homemade wind turbine?
We decided to look at the option of building our own, as we said when we saw the price of new ones. The problem was that no simple plans existed to do just that. All of the wind generator plans we encountered called for complicated layout and even more welding than we cared to pursue. What we needed was a simple set of plans.
None existed so we decided to make our own.
Our homemade wind turbine project took us over 10 years to complete. Trying to find a source of cheap parts that we could put together with relatively simple tools was very difficult. Everyone seems to always want to complicate things in order to keep their share of a very large business sector. The renewable energy field has grown substantially over the past few years and most manufacturers simply didn’t want anyone building their own wind generator. I guess we can understand that.
But, not everyone can afford $4000 for the system we needed. We know we couldn’t. So we went to work to design a system that could be used by anyone. We even learned how to consistently provide a wind turbine blade design that met the simple tool- easy to learn criteria.
Do you want more information?
Learn how to build a Homemade Wind Turbine. The plans are easy to follow, require simple tools only and no previous experience. It did take us over 10 years to put together our testing and research so that the average person could build their own, but we have still done our best to keep the cost reasonable, under $30.
Our family began living off the grid in 2001 and we have never looked back. Learning how to build a homemade wind turbine is the fastest way to get started living off the grid.
How To Make Wind Turbine at Home
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