Green-Trust.Org & Woodhenge.Org building wind turbines
August 7th, 2012 | 
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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 www.treehugger.com 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 www.green-trust.org, http and tech.groups.yahoo.com Get the Wind Power Workshop, by Hugh Piggott, to learn how to build your own wind turbine as seen on our Science Channel episode.
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With 4 hours or so of 15 mph winds daily in winter, less in summer, this unit produces approximately 800 kWh’s per year.
Hello
I love this video
and i was wondering about the average windspeed in the area this wind generatos is located?
And how many watts the wind generator generates every year?
Your projects are great! : )
i came here from instructables (dot) com .. DIY 1000 watt wind turbine … xD
cool
I enjoyed watching this one.
Hello, Liked the video. On Earth Day I won a green design contest for my home energy system the RoofMill. Have a look at my home wind turbine videos of installing and running Hybrid Energy Systems. Friends and Subscribers Wanted. Later ,
Peace, Sam
The three phases are connected, but not in series, just together at one end. the other ends of each phase are brought down to a 3 phase rectifier. More information on our website (in the description).
Hello,
I am unfamiliar with the wye connection that they are using. I have googled it with little success on an understandable explanation. Could someone explain it to me? It sounds like the just connected the wiring of every 3rd coil and then put that into series with each other? ex. bundle 1, then 2, then 3? Is that really all there is to it? I am making a wind turbine right now. Any help would be appreciated.
It’s been rerun at least 20 times since on discovery and hgtv channels. Just recently again in the last 2 months.
i haven’t seen anything about this show since this season aired. they never repeated them and after seeing the ‘conspiracy theory’ episode on global warming i know why. cleaning the air is way too easy, and there’s too much money to be made on endless research and carbon trading. this show showed too much D.I.Y. stuff that the establishment had it pulled off the air.
400 piv, 100 amp, email me for particulars.
what are the specs on the rectifying diode and where can i get it
just FYI – Rare earth magnets can be salvaged from some electronics like … hard drives. They’re smaller, but there
LOL, hey Steve I just read the previous post and it made me giggle, I meant to tell you congrats on the Invention Nation spot it was pretty kool to see you and Jim on Planet Green but you should have gotten more face time. Good luck to you and hope Green-Trust and Woodhenge all the best.
It’s about as common as copper.
That’s not what rare earth means. rare earth elements are the elements with atomic numbers 57 through 71. The lanthanide series. Neodymium is 60
well if theyre rare that implies theyre non-renuable. so he is using up a resource and thats therefore not sustainable
why not?
wait what? did he just say “rare earth magnets”? thats not very sustainable is it
You have to get it directly through him. At least that’s what a letter from him to some guy said (the some guy posted it in a few forums)
I’ll PM you the Author’s email and the page that I found the info on k? ^_^
have you found the book yet ,i would like to have one as well. im a bit of a packrat…
turns per coil mostly. rpm yes, but battery voltage holds the output. as the amps flow, battery voltage slowly increase.
A couple of questions…how do you determine the voltage? Is it a function of turns per coil or RPM or both? Also if a helical turbine were used and the PMG were mounted in a horizontal arrangement, would that affect it much?
Nope! Uber-strong Neodymium magnets are actually pretty cheap!
Really inspiring, although I’ll probably use just a simple DC motor for my first turbine. Do you have more comprehensive details on the method to make the alternator?