Constructing an effective wind plant at low cost, around an automotive alternator is a deceptively simple idea. many have tried, very few get it right.
This one works a treat, and features "tilt up" helicopter style speed regulation, no gear box and no slip rings to bring power down the pole.
The blade is hand carved with a simple profile, from a stick of straight, unknotted pine.
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Wind plant on tower.
West Wind 5 Kilowatt turbine on 24 meter tower. Munglinup Beach caravan park, near Esperance W.A.
48 Volt, 120 Kilowatt hour battery bank.
3 x 5 Kilowatt PSA Inverter / chargers, synchorized in three phase.
Christopher Darker and Martin Sheppard at Bulka Station, near Fitzroy Crossing. W.A It was so hot up here we could hardly hold our tools !
32 x Uni-Solar US-64 panels.
120 Kilowatt hour, 48 Volt battery.
3 x 5 KW PSI Inverter / Chargers,
synchronised in three phase.
Peter Knight's all steel "Starship Entrancement", sits on top of an ancient cliff overlooking a huge, ancient salt lake ( Lake Margaret ), 100 Km S.W of Kalgoorlie, in the dry Arakken heartlands.
If you stood on the foredeck of "Entrancement", 100 metres above the plain, at a never ending, brilliant white salt lake, big enough to land a Harkonan mother ship, you would understand how appropriate her name !
Esperance farmer Grahame Styles, proudly holding the "Stick" of the Roaring Fourties, model T wind plant. This is the correct size blade to propel a typical 60 to 80 Amp Automotive alternator to full power ( 1000 -1200 Watts ).
Two Roaring Fourties at different tower heights can be seen in the background at the rustic, rural, resarch institute.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Roaring Fourties is a unique, home grown wind plant, based around a common or garden medium power, automotive alternator.
It was developed in frustration, at the pletora of overpriced, under engineered garbage, flooding the globe from the United Mistakes of Hysterica, and Pee Pulls Republic !
It is very cheap to construct. Around $400, plus of course a few weekends of tinkering.
The machine is deceptively simple....And paradoxically extremely advanced !
Lord Dark Star. West Beach, W.A. Displaying US-42 and US-64 Advanced Amorphous panels. Milestones in the development of P.V technology.
Why do I come back to this place ?
A new dimenture in time and space ?
Nay ! I will teach thee of the Sun,
for the will of my Master's are as one.
Fistly cast thy eye around,
the band of the rainbow plays no sound,
yet there within it's etheral glare,
a virtual reality is laid bare !!!
Munglinup Beach.
Ace mechanic , Martin Sheppard contemplates the 5 Kilowatt Westwind turbine, prior to erection. The plant room can be seen 100 metres in the background.
When the tanker driver arrived from South East petroleum, just as we were finishing the installation...He realized he was "terminated" !
His unique starship is made entirely from metal / foam sandwich, cool room panels, for ease and speed of assembly. We installed two systems for Richard, one for this home, and one for his mothers , adjoining it.
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