How Much Power Do Wind Turbines Generate
Building a generator?
I’m looking into building a vertical axis wind turbine to generate power for lights in a greenhouse, but I can’t find much about building the actual alternator part to turn the rotation into electricity. If I have two disks, one with a series of copper wire coils and another with corresponding magnets, and the one with magnets is spinning over the copper coils via wind power, how do I harvest the power generated from the process? How should the magnets be oriented? What exactly do you call this kind of generator also, I feel as though if I had a name for it, I’d be able to find more info… Thanks in advance
And please don’t tell me to go buy a motor or alternator…
I ma not sure why you have settled on a disc architechture for your generator but if you would like to get a lot of insight into this arena go to
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/hsc/hsc/electric_motors5.html
This discusse a lot of the theory behind a printed circuit motor which is used in high frequency response servomechanisms for low rotary inertia. (you I am sure have been told several times that “a motor is a generator is a motor”. It may give you the infoo that you need.
It shows how to arrange discs of magnets on either side of the printed circuit.
How Much Electricity Does a Wind Generator Produce ?
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